The Chinese New Year celebration, also known as the Spring Festival, lasts two weeks every year and starts this year on Jan. 25. Food is a prominent part of the festivities, and dim sum is one popular ...

In Chinese tradition, qingming is a period in early April when people visit the burial sites of loved ones who have passed away. They clean the headstones, offer food to the deceased, and say hello.

“A lot of people go to the spa to steam their face,” Joe Rong, the man behind Joe’s Steam Rice Roll (136-21 Roosevelt Avenue), says amid clouds of rice-scented steam. “I steam my face every day.” ...