Ask any Chinese person and you’ll most likely be told this: bak kwa, which means “dried meat” in the Hokkien dialect, is synonymous with Lunar New Year, and it is almost a crime not to have this ...

Pineapple tarts are good and love letters are, well, lovely — but it ain’t Chinese New Year if you aren’t bingeing on bak kwa. These glistening squares mottled with blackened char marks are sweet, ...