Lunar New Year begins Wednesday! James Beard Award-winning author Kristine Cho joins TODAY to share her recipes for pork and shrimp dumplings with homemade dough and pistachio pear baked nian gao.

Stir-fried nian gao is a noodle dish rooted in Shanghainese cuisine. It is made of glutinous rice flour compressed into a long stick, then sliced and dried. This dish is also known in Malaysia as ...