Christmas dinner fruits, chocolate, raisins, and/or pine nuts, known as panettone, followed by "torrone" (enriched with cherries, chocolate, sweets and more), nougat and nuts. In Southern Italy instead of one cake they serve many kinds of marzipan, biscuits, zeppole, cannoli, candied fruits, and fresh fruits. In the last few decades, panettone has become popular as a Christmas sweet all over Italy. Pandoro is also a very popular cake at Christmas and New Year, accompanied by a good Champagne. One typical Dutch tradition is that of 'gourmet,' an evening-long event where small groups of people sit together around a gourmet-set and use their
Nian gao glutinous rice cake eaten primarily for the Japanese New Year. In Korea, "tteok" is a similar rice cake eaten in the country. Varieties are made with glutinous rice are called "chapssal-tteok" (glutinous rice "tteok"). "Tteokguk", a soup dish which uses the "garae-tteok" similar to the Shanghai variety of "niángāo", is traditionally eaten during the Korean New Year. Nian gao Nian gao (also niangao; nin gou in Cantonese), sometimes translated as year cake or Chinese New Year's cake, is a food prepared from glutinous rice and consumed in Chinese cuisine. While it can be eaten all year round, traditionally it is