Wheat free and gluten free food is readily available during the Chinese New Year, a fifteen day celebration of good food, good fun, and good spirits that starts on February 18 this year. Celiac.com offers are large collection of wheat free and gluten free oriental recipes. This includes instructions for preparing "legal" sweet and sour sauce, Teryaki, and soy sauces. Recipezaar.com also offers a great oriental recipe collection, including a recipe for crunchy Chinese noodles. I’m anxious to try it! Your greatest obstacle in celebrating the Chinese New Year is that most soy sauce contains wheat. Click here to read my post that explains how to sidestep that obstacle. Update 2/1/07 Whenevery you read anything about oriental food, you will probably see references to "glutinous rice". This is not gluten as we understand it and is not a problem.

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