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IPOH, Perak: After a middle-aged couple successfully made two giant niangaos weighing 5kg each last year, they vowed to create a much bigger one this year, with the hope their oversized creation would bring more prosperity in the Year of Tiger.

Every year without fail, 54-year-old gardener Yang and his wife would search high and low in their store room for niangao-making equipment, and indulge themselves in the culinary pleasure.

Yang told Guang Ming Daily a KL businessman placed an order of two large niangaos weighing 5kg each last year.

Realising that luck had been on his side throughout the year, the businessman rang up Yang for another pair of giant niangaos last December.

"I spent a few days studying ways of making it, and decided to use a large iron can as the mould for niangao."

Yang and his wife worked four full days to bring the 20kg giant niangaos to reality. (Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Guang Ming Daily)