AP PHOTOS: Move over peanuts, pistachio is the latest trend for Hong Kong New Year treats

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong culinary institution is acknowledging that changing times bring changing tastes and has found a hit in adding American pistachios to the range of flavors in its famed dumplings.

The Kwan Hong Bakery last year began offering the new flavor alongside the traditional peanut and red bean fillings that are the heart of the sweet, deep-fried pastry, which is hand-filled and folded like the wide range of sweet and savory dumplings known in the local dialect as “kok zai.”

Demand is especially strong around the Lunar New Year, which fell on Wednesday, with long lines outside the 46-year-old family-owned business in the city’s Sham Shui Po district.

“We hope that bringing more new flavors to customers would bring in more business,” says Ho Yuet-yin, wife of the bakery’s founder.

The older generation still go for the traditional flavors, but “now the younger people are more picky and we think the pistachio is an excellent new flavor,” Ho says.

Walnuts and macadamia nuts were also considered but ultimately “pistachio is the one which works out well,” said Charles Ng, Kwan Hong’s manager.

Customers enjoy pistachio crispy pastry dumplings outside Kwan Hong Bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Customers wait outside Kwan Hong Bakery to purchase New Year food in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Staff members pack pistachio crispy pastry dumplings at a bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Staff members prepare pistachio crispy pastry dumplings in the kitchen of Kwan Hong Bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

A cat owned by Kwan Hong Bakery is seen in the kitchen of the bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Staff members prepare pistachio crispy pastry dumplings in the kitchen of Kwan Hong Bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

A staff member conducts a quality check on roasted pistachios in the kitchen of Kwan Hong Bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Staff members prepare pistachio crispy pastry dumplings in the kitchen of a bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Ng Kwan-ping, founder and owner of Kwan Hong Bakery, transfers a tray of pistachios in the kitchen of the bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Customers wait in line outside Kwan Hong Bakery in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

Follow the AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)