Chinese buns (baozi or mantou) typically are small bread or bread roll that can be either sweet or savoury and most common methods of cooking these buns are steamed, baked or even deep fried. The resulting bread dough is usually light and fluffy. There are myriad types of buns with …
Agar-Agar Jelly always reminds me of many fond childhood memories of consuming different types of homemade Jelly with lots of different fresh fruits and flavours. There are also many store bought jellies with different colours and flavourings that really have great appeal to young children. Some of my favourites jelly …
There are endless types of doughnuts in all types of international cuisines worldwide. For Chinese doughnuts, the most popular types of doughnuts are: sweet egg-shaped doughnuts in Cantonese cuisine that are deep-fried and then rolled in granulated sugar or powdered sugar while still warm from cooking. This type of Chinese …
When you are on a gluten free diet, naturally you will miss a lot of the popular desserts, baked goods and most of all buns or baos in Chinese. Dim sum baos is no doubt one of my favourites that I miss so dearly. While the combination of pandan (screwpine) …
Matcha is a type of delicately powdered Japanese green tea (Camellia sinensis). The green tea leaves of matcha plant are grown in shades three weeks prior to picking resulting in brighter coloured and nutrient rich green tea leaves. These leaves are steamed, stemmed and de-vined, then stone ground very slowly …
These Chinese egg cakes (also called paper wrapped cakes) and sometimes referred to as mini egg cakes is a type of Chinese pastry regularly served up in Hong Kong and Macau. They are also sold in Chinese bakery shops worldwide. Most of us who grew up in Southeast Asia will …
Mango pudding is widely held as a simple, refreshing and delicious dim sum dessert at yum cha restaurants globally. Traditionally made with fresh mango puree, fresh cream and gelatin then sweetened with sugar. But more modern versions use evaporated milk. It has a creamy and silky rich flavour with different …
Sesame seed balls or simply sesame balls or Jian Dui in Mandarin is a Chinese sweet. They are made of glutinous rice flour and filled with different fillings like black sesame paste, red bean paste, crushed peanuts paste or lotus seed paste (traditional style) sweetened with sugar. They are often …
These Vegan Pandan Coconut Cupcakes are simple to make and delicious treats. Likewise, these cupcakes are remake from a whole cake which often takes much longer to bake in the oven. While, for my gluten free fusion vegan pandan coconut cupcakes recipe. I am using pandan (screwpine) leaves, coconut milk …
Ham Chim Peng or Chinese five spice doughnuts is a very popular Cantonese street food in Malaysia and Singapore. “Ham” in Cantonese means salty, “Chim” means fried and “Peng” means dough or often referred to as bread or doughnut. There are three different types of Ham Chim Peng, namely the …
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