Paleo Chinese Almond Cookies

Paleo Chinese Almond Cookies Gluten Free

Chinese almond cookies, also called almond biscuits or almond cakes. Likewise, they make these cookies with almond flour with an almond in the middle on top of the cookies. Commonly found in Chinese bakeries in Hong Kong, Macau and China. As well as in Chinese bakeries or even Asian groceries …

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Black Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls (Mochi)

Black Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls (Mochi) Gluten Free

Black Sesame Glutinous rice balls or mochi is a Chinese dessert. Normally, they make them with glutinous rice flour and water mixture. They can be small or large in size and filled or unfilled, savoury or sweet. In addition, they serve them coated with sesame or nuts like cashew nuts …

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Chinese Egg Tarts (Hong Kong Style)

Chinese Egg Tarts (Hong Kong Style) Gluten Free

Chinese Egg tarts or egg custard tarts (called dan tat in Cantonese) are a type of pastry. Commonly found in England, Portugal, Hong Kong and many south east Asian countries. It has an external pastry crust with wobbly egg custard filling and baked. Likewise, Chinese egg tart is the much …

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Thai Salmon Fish Cakes

Thai Salmon Fish Cakes Gluten Free

For my gluten free Thai salmon fish cakes recipe. I am using Salmon to give a very distinctive taste to the fish cakes. Plus snake beans, spring onions and I marinated the fish cakes with a spice paste. Then I pan fried these Thai salmon fish cakes to perfection. I …

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Sweet Potato Glutinous Rice Balls (Ondeh Ondeh/Onde Onde)

Sweet Potato Ondeh Ondeh Gluten Free

Sweet Potato Ondeh Ondeh is a conventional rice cake. They normally make them with glutinous rice flour and mashed sweet potato. Likewise, they also named them onde onde. Besides, they are very popular in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (called keplon). They usually flavour these small round rice balls with pandan. …

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Pandan Chiffon Cake

Pandan Chiffon Cake Gluten Free

Pandan chiffon cake or pandan cake also called sponge cake or chiffon cake, is a soft and fluffy textured cake. Made with vegetable oil, sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs plus flavourings. Likewise, pandan chiffon cake originated from Malaysia and Indonesia. Most well-liked Asian flavour is pandan and coconut and …

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Tapioca Cake

Tapioca Cake Gluten Free

Tapioca cake or cassava cake is one of the many beloved Nonya desserts in Malaysia. Amongst the many nonya (fusion of Chinese and Malay cuisines) desserts. Besides, they also call tapioca cake, Kuih Bingka Ubi in Malaysia. It is not hard to understand why it is such a favourite. Because …

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Pineapple Tarts

Pineapple Tarts Gluten Free

Pineapple tarts or often called nastar in Indonesian and Malaysian languages, are small bite size pastries. Likewise, they either crown or pack these tarts with pineapple jam. Besides, they created pineapple tarts in South East Asia. They consider these tarts as “festive cookies”, as they usually eat them during the …

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Creamy Coconut Red Bean with Black Rice

Creamy Coconut Red Bean with Black Rice Gluten Free

This sweet Chinese dessert, Creamy Coconut Red Bean with Black Rice is very popular in China and South East Asia. I remember very fondly from my childhood my mum used to make this dessert on a regular basis. Enjoyed greatly by both our family and friends. In my gluten free …

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