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) …
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 …
Muffins are a type of bread that are baked in individual muffin pans. They are similar in appearance to cupcakes but without the sweet frosting of cupcakes. Muffins can also be savoury as well as sweet. Muffins are named after “muffe”, a type of German cake or “moufflet”, French soft …
Sorbet is a very popular icy dessert created from mixing water and sugar, classically made with flavouring like fruit juice or fruit puree added. With the popularity of raw and healthy desserts emerging, fresh fruits are often used and refined sugar are excluded. Instead honey, agave syrup or maple syrup …
Almond pudding, also called almond jelly, annin tofu or almond tofu, is a soft, jelly like dessert made of Chinese almonds (also called apricot kernels or apricot almonds, the mellow part within the seed of an apricot), agar-agar powder and sugar. There are two types of Chinese almonds, north almonds …
Steamed prosperity cake or often called fa gao in Mandarin, fatt koh in Cantonese and Huat Kueh in Hokkien, is very similar to cupcake or muffin, but it is steamed instead of baked. The main ingredients used are normally rice flour, yeast, sugar and bright colourful food colouring, then the …
Glutinous rice balls or tang yuan (meaning round balls in soup) is a Chinese dessert prepared with glutinous rice flour and water mixture. They can be small or large in size and filled or unfilled, savoury or sweet and are served in a clear soup broth or sweet gingery syrup. …
Egg tart or egg custard tart (called dan tat in Cantonese) is 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. Egg tart is the much loved dim sum …
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