Ma Lai Gao (Chinese steamed sponge cake) is a very popular dim sum dessert in yum cha restaurants globally. The direct translation from Cantonese is Malay Sponge Cake. Especially prevalent in Hong kong and Guangdong province in both yum cha restaurants and traditional tea houses. Likewise, CNN has even listed …
Chinese Black Sesame Cake is a popular Hong Kong (Cantonese) Style cake. Traditionally made with water chestnut flour and black sesame paste or puree and typically steamed not baked. For my gluten free Chinese Black Sesame Cake, I am using gluten free self-raising flour, finely ground black sesame seeds. And …
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 …
Sweet red bean paste is a nutritious and delicious cooking ingredient used in many Chinese sweet desserts and pastries. Red bean paste or adzuki bean paste is a sweet bean paste that is dark red in colour and normally made by boiling adzuki beans and sugar with water until the …
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. …
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