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 …
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) …
Beef and Leek Dumplings is a modern variation of Chinese dumplings or jiaozi. Dumpling is symbolic of Chinese cuisine. Typically a customary Northern Chinese food eaten during Chinese New Year (also called Spring Festival). As the semi-circular moon shape of the Chinese dumplings resemble olden time Chinese ingots made of …
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 …
Red bean paste or adzuki beans paste is a dark red sweet bean paste used in many Chinese desserts and pastries. This paste is also widely used in Japanese and Korean cuisines. Red bean paste buns (dou sha bao in Mandarin) is one of the most popular Chinese desserts, these …
Wonton is a classic traditional food that originated from Northern China and dated all the way back to more than 1,000 years ago. Wonton is also called “wantan”, “wanton” or “wuntun” in Cantonese and “huntun” in Mandarin. Wontons were particularly popular during the time of the Tang and Song Dynasty. …
These Homemade Gluten Free Wontons Wrappers are very popular traditional food staple in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Hence, with the esteem dumplings, comes the creation of wontons, albeit looking very similar, they are different in thickness and shape. They normally make wonton wrappers into square shape and …
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 …
Potstickers are a type of Chinese dumpling called “jiaozi” in Mandarin. Chinese has been consuming jiaozi since the Song dynasty (960 – 1280 A.D.). There are numerous types of Chinese dumplings available depending on how they are cooked. They are mainly divided into 3 groups: Boiled dumplings, called “shuijiao”; steamed …
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