Chinese desserts
Chinese desserts () are sweet foods and dishes that are served with tea, along with meals are
sweet
Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones ...
foods and dishes that are served with
tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and norther ...
, along with meals
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Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine encompasses the numerous cuisines originating from China, as well as overseas cuisines created by the Chinese diaspora. Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine has influenced many ot ...
. The desserts encompass a wide variety of
ingredients commonly used in East
Asian cuisine
Asian cuisine includes several major regional cuisines: Central Asian, East Asian, North Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and West Asian. A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, usually associated with a sp ...
s such as powdered or whole
glutinous rice,
sweet bean pastes, and
agar
Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from ogonori ('' Gracilaria'') and "tengusa" ('' Gelidiaceae''). As found in nature, agar ...
. Due to the many
Chinese culture
Chinese culture () is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago. The culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia and is extremely diverse and varying, with customs and traditions varying grea ...
s and the long
history of China, there are a great variety of desserts of many forms.
Chinese desserts
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Annin tofu
Annin tofu or xingren tofu (), sometimes translated as almond tofu, is a soft, jellied dessert made of apricot kernel milk, agar, and sugar. It is a traditional dessert of Chinese cuisine, and Japanese cuisine. A similar dessert is blancmange.
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Aiwowo
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Banana roll
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Black sesame roll
Black sesame roll is a refrigerated dim sum dessert found in Hong Kong and some overseas Chinatowns. It is sweet and the texture is smooth and soft.
Preparation
Preparation of the dessert begins with drying a thin layer of black sesame paste. ...
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Black sesame soup
Black sesame soup (sesame ''tong sui'') is a popular Chinese dessert widely available throughout China. It is typically served hot. In Cantonese cuisine it takes the form of tong sui, or sweet soup (similar to Western pudding), with greate ...
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Bingfen
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Chao hong guo
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Coconut bar
Coconut bar is a refrigerated dim sum dessert found in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southern China and in overseas Chinatowns. It is sweet and has a soft, gelatin-like texture but is white in color rather than translucent like gelatin. It is sometimes ref ...
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Crystal cake
Crystal cake () is one of the traditional desserts in Weinan city of eastern Shaanxi, China. It has more than 800 years of history. Crystal cake was first invented in Xiagui during the Song Dynasty, then it spread throughout the region.
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Custard tart
Custard tarts or flans pâtissier are a baked pastry consisting of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard.
History
The development of custard is so intimately connected with the custard tart or pie that the word itself comes from Anglo- ...
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Douhua
Douhua () is a Chinese sweet or savoury snack made with very tender tofu. It is also referred to as doufuhua (), tofu pudding, soybean pudding or, particularly in northern China, tofu brains ().
History
Tofu is thought to have originated in ...
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Dragon's beard candy
Dragon's beard candy ( zh, t=龍鬚糖, s=龙须糖, p=lóng xū táng, first=t or Chinese cotton candy is a handmade traditional art of China. It is a traditional Chinese confectionary similar to floss halva or Western cotton candy, which ca ...
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Double skin milk
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Egg tart
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Egg tong sui
Egg tong sui is a classic ''tong sui'' (sweet soup) within Cantonese cuisine, essentially a sweet version of egg drop soup. It is considered a more traditional and home-style dish in China, since it is rarely if ever served at any restaurants. ...
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Eggies
An egg waffle is a spherical egg-based waffle popular in Hong Kong and Macau, consisting of an eggy leavened batter cooked between two plates of semi-spherical cells. They are usually served hot, and often eaten plain, although they may be serv ...
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Eight treasure congee
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Fried ice cream
Fried ice cream is a dessert made of a scoop of ice cream that is frozen hard, breaded or coated in a batter, and quickly deep-fried, creating a warm, crispy shell around the still-cold ice cream.
Origin
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Funing big cake
Funing big cake () is a type of cake found in Funing County in the Jiangsu province of China. It can be served as a tea cake or it can be fried.
History
Funing big cake can be dated to 2,000 years ago. It is also known as jade belt cake. Ea ...
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Fried milk
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Ginger milk curd
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Grass jelly
Grass jelly, also known as leaf jelly or herb jelly, is a jelly-like dessert eaten in East and Southeast Asia. It is created by using Chinese mesona (a member of the mint family) and has a mild, slightly bitter taste. It is served chilled, wit ...
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Guilinggao
''Guilinggao'' (), also known as tortoise jelly (though not technically correct) or turtle powder, is a jelly-like Chinese medicine, also sold as a dessert. It was traditionally made from the ''gao'', or paste of the plastron (bottom shell) fr ...
File:Ginger Milk Pudding.jpg, Ginger milk curd is a hot dessert that originated in Shawan Ancient Town of Panyu District, Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province in southern
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China. Its main ingredients are ginger, milk, and sugar.
File:GrassJellyBlocks.jpg, Grass jelly
Grass jelly, also known as leaf jelly or herb jelly, is a jelly-like dessert eaten in East and Southeast Asia. It is created by using Chinese mesona (a member of the mint family) and has a mild, slightly bitter taste. It is served chilled, wit ...
is a jelly-like
Gelatin or gelatine (from la, gelatus meaning "stiff" or "frozen") is a translucent, colorless, flavorless food ingredient, commonly derived from collagen taken from animal body parts. It is brittle when dry and rubbery when moist. It may also ...
dessert that is prepared with '' Mesona chinensis''.
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Hasma
Hasma (harsmar, hashima) is a Chinese and widely Central Asian dessert ingredient made from the dried fatty tissue found near the fallopian tubes of true frogs, typically the Asiatic grass frog (''Rana chensinensis''). Because of its whitish a ...
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Huangqiao sesame cake
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Ligao Tang
Pear-syrup candy, also known as lígāotáng () or líqīnggāo (), is a traditional medicine and confection from eastern area of the Jiangnan region of China. It has a crystal clear colour and can be used to help relieve coughing, reduce sputu ...
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Lotus seed paste
Lotus seed paste is a Chinese dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds. It is traditionally considered a luxurious ingredient.
Production
The process for making the paste is similar to that used to make smooth red bean paste. First, the ...
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Mango pudding
Mango pudding is a very popular dessert in Hong Kong, where pudding is eaten as a traditional British food.
There is very little variation between the regional mango pudding's preparation. The dessert is also found in Singapore, Malaysia, Tha ...
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Malay sponge cake
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Mooncake
A mooncake () is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). The festival is about lunar appreciation and Moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy. Mooncakes are offered between f ...
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Nuomici
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Osmanthus cake
Osmanthus cake (Chinese: 桂花糕;pinyin: guì huā gāo) is a traditional sweet-scented Chinese pastry made with glutinous rice flour, honey sweet-scented osmanthus and rock sugar. It has crystal clear, sweet, and soft waxy characteristics.
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Put chai ko
''Put chai ko'' () is a popular snack in Hong Kong. The pudding cake is palm size and is sweet in taste. It is soft, but can hold its molded shape outside a bowl.
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Pineapple bun
A pineapple bun () is a kind of sweet bun predominantly popular in Hong Kong and also common in Chinatowns worldwide. Despite the name, it does not traditionally contain pineapple; rather, the name refers to the look of the characteristic to ...
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Red bean cake
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Red bean soup
Hong dou tang () is a popular Chinese dish served in Mainland China, and Taiwan. It is categorized as a '' tang shui'' 糖水 (pinyin: táng shuǐ) (literally translated as sugar water) or sweet soup. It is often served cold during the summer, an ...
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Red tortoise cake
''Ang ku kueh'' (; Tailo: ''Âng-ku-kué''), also known as red tortoise cake, is a small round or oval-shaped Chinese pastry with soft, sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet central filling.
It is molded to resemble a tortoi ...
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Rice pudding
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Red bean bun
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Sachima
Sachima is a sweet snack in Chinese cuisine made of fluffy strands of fried batter bound together with a stiff sugar syrup, and of an appearance somewhat similar to American Rice Krispies Treats. It originated in Manchuria and is now popular th ...
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Sugar painting
Sugar painting (糖画) is a form of traditional Chinese folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create two dimensional objects on a marble or metal surface. Melted sugar is carried by a small ladle made by bronze or copper. After it cools, it will be ...
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Sweet potato soup
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Sweetheart cake
A sweetheart cake or wife cake or marriage pie is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, and made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder.
"Wife cake" is the translation ...
File:Chinese sugar painting 01.jpg, Sugar painting
Sugar painting (糖画) is a form of traditional Chinese folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create two dimensional objects on a marble or metal surface. Melted sugar is carried by a small ladle made by bronze or copper. After it cools, it will be ...
is a traditional Chinese form of folk art
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are typically tra ...
using hot, liquid sugar to create two-dimensional figures.
File:Wifecake.jpg, Sweetheart cake
A sweetheart cake or wife cake or marriage pie is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, and made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder.
"Wife cake" is the translation ...
is a traditional Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...
pastry with flaky and thin skin filled with winter melon
''Benincasa hispida'', the wax gourd, also called ash gourd, white gourd, winter gourd, winter melon, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature. It is the o ...
mixed glutinous rice flour and sugar. Coconut, sesame, almond, star anise or Chinese five spice may also be added.
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Tanghulu
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Tapioca pudding
Tapioca pudding (similar to sago pudding) is a sweet pudding made with tapioca and either milk or cream. Coconut milk is also used in cases in which the flavor is preferred or in areas in which it is a commonplace ingredient for cooking. It is m ...
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Tong sui
''Tong sui'' (; ), also known as ''tim tong'', is a collective term for any sweet, warm soup or custard served as a dessert at the end of a meal in Cantonese cuisine. ''Tong sui'' are a Cantonese specialty and many varieties are rarely foun ...
File:Bingtanghulu.JPG, Tanghulu is a traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit.
File:Pumpkin tangyuan (汤圆) with red bean baste and black sesame fillings.jpg, Pumpkin tang yuan () with red bean paste and black sesame fillings
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White sugar sponge cake
White sugar sponge cake (also called white sugar cake and white sugar pastry) is a type of Chinese pastry.
It is made from rice flour, white sugar, water, and a leavening agent.
While it is called a "cake", it is not served as a circular roun ...
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Xi gua lao
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Zongzi
''Zongzi'' (; ), ''rouzong'' () or simply ''zong'' (Cantonese Jyutping: ''zung2'') is a traditional Chinese rice dish made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves (generally of the species '' Indocalamus ...
File:Zongzi.jpg, Zongzi
''Zongzi'' (; ), ''rouzong'' () or simply ''zong'' (Cantonese Jyutping: ''zung2'') is a traditional Chinese rice dish made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves (generally of the species '' Indocalamus ...
is a tradition snack usually eaten during Dragon Boat Festival. Many styles tend to be sweet and dessert-like.Popular Candy in China
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Chinese bakery products
Chinese bakery products ( or ) consist of pastries, cakes, snacks, and desserts of largely East Asian origin, though some are derived from Western baked goods. Some of the most common "Chinese" bakery products include mooncakes, sun cakes (Be ...
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Cuisine
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List of Chinese sauces
This is a list of notable Chinese sauces, encompassing sauces that originated in China or are widely used as cooking ingredients or condiments in Chinese cuisines.
Chinese sauces
These sauces are commonly used as ingredients for dishes in many Ch ...
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List of Chinese soups
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