Chinese

Ube Tikoy

Adding everyone’s favourite purple ingredient to this Chinese rice cake. Ube Tikoy is a type of Filipino-Chinese rice steamed rice cake called Tikoy prepared with ube flavour and macapuno strips. Tikoy was a staple for us growing up, during Chinese New Year back in the Philippines it was a custom...

Mango Pudding, Lychee and Grass Jelly

Mango Pudding, Lychee and Grass Jelly is an Asian inspired dessert prepared with chilled and cubed fresh mangoes, mango pudding, lychee and grass jelly served with condensed milk and shaved ice. The first time I encountered grass jelly was when I lived in Malaysia, I remember I tried it because...

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Sweet Peanut Nuggets

This Sweet Peanut Nuggets is a simple concoction of glutinous rice flour, sugar and peanuts and it was adapted from the Chinese dessert called “Tang Bu Shuai”, it came from the recipe book that we will be featuring today, Easy Chinese Recipes by Bee Yinn Low. This glutinous rice dessert...

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Dòushā Guō Bing

Dòushā Guō Bing is a type of a sweet non-leavened flatbread folded with oil and sweet red bean paste, it is a variant of the popular Cong You Bing (Minced Scallions Pancake). Though this Chinese bread is classified as a pancake it is made from dough instead of batter. Dòushā...

Almond Jelly

Almond Jelly

Second day of our Chinese week and for today we will be making a cold dessert which is called Almond Jelly. This dish is a traditional Chinese dessert traditionally made out liquid extracted from Chinese almonds (apricot kernel) or sweet Chinese almond which is sweetened and mixed with agar served...