Desserts in Chinese Cuisine
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Article by Jamie Hanson
When you talk about China, you often think about Chinese food and this is because of its strong bonding with food which is famous worldwide. Less popular in the West are the Chinese desserts which is normally an assortment of sweets and snacks, either fruit, soup, pastry or rice based, to complement a tea break. These can also be eaten following the main course or as a snack. Chinese desserts range from simple ones like lcyhees fruits, coconut balls and candied walnuts, to those often served during special occasions such as Fa Gao or Nian Gao, to exotic ones such as bird's nest soup, red bean soup or black glutinous rice soup, eaten hot or chilled or hot with, probably, some 'bings'.
Here are the main categories of Chinese desserts that you should know.
Gao or Kuei are rice-based snacks. They are different from region to region and depending on the type of preparation, the end result may be rather firm or jelly-like, fluffy or chewy in all kinds of textures and shapes. Fa-Gao (Huat Kuih), Tang Yuan, Bai Tang Gao and Nian Gao are different types of popular Gaos.
Bing are baked confections made of wheat flour. They are similar to either the flaky kind of puff pastry (known as 'su' in Chinese) or the short-pastry crust found in Western pastries. Lard is usually used to make bing for a more tasty flavor. The most popular bings are Wife cake and Mooncake red bean paste cake. Similarly, Marry Girl Cake and Sun Cake are equally well-liked too.
In Chinese cuisine, candies are more often than not fruits and nuts, either in the form of paste or whole, mixed into syrup to give them texture and flavor. The sweetening agents used are honey, malt sugar and cane sugar in Chinese candy making. Coconut candy, peanut candy, white rabbit creamy candy, tanghulu as well as dragon beard candy are among the favorite.
The main Chinese sweet dishes also include jellies and they are loved by children and adults alike. Agar is usually used in traditional Chinese jelly desserts, though the use! of gela tin is now become fairly common. Mango pudding, almond jelly, grass jelly and aiyu jelly are some of the famous Chinese jellies dessert.
form. There are endless varieties of types of this form of Chinese desserts and one can often bump into a store in Hong Kong especially, selling exclusively Tong Sui. Most of the soups can be easily prepared which entails boiling (slow, fast or double boil) the ingredients together and can be served hot or cold. Some Tong Sui possess medicinal properties depending on the ingredients used. Candied winter melon, honey or rock sugar are often used to sweeten the soup. Douhua (beancurd pudding in sweet soup), sweet red bean soup, bird's nest soup, mung bean soup, gingko with white fungi soup, peanut soup, sweet potato soup, beancurd skin gingko barley soup and almond soup are some of the popular Chinese tong sui desserts.
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