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water chestnut cake
Water chestnut cake is a translucent jelly made from shredded Chinese water chestnuts.
coconut pudding
Coconut pudding (also known as coconut bar or coconut jelly) is a chilled jelly made with coconut...
mung bean cake
A cake filled with mung bean paste.
ice cream
Ice cream is thought of as a Western treat, but frozen desserts have (somehow) been available thr...
cake
This word is usually translated as cake, but it's not just for desserts like Western cakes (which...
Western-style cake
Chinese bakeries often offer Western-style cakes.
sweet rice cake
This spongy cake is made from rice flour and sugar, fermented then steamed. Also known as steamed...
mochi ice cream
Mochi ice cream is Japanese mochi filled with ice cream encased. So it's not dim sum, but it's a ...
New Year cake
New Year cake is a steamed cake made with sticky rice, often served fried or dipped in egg and fr...
stir-fried rice cake
Same rice cake used to make New Year cake, but sliced into ovals (resembling gnocchi in appearanc...
osmanthus jelly
A jelly made with dried [osmanthus] flower.
osmanthus jelly with goji berries
A jelly made with dried osmanthus flowers with goji berries. Goji berries are also known as wolfb...
Malaysian steamed cake
A steamed sponge cake made with brown sugar. It's a Hong Kong dessert, not actually Malaysian, bu...
paper-wrapped cake
Paper-wrapped cake is a muffin-like cake common in Hong Kong and Chinatown bakeries, baked in a p...
taro cake
Taro cake is similar to turnip cake 蘿蔔糕 (lò baahk gōu) but made with taro mixed with rice flour a...
turnip cake
A standard dim sum offering and also a traditional Chinese New Year dishm, turnip cakes are not m...
pan-fried turnip cake
Pan-fried turnip cake.
steamed turnip cake
蒸 is steamed, 蘿蔔 is daikon, and 糕 is cake, so 蒸蘿蔔糕 is steamed radish cake.