List of Chinese desserts

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Chinese desserts are sweet foods and dishes that are served with tea, along with meals^[1] or at the end of meals in Chinese cuisine. The desserts encompass a wide variety of ingredients commonly used in East Asian cuisines such as powdered or whole glutinous rice, sweet bean pastes, and agar. Due to the many Chinese cultures and the long history of China, there are a great variety of desserts of many forms.

Chinese desserts

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Annin tofu is a popular dessert, often found in dim sum restaurants worldwide.

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A coconut bar is a refrigerated dim sum dessert that is sometimes referred to as coconut pudding, despite not really being a pudding.^[2]

Chao hong guo
Chongyang cake — 9 September of each Chinese lunar calendar
Coconut bar
Crystal cake
Custard tart

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Fried ice cream is a dessert made from a breaded scoop of ice cream that is quickly deep-fried, creating a warm, crispy shell around the still-cold ice cream.

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Ginger milk curd is a hot dessert that originated in Shawan Ancient Town of Panyu District, Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province in southern China. Its main ingredients are ginger, milk, and sugar.^[4]
Grass jelly is a jelly-like dessert that is prepared with Mesona chinensis.

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Shaobing or Huangqiao sesame cake originated from Huangqiao town in Taixing, Jiangsu.

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Kai kou xiao

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Osmanthus cake

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Sugar painting is a traditional Chinese form of folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create two-dimensional figures.
Sweetheart cake is a traditional Cantonese pastry with flaky and thin skin filled with winter melon mixed glutinous rice flour and sugar. Coconut, sesame, almond, star anise or Chinese five spice may also be added.

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Tanghulu is a traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit.
Pumpkin tang yuan (Chinese: 湯圓) with red bean paste and black sesame fillings

Zongzi is a tradition snack usually eaten during Dragon Boat Festival. Many styles tend to be sweet and dessert-like.^[8]

References

^ "Chinese Desserts." Archived 2011-07-02 at the Wayback Machine Kaleidoscope - Cultural China Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed June 2011.
^ Coconut Bar. iFood TV. Accessed March 31, 2012.
^ Melt in Your Mouth Fried Milk by Chinese Masterchef • Taste Show, retrieved 2021-11-06
^ "Ginger Milk Pudding, a Natural Custard". tastehongkong.com. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
^ Andrew Dembina (26 August 2010). "8 bone-chilling summer desserts for Hong Kong". CNN Go. Retrieved 12 August 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Ma Lai Go Chinese Steamed Cake". The Woks of Life. 2019-02-18. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
^ "Chinese-sweetheart-cake". Archived from the original on 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
^ Popular Candy in China. TravelChinaCheaper. Accessed June 20, 2019.

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