Chinese desserts are sweet treats usually served with tea at the end of a delicious meal. They are majorly made up of ingredients used in East Asia typically eaten by dessert lovers. For someone who has a sweet tooth will be able to savour and appreciate these desserts as major of the ingredient of these delicacies are made up from sugar. These type of desserts can commonly be found at any dessert place in Singapore.
From sweet candies, chilling ice and refreshing soups are great for hot days to quench the thirst. Chinese desserts can be divided into different types ranging from soups to candies to ices. Here is the list of the different types of Chinese desserts you will commonly find:
Candies
Chinese candies are made with sugar cane, honey and malt sugar. The sweets mainly consist of fruits and nuts mixed with syrup flavours to give the candy their textures. Examples of the best Chinese dessert candies are white rabbit creamy candy and the dragon’s beard candy.
Ices
Ever desired to have some shaved ice cream which melts when you put it in your mouth? The flavour of the sweet condiments and syrup will make you crave for more. Ices are a common option for dessert lovers for its cooling nature mainly on a hot sunny day. They are also known as “ice kacang” in Singapore. With comes with different flavours such as bandung, rose syrup and chendol. But for a healthier dessert option, fruits are also added in this dessert.
Soups
There is a wide range of Chinese sweet soups both modern and traditional. Most Chinese sweet soups are simmered for a long time to get its full flavour. These soups are for summer low-fat foods as they are light and refreshing. Dessert doesn’t necessarily have to be served cold. Chinese soups can be served both hot and cold, and amazingly some of these soups are specially made to offer health benefits!
Some types of these soups are like green bean soup, red bean soup, white fungus soup, fruit soup with white fungus, red date congee and red date longan soup.
Jellies
Many of the Chinese jelly are set traditionally with agar (jelly) and are flavoured with fruits. Some of the most common Chinese jellies are the aiyu jelly, grass jelly and herbal jelly.
Guo
This dessert may not be familiar to many especially for tourists, but they are rice based snacks that are typically steamed and may be made from glutinous or normal rice. The guo dessert varies in terms of its texture. Some may be chewy, jelly-like, fluffy or firm. There are various types of guo and they include, tangyuan, ang ku kueh, nian gao and bai tang gao.
Bing
They are baked wheat flour based confections. They are similar to the short pastry crust of western cuisine. Commonly eaten Bing types are sun cake, wife cake and the moon cake. Bings are most common during the summer. Its ingredients are a mound of ice shavings created by hand either by using a large mallet to crush the ice or a blade to shave the ice.
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