Thursday, January 1, 2009

Chinese Desserts

Proudly introducing some of the most typical chinese desserts in Penang:

1. Si Ko T'ng (四果汤) - typically contains lotus seed, white fungus, red beans, dried longans, atapchi etc in a clear sweet 'soup'. Usually drank / eaten cold in hot country like Malaysia but it can be consumed hot as well.

2. Almond tea (very thick, sweet) with you char kway (the ddep fried, brownish 'bread sticks' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtiao). I don't like almond tea, smells like cockroach but I like to dip the you char kway into the almond tea and eat it while it's still a little crunchy, suddenly it becomes acceptable :)

3. Tau Hua http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douhua

4. Bird's nest with papaya in rock sugar syrup.

5. Bird's nest & hasma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasma) cooked in almond rock sugar syrup.
I don't think I can give much good explaination about these desserts without going through endless round of translating between chinese & english + some wikipedia search. So if you're interested to find out, all the important terms are listed...help yourself :)

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