List of Chinese desserts facts for kids

Chinese desserts are sweet foods and dishes that are served with tea, along with meals 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

A

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

• Annin tofu
• Aiwowo

B

• Banana roll
• Black sesame roll
• Black sesame soup
• Bingfen

C

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

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

D

• Douhua
• Dragon's beard candy
• Double skin milk

E

Egg custard tart is a popular Chinese pastry.

• Egg tart
• Egg tong sui
• Eggies
• Eight treasure congee

F

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.

• Fried ice cream
• Funing big cake
• Fried milk

G

• Ginger milk curd
• Grass jelly
• Guilinggao

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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.

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  Grass jelly is a jelly-like dessert that is prepared with Mesona chinensis.

H

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

• Hasma
• Huangqiao sesame cake

J

• Jiuniang
• JingBaJian
• Jian dui

K

• Kai kou xiao

L

• Ligao Tang
• Lotus seed paste

M

Mango pudding is a Hong Kong dessert usually served cold.

Mooncakes are traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

• Mahua
• Mango pudding
• Malay sponge cake
• Mi san dao
• Mooncake

N

Popular Guangdong deep-fried sweet nian gao

• Nai lao
• Nian gao
• Nuomici

O

• Osmanthus cake

P

• Put chai ko
• Pineapple bun

R

• Red bean cake
• Red bean soup
• Red tortoise cake
• Rice pudding
• Red bean bun

S

• Sachima
• Song gao
• Sugar painting
• Sweet potato soup
• Sweetheart cake

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  Sugar painting is a traditional Chinese form of folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create two-dimensional figures.

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  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.

T

• Tanghulu
• Tangyuan
• Tapioca pudding
• Taro purée
• Tong sui

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  Tanghulu is a traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit.

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  Pumpkin tang yuan (Chinese: 湯圓) with red bean paste and black sesame fillings

W

• White sugar sponge cake

X

• Xi gua lao

Z

• Zongzi

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