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Menu du jour chinese pastry : 25 Recipes


  • Recipe Peppered Pork Pastry
    Peppered Pork Pastry
    This video Pepper Cake , is very informative and i find this cake/pastry very interesting, although i could not fully understand the  language but i could guess.  I managed to bake a batch of very light pastry[...]
  • Recipe [CRA 2010 Signature Dish] Daikon Pastry ????? from Shanghai Wonderful, Richmond
    [CRA 2010 Signature Dish] Daikon Pastry ????? from Shanghai Wonderful, Richmond
    Just earlier this week, a friend asked me what my favourite Shanghainese restaurants are. What popped in my mind instantly are four, all in Richmond — Shanghai River , Chen’s , Top Shanghai and Shanghai Wonderful. What about you?[...]
  • Recipe Chinese Steamed Bun - Mantou ??
    Chinese Steamed Bun - Mantou ??
    I bought a packet of pao flour a couple of weeks back. Initially I thought of making vegetarian steamed bun with jicama filling. However, I made excuses to delay the pao making. Later on, an idea popped up in my mind to make mantou with the[...]
  • Recipe Vegetarian Dumplings
    Vegetarian Dumplings (1 vote)
    I am a big fan of the chinese style vegetarian dumpling. I have Carolyn to thank for this obsession, as I had never tried them prior to her introducing me to them many years ago. I have since tried them in a few different restaurants, and I've[...]
  • Recipe Mooncakes
    Mooncakes (1 vote)
    Time really flies, it seems just like yesterday when I started my first mooncakes bake last year after got hold of the "mooncake" recipe book published by Y3K. I focus more on snow skin with custard filling & champagne truffles last[...]
  • Recipe Egg Tart
    Egg Tart
    Attempted egg tarts which was a failure by my standards. Instructions called for baking at 300 degrees C, so that the pastry will be cooked but the custard will not curdle too much. But my oven could only reach 250. As it turns out,[...]
  • Recipe Egg Tarts
    Egg Tarts
    This has been our family's all time "tim sum" favourite, the traditional chinese restaurant in the 70's serve was flaky skin pastry utilizing mainly lard . Though some of the restaurant here still serving the flaky skin type, but the taste is[...]
  • Recipe Dragon Balls
    Dragon Balls
    Digging in... Had some left over lotus paste from last year's Mooncake Festival. Yes I know, it was over 3 months ago - but lotus paste can keep for rather long :P So I used them to make little Dragon Balls - with spiral,[...]
  • Recipe you just know
    you just know
    I knew my husband was the one when he would eat with my family, both at restaurants and at my parents' home. He wasn't afraid to try everything, the seafood (fish, octopus, etc.), the pig and chicken feet, ox tongue, and daikon and coconut[...]
  • Recipe Teochew Mooncake
    Teochew Mooncake
    i know mid-autumn festival is over but these cakes can be enjoyed at any time of the year. They are easy to make and worth every ounce of effort put in. I made these intending to have a party during the festival but[...]