As the Lantern Festival, known in Chinese as Yuánxiāo jié (元宵节), approaches, it’s time to start thinking about eating yuanxiao or tang yuan. These are glutinous rice balls stuffed with various fillings. This air-fryer tang yuan recipe takes frozen sweet glutinous rice balls and makes them into something a bit different! A New Way to
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Category Archive: ‘Desserts & Sweet Stuff’
A Wife Cake, or lao po bing (lǎopó bìng in Mandarin or lou po beng—pronounced more like “baeng“—in Cantonese – 老婆饼), is a Chinese dessert with a flaky pastry crust and a sweet winter melon filling. It is a Cantonese treat, which can be found as a shadow of their former selves in most Chinese
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Today we have another recipe in our postpartum series—a lightly sweet postpartum porridge made with 7 nourishing Chinese ingredients. In Chinese, the porridge is called yuè zi zhōu (月子粥) which roughly translates to postpartum confinement porridge, and it’s especially meant for the first month after giving birth! Give Chinese Dessert Soups a Try! To be
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Today, we’re coming to you with a new mooncake recipe for the Mid-Autumn Festival! This one is a bit non-traditional. We’re making Pecan Pie Mooncakes! This recipe is for all of you out there who think you don’t like mooncakes or who want to try making them for the first time. The flavors are deliciously
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This taro sago (tapioca) dessert soup is a tasty and lightly sweet end to any Chinese meal. It’s also fairly simple to make, with just water and 8 other ingredients. It freezes well too, so you can make a big batch and save some in pint or quart containers for a quick and easy dessert
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These buttery jasmine shortbread cookies are subtly flavored with ground jasmine tea leaves, making them the perfect complement for a hot cup of tea on a cold winter day. Note: We partnered with Frontier Co-op to bring you this Jasmine Shortbread Cookie recipe. As always on The Woks of Life, all opinions are our own. Enjoy! Let
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This is a classic Chinese mooncake recipe with a red bean paste filling. While mooncakes do take time and effort to make, the flavor of homemade mooncakes is so much better than store-bought (and much less expensive!). We make our own mooncakes every year for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Try this recipe once, and it may
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Mango pudding (pronounced, mángguǒ bùdīng in Mandarin, or mong guo bo ding in Cantonese) is a refreshing and lightly sweet dessert. It has just five ingredients, which let the mango flavor shine through. A refreshing treat for the hot summer days to come, we’ve been enjoying it after long afternoons working in the garden! Let’s
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