I’ve made glutinous rice treats from Japan (kansai style sakuramochi, kanto style sakuramochi and strawberry daikufu), Vietnam (glutinous rice dessert) and Korea (baked rice cake bars) but I have yet to make something from Hong Kong!
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Korean baked rice cake bars
Lil’ bun and I have made the Chinese version of steamed rice cake “nian gao” a few times before for lunar new years and we have always loved how easy they are to make. But sometimes, making the same thing over and over gets a little boring. So today, we decided to be adventurous and […]
Sakura Mochi -Kansai (Kyoto) style
As promised on my previous sakuramochi post, here’s the Kansai version of sakura mochi! If you don’t know what sakuramochi is or what it’s about, go to the sakuramochi -kanto (tokyo) style post, and get caught up on the deliciousness! Instead of using glutinous rice flour, this recipe uses glutinous rice to encase the red bean […]
Ode to the gac fruit – glutinous rice dessert
As adventurous as we are…today we probably got one of the oddest fruits ever…the gac fruit, a vietnamese fruit. It’s supposed to have 10x more carotenoids than carrots! Yay phytonutrients! Well without further ado, this is how it looks like. It’s about the size of a papaya and while it has spikes on the outside, […]