List of Chinese desserts

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

Almond jelly is a popular dessert, often found in dim sum restaurants worldwide.

• Almond cookie
• Almond jelly

B

• Banana roll
• Black sesame roll
• Black sesame soup

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
• Chinese bakery products
• Chongyang Cake — 9 September of each Chinese lunar calendar
• Coconut bar
• Crystal cake
• Custard tart
• Cut cake

D

• Douhua
• Dragon's beard candy

E

Egg custard tarts is a popular Chinese pastry

• Egg tart
• Egg tong sui
• Eggies

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

G

• Ginger milk curd
• Grass jelly
• Guilinggao

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  Ginger milk curd is a hot dessert that originated in Shawan 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 sesame cake originated from Huangqiao town in Taixing, Jiangsu.

• Hasma
• Huangqiao sesame cake

J

• Jiuniang

K

• Kai kou xiao

L

• 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
• Mi san dao
• Mooncake

N

Popular Guangdong deep-fried sweet nian gao

• Nai lao
• Nian gao
• Nuomici

O

• Orange jelly candy

P

• Pandan cake
• Put chai ko

R

• Red bean cake
• Red bean soup
• Rice pudding

S

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

• 

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

• 

  Sweetheart cake is a traditional Cantonese pastry with flaky and thin skin made with winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder.

T

• Tanghulu
• Tangyuan
• Tapioca pudding
• Tong sui

• 

  Tanghulu is a traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit.

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  Pumpkin tang yuan (汤圆) with red bean paste and black sesame fillings

W

• White Rabbit Creamy Candy
• White sugar sponge cake

X

• Xi gua lao

See also

• Chinese bakery products
• Cuisine
• List of desserts
• List of Chinese dishes
• List of Chinese soups
• List of restaurants in China

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