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A whole Chinese New Year cake

Nian Gao (Chinese New Year Rice Cake, 年糕)

A Chinese steamed custard bun

Steamed Custard Buns (Nai Wong Bao, 奶黄包)

Three glasses of bubble tea: classic, brown sugar and matcha

Bubble Tea Three Ways (Boba Tea, 珍珠奶茶)

Eight treasure rice pudding with red bean paste filling

Eight Treasure Rice Pudding (Ba Bao Fan, 八宝饭)

Smooth, fine red bean paste

Red Bean Paste in Two Ways (Hong Dou Sha, 红豆沙)

Red bean buns with one halved.

Red Bean Buns (Dou Sha Bao, 豆沙包)

pumpkin shaped mochi cakes in a steamer.

Pumpkin Mochi with Red Bean Paste (红豆南瓜饼)

7 snow skin mooncakes on a board

Snow Skin Mooncake with Custard Filling (冰皮月饼)

lotus root stuffed with sticky rice

Sweet lotus root with sticky rice (糯米藕)

Sticky rice cakes filled with two different fillings

Sichuan leaf-wrapped sticky rice cakes (Ye’er Ba, 叶儿粑)

Cantonese mooncakes filled with salted egg & lotus paste

Cantonese Mooncake with Salted Egg Yolk (广式月饼)

An unwrapped Chinese sticky rice dumpling (Zongzi)

Zongzi: Chinese sticky rice dumpling (粽子)

Homemade fortune cookies with sesame rims

Homemade fortune cookies (签语饼)

Hot, fragrant, crispy and powerfully mouth-numbing, Sichuan spicy peanuts are an addictive snack that can be easily made at home.

Sichuan spicy peanuts (Mala peanuts, 麻辣花生)

A golden oranger colours sesame ball held by a ceramic spoon.

Sesame balls, the sweet potato version (红薯煎堆)

White and pink Tang Yuan (Chinese glutinous rice balls) in serving bowls.

Tang Yuan, Chinese glutinous rice balls (汤圆)

A dessert glass filled with mango puree and grapefruit pieces

Mango sago with grapefruit (杨枝甘露)

Chinese peanut & sesame brittle on a plate

Peanut & sesame brittle (花生芝麻糖)

Fresh mango chunk topped with fluffy whipped cream, then wrapped with a thin, moist and elastic crepe, pillow-shaped mango pancake is a dessert to die for.

Hong Kong style mango pancake (芒果班戟)

A tried and tested recipe for making perfect ginger milk curd, a popular Cantonese dessert with an interesting flavour and silky texture.

Fail-proof ginger milk curd (姜汁撞奶)

A traditional Chinese home remedy for cough relief. Steamed or boiled pear with rock sugar is a delightful dessert very easy to prepare.

Pear with rock sugar – two ways (冰糖雪梨)