List of Chinese desserts

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Chinese desserts are sweet foods and dishes that are served with tea, along with meals [1] 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.

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Chinese desserts

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Peking-style xingren doufu (left) with sprinkled dried osmanthus flower in a restaurant in Beijing, China. Peking-style cream fried dough (Nai You Zha Gao ) on the right. Xing Ren Dou Fu Nai You Zha Gao .JPG
Peking-style xingren doufu (left) with sprinkled dried osmanthus flower in a restaurant in Beijing, China. Peking-style cream fried dough (奶油炸糕) on the right.

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Sichuanese deep-fried ciba served with brown sugar syrup and roasted soybean flour. Ciba cake 2.jpg
Sichuanese deep-fried ciba served with brown sugar syrup and roasted soybean flour.

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Canton-style egg custard tart served in a dim sum restaurant. Small egg tarts at Yum Cha Cafe, 2009.jpg
Canton-style egg custard tart served in a dim sum restaurant.

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A bowl of ginger milk curd in a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong. Ginger Milk Pudding.jpg
A bowl of ginger milk curd in a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong.
Grass jellies are prepared by boiling Chinese menosa, an herb in the mint family. SZ Shen Zhen Shenzhen Fu Tian Futian Shang Sha Cun Lu ShangShaCun Road Hei Se Liang Fen Tian Pin Grass jelly Xiao Fan food stall June 2024 R12S 06.jpg
Grass jellies are prepared by boiling Chinese menosa, an herb in the mint family.

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A bowl of jiuniang with osmanthus flowers sprinkled on top. Kueh hrua lau cau.jpg
A bowl of jiuniang with osmanthus flowers sprinkled on top.

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Ludagun served on a plate in a restaurant in Beijing Lyu Da Gun.jpg
Lüdagun served on a plate in a restaurant in Beijing

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A traditional Cantonese mooncake with lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk fillings Mooncake with double yolk and lotus seed paste.jpg
A traditional Cantonese mooncake with lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk fillings

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Steamed Cantonese brown sugar nian gao, traditionally consumed during Chinese New Year. A homemade nian gao from old woman in yuen long.jpg
Steamed Cantonese brown sugar nian gao, traditionally consumed during Chinese New Year.

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Qingtuan steamed in batch. Qingtuan.jpg
Qingtuan steamed in batch.

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Traditional Manchu sachima (below, two pieces) and rose cake (Xianhua bing [zh]) (upper left, split). Rose Cake, Sunni Efen white cake, and Sachima.jpg
Traditional Manchu sachima (below, two pieces) and rose cake ( Xianhua bing  [ zh ]) (upper left, split).

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Sweetheart cake / "wife cake" sold in a Cantonese bakery in Hong Kong. HK Food Sweetheart Wife Cakes @ Sheung Wan Morrison Street Lao Po Bing .jpg
Sweetheart cake / "wife cake" sold in a Cantonese bakery in Hong Kong.
A large batch of tanghulu made with various fruits sold along the street in Shanghai. Tanghulu-shanghai.jpg
A large batch of tanghulu made with various fruits sold along the street in Shanghai.
A bowl of tangyuan with black sesame filling. Yellow ones have skins made with pumpkin. Pumpkin tangyuan (Tang Yuan ) with red bean baste and black sesame fillings.jpg
A bowl of tangyuan with black sesame filling. Yellow ones have skins made with pumpkin.

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Wrapped (right) and unwrapped (left) zongzi with sweet red bean paste filling; wrappings are large-leaved bamboo leaves. Zongzi.jpg
Wrapped (right) and unwrapped (left) zongzi with sweet red bean paste filling; wrappings are large-leaved bamboo leaves.

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See also

References

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  3. Melt in Your Mouth Fried Milk by Chinese Masterchef • Taste Show , retrieved 2021-11-06
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