Chinese Desserts Recipes Online

The Chinese very rarely eat desserts, reserving them for banquets, formal dinners, or one of the many festivals that the Chinese celebrate.

Fresh fruit in season is a good choice for people who  like to finish a meal with something sweet. Fortune cookies are always baked commercially and are available, in packages, fro Chinese specialty store. Moon cakes, which are also available from stores, are never prepared at home as they are time-consuming and require a long list of unusual ingredients. The cakes are filled with a lightly sweetened, rich-red soybean paste and are exchanged as gifts at the Moon Festival, during September.

Fruit ices are another suitable dessert for a Chinese meal. Marco Polo was introduced to these on his voyage to China and brought the idea back to the Western world.

Many oriental fruits are available canned and may be served individually with ice cream or combined for a fruit salad. The most popular are lychees, longans, rambutan, mangosteen, mandarin quarters and jackfruit.