Spiral mooncakes, swirl mooncakes, thousand-layer mooncakes, Teochew-style mooncakes, or 潮州月餅… these sweet, flaky pastries go by several names. What I
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Spiral Mantou
Mantou, or 饅頭, is steamed yeast bread that is a major staple especially in northern China, where wheat rather than
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Purple Yam Snow Skin Mooncake
Snow-skin mooncake, or 冰皮月餅, are chewy, unleavened, unbaked treats made from glutinous rice flour that has a consistency like marshmallow,
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Macau-Style Almond Biscuits
Almond biscuits, or 澳門杏仁餅, are a specialty of Macau. These sweet crumbly cookies are mostly made from mung beans and
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Date and Walnut Cantonese-Style Mooncake
Mooncakes, or 月餅, are unleavened pastries filled with a sweet paste, the most traditional ones being red bean paste, lotus
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Amygdalota
Amygdalota are almond cookies of Greek origin. With almond, egg white, and sugar as the only ingredients, these chewy treats
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Bolobao
Bolobao, or 菠蘿包, literally means “pineapple bun” except they contain no pineapples. Instead, these Cantonese yeast buns are topped with
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