Dessert Around The World: Chinese

Dessert Around The World: Chinese

Monday, 25 May 2015 / No Comments

Hi Guys! Welcome back to our Dessert Around The World series. Our destination today is China!! Enjoy!

Annin Tofu

Annin Tofu is a traditional dessert from Beijing, Cantonese, and Hong Kong made of jellied tofu made with apricot kernel, agar and sugar. This dessert is known as a vegan dish, but actually the traditional recipe contains dairy ingredients and flavored extract.

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Black Sesame Soup

Black sesame soup is popular in East-Asian and Chinese especially throughout China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It's usually served hot and have the soup consistency but much more thicker. The main ingredients of this soup is black sesame seeds, sugar, rice and water. Chinese traditional treatments used this soup to warm the body, replenish blood, relax bowel and nourish your hair. This soup is also good for those who have Anemia, Constipation, Dizzines, and Tinnitus.

Dragon's Beard Candy

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Dragon's Beard Candy is a Chinese sweets similar to spun candy. It's is describe to be an old-fashioned candy with rich and sweet flavor with threads and chewy texture. It's shaped like a white cocoon and is very sensitive to moisture and heat (it tends to melt if it's exposed to heat). The first Dragon's Beard Candy was recorded during the Han Dynasty. The process of making this candy includes stretching the dough into thin strings. 

So, that's all from our destination today guys! See you on our next destination, BYE!!

How to Make Tofu Pudding

How to Make Tofu Pudding

Friday, 8 May 2015 / No Comments

Hello my lovely friends… listening to our favorite music is such a good way to boost our mood, because it will make us relax and forget some problem that we are thinking about. How about you? What is your way to boost your mood?.

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Beside of listening to the music, eating a sweet food also make my day effectively. Because today our star is the soft tofu, today I will tell you about how to make tofu pudding, or in Chinese called as ‘dou hua’, and  in my place called as ‘kembang tahu’. If you make this dessert at home, you can have new experience to try new way to enjoy healthy tofu. The pudding is so soft and melting in your mouth. Even just writing about this can make me hungry ha-ha. Okay, just check this out…

Ingredients:

• ⅓ cup (100 ml) boiling water

• 10 g gelatin

• 175 g firm silken tofu

• 5 Tbsp. honey

• 1½ cup (350 ml) unsweetened soymilk

• ½ tsp. almond extract

Instructions:

1. Mix the boiling water and gelatin in a bowl until it was completely become mixture.

2. Mix tofu, honey, and soymilk together. You can use food processor to make sure it will completely become smooth.

3. Transfer the mixture to the large bowl. Add the gelatin mixture and almond extract and whisk. Make sure you don’t making too much bubbles.

4. Transfer the mixture into individual ramekins. Put it in the refrigerator at least one hour until set.

Your pudding is ready to serve. You also can put the sauce like fruit sauce or ginger sugar sauce depend on your taste. I hope you can enjoy the pudding well, because it is healthy and also softy delicious.

See you next time…

The History of Tofu

The History of Tofu

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Hello guys… did you enjoy everything today? I hope you have such a beautiful day. Yesterday my friend and I went to the Taiwan Restaurant to eat some delicious dessert. We ate the dessert that contains tofu pudding. Do you ever eat tofu pudding? Or the other food that made from tofu? How it was?

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I think tofu is really popular in the world because tofu is delicious and healthy. In my country for example tofu is called as ‘tahu’ and tahu is the one of the most popular food in Indonesia. But do you who is the founder of tofu? Do you want to know how this food can spread out the world?. Let’s see how the history of our creamy tofu.

Maybe we often hear the food made by tofu is originated from Japan, but actually the founder of tofu was China over 2000 years ago. The oldest evidence of tofu production is a Chinese mural incised on a stone slab. It shows a kitchen scene that proves that soymilk and tofu were being made in China during the period A.D. 25-220. Su Ping was writing the poem “Ode to Tofu” about tofu at about A.D 1500.

Tofu was brought to Japan by Kento Priest, who went to China to study Buddhism, brought tofu back to Japan during the Nara era (710-794). Firstly tofu was eaten as a vegetarian food in vegetarian diets for priests. In Japan in the dairy of the Shinto priest Nakaomi is the first time ‘tofu’. In 1489 the word "tofu" was first written in the actual Japanese characters. Tofu gradually became popular among the nobility and the samurai class. During the Edo era (1603-1867), tofu became popular among ordinary people. The cooking book "Tofu Hyakuchin" was published in 1782 and sold very well.

Tofu history in Western world - In 1603 the Spanish dictionary "Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam" was the first European document with reference to the word "tofu". Domingo Fernandez de Navarrete described in his book "A Collection of Voyages and Travels" how tofu was made. The first English reference to tofu was in 1704, when Navarrete's book was published in English. Tofu was first produced (non-commercial) in France by Paillieux in 1880. Hirata & Co started to make tofu in San Francisco in 1895. The first Westerner who produced tofu on a commercial scale was T.A. Van Gundy in 1929 when he started the company La Sierra Industries in California.

In the western world, "Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam" was the first document that write the information about tofu, that is the Spanish Dictionary. Domingo Fernandez de Navarrete described how tofu was made in his book "A Collection of Voyages and Travles". Navarrete's book was published in English, that’s the first document about tofu that written in English. In 1880 tofu was first produced for non-commercial in France by Paillieux. Hirata & Co started to make tofu in San Francisco in 1895. The first Westerner who produced tofu on a commercial scale was T.A. Van Gundy in 1929 when he started the company La Sierra Industries in California.

It’s been a long time since tofu was found and became so popular in the world. It’s proper because from tofu we can make a lot of delicious food. Some recipes about delicious foods that made of tofu will be our post next time. Have a nice day…