List of Chinese bakery products
Chinese bakeries in big cities like Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and across the world in Chinatowns, serve delicate pastries and delicious buns as well as tea, coffee and other drinks.
Some Delicacies
- Cha Siu Baau (Roast Pork Bun): This bun can be steamed or baked and is filled with roast pork and onions.
- Pineapple bun: This bun does not contain pineapples. Instead, it has a tender crispy, sweet, golden crust and is often served hot, with a thick pat of butter in its center.
- Egg tart: This is a delicate pastry tart with a lightly sweet golden egg custard filling.
- Wife cake: A round flaky pastry with a translucent white winter melon paste center.
- Mooncake: A heavy lotus seed paste filled round pastry usually with an egg yolk or two in the center. Served at the Mid-Autumn Festival.
- Curry Beef Puff: A delicate half moon of pastry surrounds a savory curried beef center.
- Glutinous rice balls dusted with desiccated coconut: A sweet, sticky ball of coconut-infused rice flour dough is often filled with a black sesame filling.
- Mango Pudding: A sweet, creamy gelatinous pudding with mango.
- Chinese Almond Cookie: A golden, delicate cookie with a light almond taste.
Drinks
- Tea
- Bubble Tea (Boba): Large tapioca pearls are served in tea with milk.
- Milk tea: black tea sweetened with sweet evaporated milk.
- Coffee: usually served with light cream.
- Yuanyang: a blend of tea and coffee, popular in Hong Kong.