Do you like Asian culture and cuisine? Experts in dating and creators of a dating website for Asian singles gathered a top of Asian desserts and today they share the sweets that everyone should try. We hope that these tasty things can melt your hearts and ignite love and passion, or at least help you enjoy time with your sweetheart.
Vietnamese banana cake
Country of origin: Vietnam
Bananas are very popular ingredients in Vietnamese cuisine. They are often steamed and baked to create many dishes. This famous cake is a sliced combination of banana slices and cream made of condensed milk and coconut milk, eggs, and sugar. Depending on the place, the cake can include other extra ingredients. It is often served with sesame seeds and coconut milk.
Thousand layer cake
Country of origin: China
Thousand layer cake is called the Chien chang go at its birthplace, in China. This classical dessert is composed of many-many layers of sweet dough. Typical ingredients include eggs, butter, sugar, flour, condensed milk, vanilla, and baking powder. After baking, the dessert needs to get cool, and then it is usually served in small slices. There is also a version of the cake that is made of Tapioca flour. Tapioca gives the cake its unique chewiness and nice orange color.
Red Bean Bun
Country of origin: China
Red bean is often used in China for its delicious taste. Actually, if you ever travel to China, you can easily take red beans even for chocolate. It’s no wonder that a traditional tasty cream is used for cooking steamed buns, baozi. The red bean bun is often filled with different sweet things, like black bean paste or taro paste.
Kutsinta
Country of origin: Philippines
This small Filippino treasure is prepared using glutinous rice flour, brown sugar, and lye water. When you combine all the ingredients together, you steam them in tiny round boxes. These sweet medals are usually served with coconut flakes and colored with annatto. Kutsinta is very famous in its birthplace for its simplicity and great taste.
Kue putu
Country of origin: Indonesia
A typical dessert from Indonesia that you will find almost everywhere there. Kue putu is often sold in the streets for its popularity. Ingredients are quite simple. They include glutinous rice flour and pandan leaves. The middle part of the cake usually includes palm sugar, while the whole sweat mass is later cooked in bamboo tubes. Indonesian people also like to add freshly grated coconut while steaming the dish. A similar dish is popular in Malaysia and India, so if you like the taste, you can try some other versions of the sweet in different countries.
Kasutera
Country of origin: Japan
One more traditional Japanese dessert is Kasutera. It’s a sponge cooked with traditional ingredients: flour, eggs, sugar, and starch syrup. The name of the dessert comes from a Portuguese Pão de Castela, meaning “bread from Castile”. If you need a delicate cake with a moist, smooth, and bouncy structure that has just enough sweetness with a fragrance of honey, Kasutera is a nice and delicious cake to surprise your sweetheart. There is another version of the Castella cake, which is the Green Tea Chiffon Cake. This recipe includes matcha powder which adds a green color and unique taste.
Steamed tapioca layers cake
Country of origin: Vietnam
This dish consists of mung beans, tapioca starch, and coconut milk. The dessert is usually colored green and yellow. Yellow layers get their color because of mung beans. And green layers become like that because of pandan leaves. Sometimes cookers also add durian to the recipe. The dessert is steamed and served cool.
Souffle cheesecake
Country of origin: Japan
Cheesecakes are actually quite popular in Japan. The dessert has some differences from its European relatives. A Japanese cheesecake is made of eggs, sugar, cream cheese, and whisked eggs. The way of cooking is different from what you probably expect. In Japan, this dish is cooked in a bain-marie. This way of preparation gives the cake a more fluffy and sponge shape. People eat it either cold or warm straight after baking. The dessert traveled to Japan from Germany with a famous chef Kuzuno in the middle of the 20th century.
Sans rival
Country of origin: Philippines
The dessert that used to be a classic French dish is now a traditional Filipino sweet. It consists of layers of baked nut meringue with a very tasty French buttercream. While in France the merengue is made using almonds and hazelnuts, in the Philippines you are more likely to find cake versions made of cashews. It is said that the dessert was brought from France to the Philippines in the 1920s.
Hope you liked these fine desserts, however, our list is not yet finished. Stay tuned for our next post about the best Asian desserts for dating.