Name of a chinese desert?

Question

There is this Chinese desert that I really like but I don't the American or Chinese name of it. It is like this coconut flavor jello that has yellow bean and tapioca in it. The color is white like a paper white. The yellow bean is more like hard than paste. Can anyone tell me what it's called?

Answer 1

tapioca pudding

Answer 2

This doesn't sound like any authentic Chinese dessert or perhaps it's an American variation. I believe what is known as tapioca in USA is what we call sago, they are different things. To Asians, tapioca is something very different, the root of the cassava plant. In SE Asia, tapioca pudding is a baked thick cake made from grated tapioca.

You said it is a coconut flavoured jello or jelly. A few others mentioned almond jelly or agar agar. Coconut & almond are obviously different flavours and jello & agar agar have very different textures since the latter sets much firmer. In Asia, almond jelly uses agar-agar & usually has nothing inside the opaque white jelly, topping is usually canned longans or canned cocktail fruits. There is no yellow bean or sago.

Answer 3

I am a former chef in Canada and the almond jelly the last lady spoke of is correct, here I can buy a package one from Hong Kong under the name "Robertson's", or you can buy in Italian store an almond beverage in bottles, you just heat it and add the agar-agar or unflavoured gelatin powder.

You allow it to set and then make a sugar syrup like the last lady said, and either use the mung beans or in Chnatowns you can buy both frozen cooked or tinned lotus seeds, the tapioca is the large pearl variety, it is done by rinsing a cup or 2 in cold water, fill a pot with water and cook it until soft and cleear, then drain it, combine the squares of gel, beans or seeds, the tapioca and the syrup, or here in Toronto ON Canada, they add it to tinned fruit cocktail and serve some carnation milk with it.

Answer 4

That's a variation of the Almond Jelly.. but the coconut flavored item is called "Coconut Bar", according to wikipedia.

The yellow beans are mung beans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_bar

Answer 5

I think you might be referring to Bingka ubi. It is a baked kuih of tapioca mixed in sweet pandan-flavoured custard. The kuih is yellow in colour but has a dark brown crust at the top caused by the baking process.

Answer 6

I want to say flan, but that is mainly credited to be from Spain. Dofu Fa is Chinese, and Red Bean Paste.

Answer 7

agar agar and a can of coconut milk
Here is how to do it.
Heat coconut milk and add a chunk of agar agar
melt it together and put in glass container
in other words. LIKE you would JELLO
It hardens rather quickly....cut into squares and eat.
YUMMy

The other is yellow peas with rock sugar added and blended

Answer 8

I didn't know they had desserts. But I did alittle research and I came up with basi fruit dishes.

Answer 9

See this link:

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2006/09/18/chinas_dangerous_dustbowl/

Answer 10

i'm pretty sure that it isn't a chinese dessert
i think that it is a thai dessert