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Sweets from China: recognise mooncake, egg tart, pineapple cake, sesame balls, tangyuan, nian gao, fortune cookie, mantou, youtiao and egg waffle. Good to know: A dense pastry with sweet filling for the Mid-Autumn Festival. A salted egg yolk often sits inside as a full moon. A small tart with a yellow custard filling. In Hong Kong it is part of dim sum. A buttery pastry with pineapple jam, from Taiwan. It is a popular souvenir gift. Fried glutinous rice balls covered in sesame. Inside they are hollow or filled with bean paste. Glutinous rice balls in a sweet soup. They belong to the Lantern Festival. A sticky rice cake for Chinese New Year. The name sounds like ‘higher year’ and is a lucky symbol. A crisp cookie with a slip of paper inside. It comes more from the USA than from China. A soft steamed bun without filling. In northern China it is a staple food. A fried strip of dough, often for breakfast. It is dipped in soy milk or rice porridge. A bubble-patterned waffle, a Hong Kong street snack.

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Which pastry is this?

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Mooncake

A dense pastry with sweet filling for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

💡 Did you know? A salted egg yolk often sits inside as a full moon.

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Egg tart

A small tart with a yellow custard filling.

💡 Did you know? In Hong Kong it is part of dim sum.

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Pineapple cake

A buttery pastry with pineapple jam, from Taiwan.

💡 Did you know? It is a popular souvenir gift.

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Sesame balls

Fried glutinous rice balls covered in sesame.

💡 Did you know? Inside they are hollow or filled with bean paste.

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Tangyuan

Glutinous rice balls in a sweet soup.

💡 Did you know? They belong to the Lantern Festival.

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