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Grass jelly, also known as leaf jelly or herb jelly, is a jelly-like dessert originating in China. It is commonly consumed in East Asia and Southeast Asia . It is created by using Chinese mesona (a member of the mint family ) and has a mild, slightly bitter taste.
Guilinggao (Chinese: 龜苓膏; pinyin: Guīlínggāo), literal translated as tortoise jelly (though not technically correct) or turtle powder, is a jelly-like Chinese medicine, also sold as a dessert.
A bowl of grass jelly from a Chinese restaurant in Yuen Long. Grass jelly is a gelatinous dessert that is usually made from a plant in the mint family called Platostoma palustre. It and similar desserts can be made from other grass jelly plants. [1] Some are also used for making beverages. [2]
Ginger milk curd 姜撞奶 - a Cantonese steamed dessert; ginger juice is used to curdle the sweetened milk [4] Grass jelly 仙草; Guilinggao 龟苓膏 -- herbal jellies that traditionally contains turtle shell, served either hot or cold; A bowl of jiuniang with osmanthus flowers sprinkled on top.
Douhua – Chinese dessert made with tender tofu; Dried shredded squid – Seafood product; Egg yolk pastry – Taiwanese mooncake pastry filled with salted duck egg yolk and red bean paste; Grass jelly – Asian jelly-like dessert; Ji dan gao – Taiwanese sponge cake; Kiâm-piánn – Taiwanese salty biscuit
Grass jelly: China: A jelly-like dessert prepared by boiling the aged and slightly oxidized stalks and leaves of Mesona chinensis [20] [21] (member of the mint family) with potassium carbonate for several hours with a little starch and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency. [20] [22] Kaju katli: South India
A falooda is a Mughalai cold dessert made with vermicelli. [1] [2] It has origins in the Persian dish faloodeh, variants of which are found across West, Central, South and Southeast Asia. [3] Traditionally it is made by mixing rose syrup, vermicelli, and sweet basil seeds with milk, often served with ice cream. [4]
The dessert's main ingredient is the jelly made from seeds of the o-aew plant. The seeds are soaked and squeezed to extract a gel, which is mixed with extracted juice from the nam wa banana. Calcium sulphate is added as a gelling agent, and the jelly left to set overnight.