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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.
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]
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.
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
Aiyu jelly (Chinese: 愛玉冰; pinyin: àiyùbīng; or 愛玉凍; àiyùdòng; or simply 愛玉; àiyù), known in Amoy Hokkien as ogio (Chinese: 薁蕘; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ò-giô), [1] and as ice jelly in Singapore (Chinese: 文 頭 雪; pinyin: wéntóu xuě), is a jelly made from the gel from the seeds of the awkeotsang creeping fig found in Taiwan and East Asian countries of the same ...
Coffee jelly features in many desserts in Japan; Jellied cranberry sauce is primarily a holiday treat in the U.S. and the UK. Götterspeise, a German dessert made of gelatin or other gelling agent; Grass jelly, a food from China and Southeast Asia, often served in drinks; Bocadillo, a Latin American confectionery made with guava pulp and panela
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.
Cendol / ˈ tʃ ɛ n d ɒ l / is an iced sweet dessert that contains pandan-flavoured green rice flour jelly, [1] coconut milk, and palm sugar syrup. [2] It is popular in the Southeast Asian nations of Indonesia, [3] Malaysia, [4] Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Myanmar.