List of Chinese desserts

Chinese desserts are sweet foods and dishes that are served with tea, along with meals[1] or at the end of meals in Chinese cuisine.

The desserts encompass a wide variety of ingredients commonly used in East Asian cuisines such as powdered or whole glutinous rice, sweet bean pastes, and agar.

Due to the many Chinese cultures and the long history of China, there are a great variety of desserts of many forms.

Peking-style xingren doufu (left) with sprinkled dried osmanthus flower in a restaurant in Beijing , China. Peking-style cream fried dough (奶油炸糕) on the right.
Sichuanese deep-fried ciba served with brown sugar syrup and roasted soybean flour .
Canton-style egg custard tart served in a dim sum restaurant.
A bowl of ginger milk curd in a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong .
Grass jellies are prepared by boiling Chinese menosa , an herb in the mint family .
A bowl of jiuniang with osmanthus flowers sprinkled on top.
Lüdagun served on a plate in a restaurant in Beijing
A traditional Cantonese mooncake with lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk fillings
Steamed Cantonese brown sugar nian gao , traditionally consumed during Chinese New Year .
Qingtuan steamed in batch.
Traditional Manchu sachima (below, two pieces) and rose cake ( Xianhua bing [ zh ] ) (upper left, split) .
Sweetheart cake / "wife cake" sold in a Cantonese bakery in Hong Kong .
A large batch of tanghulu made with various fruits sold along the street in Shanghai .
A bowl of tangyuan with black sesame filling. Yellow ones have skins made with pumpkin.
Wrapped (right) and unwrapped (left) zongzi with sweet red bean paste filling; wrappings are large-leaved bamboo leaves.