Coconut bar

Coconut bar
Chinese	椰汁糕
Literal meaning	coconut milk cake
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin 1. yézhī gāo (Taiwan) 2. yēzhī gāo Yue: Cantonese Jyutping je4 zap1 gou1

Coconut bar is a refrigerated dim sum dessert found in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southern China and in overseas Chinatowns. It is sweet and has a soft, gelatin-like texture but is white in color rather than translucent like gelatin. It is sometimes referred to as coconut pudding despite not really being a pudding.

Preparation

The dessert is made of coconut milk (preferably freshly made) and set with a mixture of tang flour (wheat starch) and corn starch, or a mixture of agar agar and gelatin. It is sweetened, and sometimes sprinkled with desiccated coconuts. The texture varies from silky springy (if gelatin and agar agar is used as setting agent) to creamy and texture (if wheat starch and corn starch are used to set the dessert) depending on individual preparations, and the standard dim sum version has no filling.

See also

• Maja blanca
• Mango pudding
• Jell-O
• Haupia