The Chinese very
rarely eat desserts, reserving them for banquets,
formal dinners, or one of the many festivals that
the Chinese celebrate.
Fresh fruit in season
is a good choice for people who like to finish a
meal with something sweet. Fortune cookies are
always baked commercially and are available, in
packages, from Chinese specialty stores. Moon cakes,
which are also available from stores, are never
prepared at home as they are time-consuming and
require a long list of unusual ingredients. The
cakes are filled with a lightly sweetened, rich-red
soybean paste and are exchanged as gifts at the Moon
Festival, during September.
Fruit ices are another
suitable dessert for a Chinese meal. Marco Polo was
introduced to these on his voyage to China and
brought the idea back to the Western world.
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