甜Desserts

Traditional Taiwanese sweets lean on beans, tubers and fruit rather than butter and cream: sweet red-bean and mung-bean soups, silky douhua tofu pudding, taro and sweet potato balls, and summer mountains of shaved ice under mango. The buttery pineapple cake, a crumbly pastry filled with pineapple jam, is the pastry people most often carry home as a gift.