Dessert

This is a traditional Shanghainese dessert that I grew up eating. It has a beautiful name in Chinese: 心太软 (a heart too soft) due to the soft mochi center and natural sweet flavor from the jujube date. If you don't have jujube dates, you can substitute with medjool dates. I hope you enjoy this blood-nourishing, naturally sweet dessert!  

Olive oil cake is a simple, elegant, and delicious. Here at Five Seasons TCM, we've added a dampness-reducing blend of lotus seed, coix seed, and fu ling to the batter for their wonderful medicinal benefits. Naturally dairy-free, this cake is so easy to make! We pair it using a unique currant compote made with goji, jujube, and red currant.

This light cake recipe is adapted from a seasonal Chinese dessert for the spring called 朴籽粿, which translates to Pu Zi Steamed Cake for its use of Pu Zi leaves for its green color and detoxing function. Our recipe uses Jie Cai as an alternative, you can also use any other fresh green leaves that is available to you. To learn how to make the steamed cake step by step, using more practical ingredients and methods, you can check out this video on IG made by our founder Zoey Gong, a TCM nutritionist and chef. We've also linked a video below showing...

Muffins and many other baked goods tend to cause yin-deficiency and excessive heat in our body due to the drying cooking method and high amount of refined sugar, dairy, and fat. In this unique recipe, we added pear and chrysanthemum, two amazing yin-nourishing and cooling ingredients in TCM to give muffins a more balanced energetics. Nonetheless, they are still delicious and taste like a regular muffin!