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thanks for your replies, plenty to choose from now!! cheers

or perhaps the classic toffee banana or banana fritters.... but if you want something more "chinese" try making soi gow - i think its sweet dumpling thing in english... sorry don't know the proper name! But you serve it in ginger syrup/ soup (tong soi in cantonese, just for the sake of being oriental ) this is quite a fiddly tricky desert but it will definately impress anyone, because its well... hard to make! well i think so... maybe my culinary skills is ermm.. shall we say limited? But this is a recipe handed down to me by my mother...

Anyway what you need is:
for the ginger syrup:
25g fresh ginger smashed
225g sugar
350ml hot water

Swirl the ginger and sugar constantly over a low heat until the sugar browns or starts to smoke. Then pour in water - take care at this stage! Boil until the sugar dissolves. Then set aside and cool. Discard the ginger too.

for the filling:
50g dried yellow mung beans soaked in warm water for 30mins and drained.
1 1/2 tbsp sugar (or to taste)
2 tbsp sesame seeds toasted by dry frying
for a variation you could use peanuts aswell make sure they're dry fried and chopped coursely for crunch!

Boil the mung beans for about 20mins until cooked. Transfer to foodprocessor and process to a fine paste with the sugar. Then put it in the fridge to firm up.
meanwhile put the sesame seeds in a foodprocessor and process to a fine paste. Then combine with the mung beans (and add peanuts if wished) and mix well. Set aside.

for the dough:
225g glutinous rice flour
250ml warm water

Mix the water and flour quickly to form a sticky dough. Cover and leave to stand for 5mins.
Then on a floured surface knead the dough until soft and smooth for 3mins. Then divide into 2 parts and roll each part into a sausage about 1" diameter. Cut into portions. Then for each portion flatten the dough balls into discs about 2 1/2 " diameter.
Assemble and place a ball of the filling into each disc and gather the edges and seal into a ball.

Bring a large pot of water to the boil and put the dumplings into the pot. The dumplings are ready when they rise up. Drain and serve in a bowl with the reheated syrup. You could go over the top and garnish with more toasted sesame seeds.

Hope you find this useful! or you could go with the other suggestions if you haven't got enough time to do this! Usually this is done with a group of friends or family and its kinda a social thing... great fun... can get sticky with the dough be warned... if so cover surface and hands with the flour!

chocolate ginger lychees. lychee peeled, scoop out centre fill with sliver of ginger then coat in chocolate.they also like icecream,melon balls in champagne, with sugared grapes hanging of side of glass. x

There is a recipe on this site for a chinese pudding called eight treasure wok pudding I also checked my enclyopedia and the only chinese pudding recipe is called toffeed apple which is basically apple pieces deep fried in batter then added to a toffee sauce made with sesame oil and sugar and sesame seeds.

some classic chinese desserts include. fruit fritters, egg custard tarts, sesame dumplings, mango pudding, tapioca soups.

I googled and found this link.

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