Light and tender Crystal Bao stuffed with smoky Chinese bacon, creamy eggs, and fresh chives, perfect for breakfast.

Your guide to making homemade har gow (with video)! Love Nom Wah or Maxim’s in Hong Kong? These crystal shrimp dumplings are easy!

Amoniaczki – Polish ammonia cookies with crystal sugar.

Vegetarian Crystal Dumplings, or Chiu Chow Dumplings, are tender veggie filled dim sum dumplings in a translucent wrapper.

Firm jelly inside, crunchy shell outside. Kohakutou is a traditional Japanese confection (Wagashi).

Chiuchow style crystal dumplings with an almost translucent skin. These dumplings are bouncy/chewy and filled with some homemade taro paste.

Organic vegan loquat cake with a lemon curd filling carved to look like a crystal cluster with trans flag colored lemon buttercream frosting

Homemade bread with super basic ingredients. This crystal bread is a Spanish style ciabatta bread.

A festive Chinese dessert for the Mid-Autumn festival, with soft and chewy paste and custard filling

Sister dim sum dish to Har Gow, pork and chive crystal dumplings.

Veggie noodle stir fry and my favourite new bargain kitchen gadget for making it.

Raspberry Lemonade – Super easy, almost no calories, and very refreshing on a hot summer day.

How to make authentic crystal steamed prawn dumplings (har gow), just like in the Chinese restaurants

Crystal dumplings are a unique kind of dumpling as they look like crystals on the outside. Here is my recipe for this unique crystal dumpling.