Coconut Tapioca Dessert with Sweet Rice Balls

This coconut tapioca dessert with homemade sweet rice balls and fruit is our take on the sweet soups and desserts loved in many Asian countries.

Pandan Khanom Chan (Layered Rice Sweets)

Khanom Chan lie totally outside the Western dessert canon, and can be a refreshing change-up from more typical desserts. To the uninitiated, the texture's a surprise, like the chewy tapioca pearls in bubble tea or elastic balls of mochi. Its...

Banh Chung for Lunar New Year

In areas with a sizable Vietnamese community, you can find banh chung around Lunar New Year. Stacked in neat bricks, sometimes even warm, the sign of a good banh chung is one that's meaty, hefty, and tightly rolled. Here's a recipe and how-to.

Buko Pandan (Filipino Dessert Salad With Coconut and Pandan)

A creamy and refreshing fruit salad made with pandan jelly and coconut cream.

Sangkhaya (Thai Coconut Custard Dip)

Serve this sweet, creamy pandan-flavored custard as you would fondue: at a table with good friends and plenty of bread cubes.

Thai-Inspired Coconut-Pandan Rice Pudding With Fresh Mango

[Photograph: Leela Punyaratabandhu] An easier, quicker, more stovetop-friendly version of the iconic Thai dessert, Khao Niao Ma-muang, this coconut rice pudding and mango retains all of the flavors found in the original dish by which it is inspired. Pandan leaves...

Sweet Coconut Soup with Fruit Pearls

Sweet dessert soups are common in East and South East Asia. I'm partial to those made with coconut milk, which make a silky base for inclusions of fruit, red bean, tapioca pearls, and jellies. Spherified fruit juices combine the best of these add-ins: intense fruit flavor with a dynamic, juicy texture. I used guava juice, but use whatever flavors (perhaps in combination) you like. You can even dilute flavored syrups (like ginger or cinnamon) in water for your fruit juice. Just stay away from aci...

Pandan Chiffon Cake

This moist tropical cake rocks coconut milk and the bright green essence of pandan leaf, a popular Southeast Asian ingredient.

Halo-Halo (Filipino Shaved Ice Dessert)

Shaved ice, fruit, tapioca pearls, evaporated milk, ube ice cream, and leche flan.

Khao Niao Mamuang (Thai Coconut Sticky Rice With Mango)

This Thai dessert of glutinous sticky rice, seasoned with salty-sweet coconut milk and served with tender, fragrant slices of mango, will be irresistible.