![]() Next time, I think we’ll try to cut back on some of the sugar. Awesome! I also like that we took the time to make our own red bean filling rather than buy pre-made. Or, I could take the red bean paste and make ice cream out of it. I think these would be fun to make for happy hour snacks one day – maybe I’ll do a Dim Sum themed day. New dessert for our October supper club Thanks fuchsiadunlop for her recipe in thelandofriceandfish. So, in not too much time, I had a super cool & really tasty birthday dessert of red bean crepes with an espresso martini to wash them down! 'Crispy pumpkin and glutinous rice cake stuffed with a red bean paste. The filling didn’t take too long, and he’s really good at making crepes. So, he was really excited to learn that he could make these pastries, and he could make them pretty easily. He lived in Japan for a few years as a child. We also got the ingredients to make the red been crepes as well as a couple of red bean buns from the bakery for comparison sake.ĭan also grew up eating these little red bean pastries. (Some people want jewelery for their birthday, I want tofu.) We got different kinds of noodles, beans, veggies, all kinds of exotic items that my grocery store just doesn’t have. I bought 3: tofu noodles, dried tofu, and a marinated tofu. Then, we headed into the store for some serious shopping. I was stuffed! It was all so yummy and I can’t wait to go back for more Dim Sum. It was awesome! We had some spicy tofu, a shrimp noodle dish, scallops, and a lotus bun. ![]() We stopped for Dim Sum (the first time I’ve had Dim Sum) for lunch. We needed to get the ingredients for the treats, so I decided that as part of my birthday outings, I’d love to go poke around in the Ranch 99 store again, both in the bakery and the grocery store. Though, in a way, they kind of remind me of some French pastries, like a croissant filled with sweet almond paste is fairly reminiscent of these Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) bean filled confections. Heat the pan with azuki beans over medium heat. Add sugar and gently mix the sugar into the azuki beans using a soft spatula. At the bottom of the bowl, you will see a thick layer of the azuki bean powder diluted in the liquid. The pastry was crispy and flaky, and the fillings were sweet and dense. Gently tilt the bowl of liquid and drain the liquid slowly. There was always a bakery at the front, and we would pick up little pastries filled with red bean paste, or green bean paste, or lotus paste, or whatever looked yummy. When I was younger, my mom and I would go to Ranch 99 Market.
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