Orange Cream Pudding

Fruits are the preferred close to most traditional Chinese meals, but gelatine and ice-cream desserts are popular too. To my taste, many of the jellied desserts are rather rubbery in texture, perhaps reflecting the Chinese passion for textured foods. But I have taken an orange-fruit dessert that I have had in Hong Kong restaurants and reduced the amount of gelatine in the recipe. The result is a silky custard-like dessert, only slightly firm but textured enough. A bonus is that it takes abo