Honeydew Pudding

Traditionally, Chinese dinners and banquets have no proper dessert course. Instead, fresh fruits may be offered, sometimes presented dramatically, with the fruits elaborately carved and set on dry ice which sends off smokelike vapours, a cooling, refreshing contrast to the highly seasoned, hot dishes that had comprised the dinner. However, dessert courses are now making their appearance on a regular basis in Hong Kong restaurants. Still linked to tradition, they tend to make use of fruit as