You know one way to celebrate the Lunar
New Year is with delicious baked treats.
Look at these adorable tiger
striped bread goodies.
Oh my goodness, so many fun things
here and they all came to me from
Katlu who runs the Instagram account.
Subtle Asian baking.
So subtle Asian baking is a global group
that's very inclusive and diverse,
and it's all about baking the Asian way.
I founded this group in 2020,
right around when the pandemic just
started and everyone was baking and I
wanted to bake things that I had in Japan.
I just came back from a trip,
but there's not much that you can
find in in this area very close.
You have to drive to get all those goodies,
and then I also looked online for recipes
and I found a lot of different websites,
but it didn't find a space where
you can connect with other.
Bakers who are also interested
in baking be Asian way.
You said the Asian way. What does that mean?
A subtle Asian way.
So as long as you use like an
ingredient or an inspiration,
or you have a story to tell,
or a technique like steaming,
boiling and frying, that's all
part of the Asian way of faking.
I love it. So what have you got there for us
right here? I have a lot of the traditional
goodies that I have during Lunar New Year.
So my background is my my mom is
from Hong Kong and my dad is.
Vietnamese, and so I made a meme go
which means good year in Cantonese.
So it's a mochi type of cake
that you steam you.
You steam it as a gift for other
people and then after you put
it into the fridge, it hardens.
And then you could also cut it, slice it,
and then you could fry it into a fry Bengal,
which I have here, yes,
so we have good.
Yeah that we have for breakfast
so it's kind of like a pancake.
It's gluten free.
It's chilly, it's delicious.
I made it green.
It's traditionally brown with brown sugar,
but I made it with Pandan,
which is a very fragrant leaf that
makes your goodies nice and green and
it's sort of like the vanilla of Asia.
People like to say that they have,
of course, egg tarts.
You don't have to have that
during Lunar New Year.
You can have it at dim sum.
You could have it anytime you want.
I have a milk bread croissant that
I made by myself, like of course,
and then a winter melon cake,
mochi, and then you have cookies.
So these are like walnut cookies or
almond cookies that look like gold.
So it's very auspicious for the new year.
So you want auspicious foods during
the new year to bring good luck.
I
love it and traditionally isn't
there an almond baked into the tub?
Yes, yes, so this one I did with walnut,
but you could change up the recipe
and use the almond instead.
OK, you're making my mouth water
really wishing so much that I could
be eating these treats right now.
What is that cake in front of you? Yes,
I also made a chiffon cake so my husband
is Filipino so my son is half Filipino.
So in the Philippines you also
do celebrate Lunar New Year.
So I wanted to make a booby
booby chiffon cake so it's all
eleven with whipped egg whites.
Very fluffy, very delicious,
very soft, the same types of cakes
that you would find in Asian bakeries.
And Dube is a purple sweet yam
from the Philippines and it's
very trendy right now. Yes
OK so wait, how do you
turn a yam into a cake?
Well, for this one I will.
I will not lie. I did usuba extract,
but you could definitely add jam
Uber halaya jam into the batter.
OK got it alright what have
you got in front of you?
So here are in milk breads that are
carrot flavored so it's bread made
with milk and butter and I put some
carrot powder into it and then I
made little cute tie your faces for
the year of the tiger for Lunar New
Year and if you want to make tiger
faces you could just take some white
chocolate and then put it in like that.
And that will be your nose.
And then you just put some eyes with
melted chocolate and some whiskers.
And
they're super cute.
OK, that is so cute.
Let me see. Oh my gosh,
that's so great. Thank you.
Why is food such an important
part of Lunar New Year? I think
it's because it's brings people together
and you could cook with your family.
And then you know it's a lot of it is
about bringing luck and Fortune too.
So you wanna eat foods that you will eat
throughout the year you wanna share?
Groups that you love and you want to
share foods that have good meaning, right?
So things that are golden would
bring you wealth.
Eating a fish would bring you
fortune throughout the year.
I think food is just such a big part of
culture and a big part of your everyday life.
So you must have it during Lunar
New Year bread when you cut it,
it looks like a tiger.
Tiger stripes year of the tiger.
Oh my gosh, so cute and so delicious.