Yakgwa is a fried wheat cookie — a dough of flour, sesame oil, honey, rice wine, and ginger juice, pressed into a carved flower-shaped mold, fried slowly in warm oil until golden, then submerged in a honey and ginger syrup for at least twenty-four hours. The syrup penetrates the cookie completely during the soaking period, […]

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Cascaron are small, round, deep-fried rice balls — glutinous rice flour mixed with grated coconut, coconut milk, and sugar, rolled into golf ball-sized spheres and fried until the outside is crunchy and caramelized, while the interior stays dense and chewy in the way that glutinous rice always does when heat gets to it. They are […]

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