Ingredients

100g old ginger
360ml milk
1 tablespoon caster sugar, or to taste

If you love the taste of ginger…

Instructions

1.Using a microplane or grater, grate the ginger and squeeze out the juice through muslin (cheesecloth) or a fine sieve into a bowl. You need 2 tablespoonfuls of juice. You should see a fine layer of white starch.
2.Put 1 tablespoon of juice into each of two bowls.
3.Heat the milk and sugar to 60-65°C, stirring until the sugar has dissolved.
4.Stir the ginger juice, then pour the milk from a height of about 10cm into the ginger juice.
5.Don’t stir and don’t move the bowls.
6.Leave for 5-10 minutes to set. Serve warm or chilled.


Edited extract from Hong Kong Food City by Tony Tan
Published by Murdoch Books, distributed by Allen & Unwin
RRP $55
Photography by Greg Elms.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.