This recipe for Mango Pudding draws inspiration from the Asian store-bought fruit jelly cups studded with chewy coconut gel ...

One example of such a natural biomaterial is Nata de Coco, an ingredient commonly used in Asian desserts. Nata de Coco can be found as a jelly, an agar or a pudding with gelatin features.

Sweeten to taste with the condensed milk. Place nata de coco, palm fruit, white beans, red mung beans, sago and mango in a tall clear glass until ⅓ filled. Fill each glass with the crushed ice.

In Hong Kong, it is usually served cold with fresh fruit, nata de coco, evaporated milk, sweetened red bean and coconut milk. Kathy Ng Yiu-fan, a nutritionist at Kat-Spirit Nutrition Centre in ...