By The Editor · Photos by My de Sortiraparis · Published on January 7, 2025 at 8:49 a.m.
On the occasion of the Chinese Lunar New Year 2025, we are visiting pastries and sweet places in Paris to treat ourselves and awaken our taste buds to new Asian flavors.
There are many Chinese or Asian pastries other than Japanese mochi and coconut pearls. Far from the image of French pastries, chinese desserts, Vietnamese or even Korean instead come in the form of Vietnamese-style liquid desserts, rice cakes and sticky balls.
Fortunately for lovers of new flavors, France has become a master of the art of fusion of cultures. This is why in Paris, pastries et tea rooms marrying French pastries et flavors of Asia are legion, just like the 100% Asian pastries. Enough to make some very nice discoveries, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.
For the Chinese New Yearone of the first dishes that comes to mind is moon cakeundoubtedly because it is one of the rare desserts emblematic of Chinese gastronomy. But it is worth noting that it is, in reality, not a New Year's cake, but rather a pastry eaten on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Moon Festival. So we forget this pastry for Chinese New Year!
Among the classics to be found in Paris, there are, on the other hand, the fried sesame balls ! A very popular dish found in different Asian countries, such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and even China. Inside a crispy coating sprinkled with sesame hides a paste of yellow mung beans, melting to the core. Made from rice flour, it can be eaten while still hot and just cooked!
We find it just as easily on the menu of gastronomic restaurants in the capital, some even starred, such as the Shang Palace, at Asian caterers such as the Chinese Canteen or even among street vendors in the 13th, like in China or elsewhere.
THE Vietnamese sesame frittersnamed Banh Tieuare also enjoyed on the occasion of Lunar New Year ! Tasty fried donuts, soft and puffy, to enjoy as a snack or even for breakfast.
Among the desserts to be found in the 13th arrondissement and in the Chinese pastriesthere is also the whipped cream cakean ultra-soft cake filled with different flavors: red beans, mango, strawberry or, most famously, durian, this famous fruit with such a particular smell that some love and others hate. It can be found at Pâtisserie Saison, Pâtisserie de Choisy or at Fu Castella for a version in the form of sponge cake. fluffy.
La Pâtisserie de Choisy, the nugget of the 13th century and its Asian specialties
La Pâtisserie de Choisy is a well-known address in the 13th arrondissement of the capital. For several generations, this spot has been delighting local regulars and gourmets from the four corners of the capital with Vietnamese and Chinese specialties. [Lire la suite]
Fu Castella and its delicious soft and airy cakes
Do you know castella? This pastry of Portuguese origin finally arrives in Paris, at Fu Castella, a nice boutique-tea room. We bet you will love this thin and soft cake! [Lire la suite]
Fu Castella opens a pastry shop – tea room in the Marais for divine snacks and tea time
Fu Castella is the pastry shop with ultra-soft cakes that is already all the rage in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The house is now located in the Marais, Paris 4th, to offer you a beautiful tea room offering exotic sweets, original tea time, ice creams and cold and hot drinks to experiment with. [Lire la suite]
@unreve, the sublime Franco-Asian café-tea room
@unreve, this is the name of the new coffee shop, tea room and pastry shop which has opened on Avenue Parmentier in the 11th arrondissement in Paris. Imagine a nice marriage between the best of coffee shops and Asian flavors and you are in the right mood. [Lire la suite]
La Pâtisserie de Saison, a sweet and savory Chinese pastry from the 13th century
La Pâtisserie de Saison is one of the oldest Chinese pastries in the 13th arrondissement, located on the famous Avenue d'Ivry. We enjoy original banh mi, baos, filled puff pastries or even super soft rolls that oscillate between tradition and new flavors. [Lire la suite]
Fu, the coffee shop and brunch pastry shop in Paris 13th, which takes you to Asia
A new pastry shop – coffee shop with Asian flavors, does that tempt you? Matcha, sesame, pandan but also durian and kimchi, revive the cakes and dishes of this new spot which is opening in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. From breakfast to lunch and snack, of course, there are unusual treats and brunch every day. We take you to discover it. [Lire la suite]
Finally, if you want to discover a lovely marriage between fine pastries and Asian flavors, go and discover the pastry-tea room called Molle, located avenue d'Ivry in the 13th arr. but also rue au Maire in the 3rd arr. Crepe cakes with mango, lychee, rose and durian, Opera revisited with matcha, red bean cakes or even cheesecakes diverse and varied await you there.
Happy Lunar New Year, Chinese New YearTet… everyone!
