SWEETS
Buy Asian Sweets: Huge Selection at Asia Foodstore
Sweets are hugely popular across Asia. In our shop, you can buy over 600 Asian sweet products – from the beloved mochis to steamed, fluffy rice cakes with coconut, bean-filled pancakes, and matcha (green tea) baumkuchen – we have the right treats for every taste and fan of sweet delicacies. Discover our wide range of typical Asian sweets now.
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Cultural Aspects of Asian Sweets
Asian sweets are not only diverse, exotic, and delicious – they often also have a ritual or festive significance and are given, offered, or enjoyed on special occasions. Mooncakes in China symbolize unity and prosperity and are gifted during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Japanese mochis are eaten on New Year’s and represent good fortune and longevity. Modak (rice or dough dumpling with a sweet filling) is a traditional Indian dessert offered to the god Ganesha and holds special religious significance. The traditional Indonesian sweet Klepon (small, round balls made from steamed glutinous rice or rice flour dough with a liquid core) is often served at special events as a gesture of hospitality. Many Asian sweets are more than just snacks – they reflect the customs and culture of Asia.
What Types of Asian Sweets Are There?
Asian sweets and snacks come in all kinds of textures, unusual flavors, and taste combinations. They can be grouped into the following categories:
- Sweets made from rice flour: Mochi, Tteok & more: Rice-based confectionery is an essential part of Asian dessert culture. This includes various types of mochi – usually filled with sweet ingredients like red bean, peanut, matcha, or black sesame, Daifuku (a soft mochi variant with fruit or cream filling), wifecake (a tasty snack cake), and Tteok (Korean rice cakes with a sweet twist, e.g. with honey or nuts)
- Jellies, puddings & fruity desserts: Light and refreshing treats, often based on coconut milk, agar-agar, or fruit juices: Fruity jellies with nata de coco, mango pudding, lychee jelly, and coconut or pandan jelly. Also discover jujube, a popular candied date snack.
- Pastries & crispy snacks: Asian sweet pastries come in great variety: Pocky / Pepero (sticks coated with matcha, chocolate, or strawberry), sweet glazed rice crackers, wafer rolls with cream filling, cookies with coconut or sesame
- Candies & chewy sweets: From fruity to herbal – there’s something for everyone, and the selection is large: Fruit candies (yuzu, mango, lychee), milk and cream candies, ginger or herbal sweets with cooling or warming effects, matcha, taro, or durian chews. Especially popular: Gingerbons – soft chews made with real ginger, sweet and spicy, ideal during colds or to aid digestion.
- Chocolates in new flavors and unique creations –> matcha chocolate or chocolate mochi, special KitKat varieties from Japan (e.g. wasabi, sakura, sake), and the popular Choco Pie
- Beans, nuts & sesame: The savory-sweet combination, beloved in Asia, is often used in these snacks: Anko (red bean paste), mung bean cookies, peanut snacks with sugar coating, sesame balls with sweet filling
- Matcha, Oolong & more: Ideal sweets for tea ceremonies – not only tasty but often with a subtle, slightly bitter flavor: Matcha mochi or cookies, green tea candies or chocolate, sweets flavored with jasmine or oolong tea for tea lovers
- Exotic & regional specialties: Durian treats (candies, chips), sweet seaweed snacks, sweet taro snack, pandan cake, or coconut cubes
What Makes Asian Sweets Special?
Asian sweets differ significantly from those in the Western world. Their textures, flavors, and ingredients are particularly diverse, unique, and exotic. They are less sweet, as they are not typically sweetened with refined sugar like in Western sweets, but with ingredients such as coconut, matcha, taro, or beans. Palm sugar, coconut blossom sugar, or rice syrup are also commonly used as alternatives.
The Asian kitchen includes unusual ingredients like sticky rice, rice flour, beans, sesame, sweet potato, taro (a root vegetable), pandan (a tropical leaf with vanilla notes), seaweed, and durian in sweet dishes and desserts.
Chewy, jelly-like, and slippery textures and consistencies – as found in mochis, jelly beans, or glutinous rice cakes – are common and highly appreciated in Asian sweets.
Typical flavorings such as matcha, pandan, yuzu (a citrus fruit), or rosewater often have a cultural significance or are tied to ceremonial traditions.
Attention to detail, aesthetics and symbolism play an important role, especially in Japanese sweets – e.g. Wagashi (artistically shaped rice cakes for tea ceremonies)
Serving temperature & ways of consumption often differ from what we're used to. Many Asian sweets, desserts, and snacks are served cold or chilled (e.g. bingsu, jellies, or mochi). Some desserts, like sticky rice, are served warm.
Unusual sweet-and-savory combinations are popular in Asia – e.g. peanut and sugar, beans and coconut, or rice cakes with soy sauce.
Buy Asian Sweets Now at Asia Foodstore
Discover our wide range of Asian sweets in our online shop. We offer everything that makes the hearts of dessert, snack, and sweet lovers beat faster. Whether sweets from Japan, India, China, Vietnam, Thailand, or Indonesia – the Asia Foodstore has it all. There’s something for every taste and craving.
Do you have questions about our sweet selection, your order, or shipping? Use our contact form or send us an email. Our customer service will be happy to help you.
FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions About Asian Sweets
Why buy Asian sweets at Asia Foodstore?
- Wide selection: Choose from your favorite Asian sweets – mochi, soy pudding, banana chip rolls, sticky rice cakes, rice crackers, and more.
- Premium quality: We only offer products from well-known manufacturers.
- Fast delivery: Your order will arrive quickly and securely packaged.
- Free shipping: Free shipping within Germany on orders over €49.
- Flexible payment: Choose from our various secure payment options.
Are there vegan or gluten-free sweets?
Yes, some products are vegan or gluten-free – just check the product description or use our filter function on the left side under “Product Features.”
Are Asian sweets very sweet?
Not necessarily – many Asian sweets are less sweet than Western ones and offer exciting flavors like matcha, sesame, yuzu, or bean paste.