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Q: Why does Chinese cheese cake not taste like cream cheese?

I ate cheese cake from bakeries. They look like cheese cake, almost taste like cheese cake, but they aren't made from cream chese. Anybody know what they are made from? Soya?

12 years 11 weeks ago in  Food  - China

 
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Some of the major supermarkets / department stores carry Western-known brands of cream cheese, most of it being Australian in origin.  Again, this might be a regional issue.  Where I am, the cheese cake very much tastes like its Western counterpart but that varies from bakery to bakery in the city.

I have never heard of cream cheese made from soya milk but all things are possible.

In any case, why not make your own?  It's very difficult at all to make a cheese cake.  There are many easy recipes available on the web.

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I think it's more of a custard. I know there's no cream cheese in it. While it doesn't taste bad, it doesn't taste the way I want it to.

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the bakery has good custards tho

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Whipped cream?

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They add cake mix to the batch, so it is in fact a cake made with cheese not a cheese cake.

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Come on thumbs down everything I say. rnrnPlease I like it thumbs down some more.

 
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I searched hard for good cakes in Beijing. At the end I came up to this place called Cheese Home (Zhangzizhonglu station exit D, turn right and walk for approx. 30 meters). Their cakes are AMAZING. They get chocolate from Belgium, vanilla beans from Madagascar and cream from New Zealand. I'll just say that I'm Italian and their Tiramisu was almost as good as my mother's. I've been there several times already and I recommend you try their Tiramisu, cinnamon apples cake and chocolate banana cheesecake. They also serve good fresh coffee from Rickshaw Roasters. Best espresso in town. Go check it out and let me know Wink

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Polybutylethylsuplonylbullshitilemelamine bullshate

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Yep...... shitload of chemical flavors and additives in cakes from the regular Chinese bakeries..

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Since I posted this I have found cheese cake that tastes like cheese cake. It is plain, anything with a topping is fake.

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Whaaat? Why would cheese cake ever taste like cream cheese?

 

I'm from New York and I love Cheesecake but I hate cream cheese (especially the philly cream cheese).

 

All the Cheesecakes I've ever eaten in my life taste nothing like cream cheese.  The Cheese cakes in China taste as I would expect them to and very similar to NY style cheese cakes, except no where near as fresh and yummy.

 

 

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I only had one in China- one of the more disappointing food experiences in my life. If I had to take a punt, I'd have said it was probably made fro silken tofu, to look like Cheesecake. 

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  Because traditional cheese cake is made from cream cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla and sour cream, and Chinese cheese cake is made from old socks.

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The closest I have found is a restaurant in Nanning called Babels, not perfect but pretty close.

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Some cheese cake is not cheese cake. i ate at a coffee shop  near where my wife use to live at and we tried their cheese cake , it was a sponge cake recipe made in the form of cheese cake.

i found one place so far that has made real tiramisu that is the Milano Italian Resturant in Qingdao.

Most true ingrediants are hard to come by in china so they substitute alot. 

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China doesn't do cheese.

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