Two bakeries, one iconic dessert. As a sprightly challenger reinvents the pandan cake, can it topple the years-long reign of ...

At a certain point during Carnival season, after the third or fourth or tenth king cake, you may be looking to break out of ...

After living in Southeast Asia almost seven years, I go by the golden rule: If you see pandan on a menu, order it ...

From an iconic dessert to a ‘missing’ Malaysian influencer, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting.

A visit to Dong Thap’s pandan rice cake maker unveils a story of tradition, resilience, and culinary artistry maintained over half a century. Tasting a warm bite of bánh đúc (pandan rice cake), ...

Waiting in line at Coda Bakery, the acclaimed Vietnamese restaurant in the International District, is an exercise in ...

Brinias shared slices of bright-green pandan cake with the team, although her cake benefited more from addition of food coloring than the natural pandan leaf color. In a web extra, Brinias ...

And although it has the same light green hue as matcha, the taste is wildly different. “Pandan is cake flavor in plant form!” says Kelly Jacques, co-owner and chef at Ayu Bakehouse in New Orleans.