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The Wondrous Bean

The next time you want to buy some adzuki bean and have no idea what to do with it, we'll tell you how to make it into delicious meals.

Aduki bean - more accurately known as Adzuki Bean or Azuki Bean in Japanese - is a very common food amongst the orients (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). It is simply known as Red Bean (Hong-dou) in Chinese, owing to its deep red colour, and there are not many other beans in China with the same distinctive colour (although it sometimes shares the name with the 'Romantic Bean', which is inedible). It has always been prepared as a dessert rather than a savoury meal, and has never really been portrayed as a health food or anything that does wonders, until recently - outside Asia.

It was merely one of those beans that the Chinese have been consuming for thousands of years. It is widely grown and consumed in China and Korea, and was brought into other Asian countries by their migrants. (For nutrition information see our Nutrition page)

We grew up having Adzuki Bean Soup as our Sunday afternoon tea dessert, for over 20 years. You will be amazed how many different desserts you can make from the bean. Most of them are traditionally inherited through generations; some are created or modified when Adzuki Bean was made popular in other Asian countries (Malaysia, Singapore, etc). Some have even gained market shares in the Asian food industry.

Our main purpose is to demystify the lovely bean, and to share as many of these recipes with you, as we can. The variety will increase through time, starting with the simplest. Hopefully, you would like one of them, or, you might have some of your own recipes and adzuki-related stories to share with us!

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