curd

Cutting the gel helps some of the whey, or water, separate from the cheese curd, which is made of aggregated milk and looks like a yogurt gel.

The cheesemaker's goal is to remove as much whey and moisture from the curd as they need to for their specific recipe.

To do so, the cheesemaker might stir or heat up the curd, which helps release whey and moisture.

He then capitalized on this, reinventing those familiar flavors at Ruse with a watermelon sorbet with lime curd and crunchy chocolate pearls.

Fans also line up on weekends for its rice rolls, chicken sticky rice, egg yolk buns and bean curd wrap with pork and enoki mushroom.