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taro cake en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 芋頭糕／芋头糕 (yùtougāo).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A type of savoury Chinese cake made from flour and taro, often topped with fried shallots and chopped spring onions, served either steamed or pan-fried.
   • Thick slices of taro cake, richly flavored with scallops, mushrooms, shrimp, Chinese bacon, and creamy taro, are pan-fried until golden brown and fragrant. 1999, Grace Young, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 130:
   • "Or else," Great-Auntie paused for a moment, as if making a hard decision, "I'll buy you a piece of taro cake?" 2009, George A. Fowler, transl., translated by George A Fowler, Riddles of Belief... and Love—A Story, Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, translation of Grandma's Old Town by Lin Zhe, →ISBN, page 281:
   • While bakeries and snacks (deep‐fried taro chips and deep‐fried baskets – shredded taro molded into basket shapes and then deep‐fried in china – steamed taro cake, taro batter and bread, cakes and chunks in Hawaii), are gaining interest in research and industry, other products remain at the home scale. 2016, Nicolas Y. Njintang, Joel Scher, Carl M. F. Mbofung, “Other Taro-based Products”, in Harish K. Sharma, Nicolas Y. Njintang, Rekha S. Singhal, Pragati Kaushal, editors, Tropical Roots and Tubers: Production, Processing and Technology, Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 395:

Forms

Synonyms

yam cake

Translations (6)

hak 芋粄 (savoury Chinese cake) · yue 芋頭糕 /芋头糕 (savoury Chinese cake) · ms kuih keladi (savoury Chinese cake) · nan-hbl 芋粿 (savoury Chinese cake) · fi jamssikakku (savoury Chinese cake) · cmn 芋頭糕 /芋头糕 (savoury Chinese cake)