taro cake

plural taro cakes

1. countableuncountableA 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.

   "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

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: yam cake