turnip cake

English

Fried turnip cake with chilli sauce.

Noun

turnip cake (countable and uncountable, plural turnip cakes)

1. A savoury Chinese dim sum dish made with radish and usually pan-fried.

   Synonyms: (less common) radish cake, (standard in Singapore) carrot cake, (romanization from Southern Min) chai tow kway

Translations

savoury cake made with radish

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蘿蔔糕 / 萝卜糕 (lo⁴ baak⁶ gou¹)

  Eastern Min: 菜頭粿 / 菜头粿 (chái-tàu-guōi)

  Hakka: 蘿蔔粄 / 萝卜粄 (lò-phe̍t-pán), 菜頭粄 / 菜头粄 (chhoi-thèu-pán)

  Hokkien: 菜頭粿 / 菜头粿 (zh-min-nan) (chhài-thâu-ké)

  Mandarin: 蘿蔔糕 / 萝卜糕 (zh) (luóbogāo)

• Thai: ขนมผักกาด (th)
• Vietnamese: bánh củ cải