Carrot cake chai tow kway

Singapore · Southeast Asia

Short description: This hawker-style stir-fry is soft, eggy, and savory, with white and dark versions offering different levels of sweetness.
Ingredients: Radish rice-flour cake, eggs, preserved radish, garlic, dark or sweet soy sauce, fish sauce or soy sauce, scallions, white pepper, and oil.
Cultural note: It is associated with breakfast stalls and late-night plates where chopped radish cake is fried to order on a hot griddle.
Common misconception: The name does not refer to orange carrot cake dessert; the base is a steamed radish-and-rice-flour cake.

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creator:: Ruth Ellison from Canberra, Australia
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY 2.0
modified:: Copied from Wikimedia Commons and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.