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preserved sour plum
Salted dried plums are a popular snack in China, Korea, and Japan, and brought by Chinese immigra...
New Year cake
New Year cake is a steamed cake made with sticky rice, often served fried or dipped in egg and fr...
popcorn chicken rice
Taiwanese popcorn chicken is a particularly crunchy and spicy (seasoned with Sichuan pepper) stre...
shrimp chips
Deep-fried shrimp-flavored chips, similar to potato chips (there's also a version shaped more lik...
fish siu mai
A popular street snack, siu mai filled with minced fish. 魚肉 is fish meat, and 燒賣 is siu mai.
Chinese doughnut
Sweetened fried dough in an elliptical shape (really, like a doughnut) that supposedly resembles ...
pineapple cake
Pineapple cakes, small butter shortcakes with a pineapple filling, are a Taiwanese specialty. The...
taro paste pastry
flaky puff pastrypastry) filled with taro paste.
salted egg yolk pastry
Also known as Taiwanese mooncakes, this flaky puff pastrypastry) is filled with salted egg yolk. ...
preserved egg pastry
Flaky puff pastrypastry) filled with preserved egg. 酥 is pastrypastry), so 蛋黃酥 is egg yolk pastry.
mung bean pastry
Flaky puff pastrypastry) filled with mung bean. 綠豆 is mung bean (綠 is green, and 豆 is bean, but ...
lotus seed pastry
Flaky puff pastrypastry) filled with lotus seed paste.
paper-wrapped cake
Paper-wrapped cake is a muffin-like cake common in Hong Kong and Chinatown bakeries, baked in a p...
turnip cake
A standard dim sum offering and also a traditional Chinese New Year dishm, turnip cakes are not m...