Fried carrot cake

Recently I introduced Fried Carrot Cake to my kids and now this item is under one of their favourite. I love my Fried Carrot Cake with dark sauce and lots of chai poh 菜葡 (prickle vegetable). Long ago, I watched a TV program on how this chef helped a lady to create a recipe and help her to start a food stall with it. It was very inspiring and I admire the chef for his unselfishness to share. I really hope our TV station will work towards such program rather than all those slapstick. I noticed…

I love Fried Carrot Cake and recently my girl too got hooked to it. I love it with black sauce and a lot of chai poh. These days, getting a good one is hard to come by. One of the stalls I visited often is at Kovan as I like mine a little charred and yet sweet. Thus for this month AFF event, I decided to try my hand at this. I pick the recipe from Recipes are simple and was surprised that the blog owner is actually a Non-Singaporean and non-Chinese. Learning experience: The texture is good…

This is the crispy pancake version of Singapore fried carrot cake, though there's some debate over whether it should be called radish cake instead since it uses radish, and not carrot. But then again, sometimes it does not contain radish, so should it be just called rice cake? The radish (or daikon - I think they are similar) gives it a subtle sweetness and flavour. I do like the radish cake to be soft, so the proportion of water to rice flour I've used is about 2:1. After it's fried, the…

Observing an expert is always a good way to learn. I learned how to fry this from watching the hawker stall owner while waiting for my...

Chai Tow Kway is a traditional Teochew cuisine that has gained much popularity in South East Asia. Not to be mistaken as the sweet carrot cake eaten as a dessert, Chai Tow Kway is also known as ‘fried carrot cake’ as the word for the main ingredient, daikon also refers to ‘carrot’. This much loved recipe is a popular street side dish available in night markets and yum cha places.

Singapore-based chefs tell us which stalls they head to when they are hankering for carrot cake

In Singapore, carrot cake is not the sweet cake covered with cream cheese frosting. Instead, you get a savory pan fried omelette filled with crispy, tender cubes of glutinous radish "cake".

INTRODUCTION This is a very common hawker delicacy in Singapore and Malaysia. I only know it was called as Char Kuih （炒粿） in Kuching, Sarawak…But in Singapore it is also common in food court or haw…

Observing an expert is always a good way to learn. I learned how to fry this from watching the hawker stall owner while waiting for my...

Can't believe it myself! I am making my own stir fried radish cake. Stir fried radish cake is a common street food and also dim sum di...