Contrary to its name, there's nary a tinge of orange in the local fried carrot cake, a flavourful dish that comes in the monochrome colours of black or white.
It is known as "fried carrot cake" or simply "carrot cake" in Southeast Asian countries. One of its main ingredients, can also refer to a carrot, ( literally "red radish"). There is no connection between this dish and the sweet Western carrot cake eaten as a dessert.
This savoury carrot cake has no carrot, at least not of the orange variety. Instead, the core ingredients of the cake are rice flour and white radish which some call white carrot. The mixture is steamed, then cut into cubes and fried with garlic, eggs and preserved radish called 'chai poh'.
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