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''Put chai ko'' () is a popular snack in Hong Kong. The pudding cake is palm size and is sweet in taste. It is soft, but can hold its molded shape outside a bowl.
The cake is made from white or brown sugar, long-grain rice flour with a little wheat starch or cornstarch. Sometimes red beans are also added. The batter is poured into porcelain bowls and steamed until cooked through. Then it is let cooled and served at room temperature. Traditionally, the hawker inserts two bamboo skewers into the cake to turn it out and the eater holds the skewers to consume. At present, most Put Chai Ko are sold in plastic bags.
''Put chai ko'' recipe
{{Portal, Food Snack foods Hong Kong cuisine Puddings Chinese desserts Steamed foods Cantonese cuisine Rice cakes
''Put chai ko'' () is a popular snack in Hong Kong. The pudding cake is palm size and is sweet in taste. It is soft, but can hold its molded shape outside a bowl.
The cake is made from white or brown sugar, long-grain rice flour with a little wheat starch or cornstarch. Sometimes red beans are also added. The batter is poured into porcelain bowls and steamed until cooked through. Then it is let cooled and served at room temperature. Traditionally, the hawker inserts two bamboo skewers into the cake to turn it out and the eater holds the skewers to consume. At present, most Put Chai Ko are sold in plastic bags.
Names
The snack is also known by a number of English names, including Put chai pudding, Rice Pudding, Earthen bowl cake, Bootjaigo, Red bean pudding or Put chai ko.History
The pudding is made like other traditional Cantonese steamed cakes. It is said to have originated in theChinese
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, which is west of Hong Kong. The pudding reached its popularity peak in the early to mid-1980s when hawkers sold it all over the streets in their push cart
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s. At the time, there were only a small handful of flavors. One of the dish's cultural trademarks is that it is served in a porcelain bowl or an aluminium cup.
The snack is still available today in select Chinese pastry
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or snack shops, or from street hawkers. The pudding can also be served like an ice pop, held up by two bamboo sticks.
Classic Hong Kong flavors
* Plain white sugar * Brown sugar * Plain white sugar withazuki bean
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s
* Brown sugar with any one of the beans in the genus '' Vigna''
See also
* Egg tart * List of steamed foods *Uirō
''Uirō'' (Japanese: , , ), also known as , is a traditional Japanese steamed cake made of glutinous rice flour and sugar. It is chewy, similar to ''mochi'', and subtly sweet. Flavors include azuki bean paste, green tea (matcha), ''yuzu'', ...
- Japanese Wagashi
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''Put chai ko'' recipe
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