carrot cake

English

Etymology

The Singaporean senses are calque of Hokkien 菜頭粿 / 菜头粿 (chhài-thâu-kóe / chhài-thâu-ké / chhài-thâu-kér, literally “radish cake”), which may have arisen from a confusion between Hokkien 菜頭 / 菜头 (chhài-thâu, “radish”) and 紅菜頭 / 红菜头 (âng-chhài-thâu, “carrot”, literally “red radish”).

Noun

carrot cake (countable and uncountable, plural carrot cakes)

  1. A sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.
  2. (Singapore) Turnip cake; radish cake (a savoury cake containing radish, usually pan-fried).
  3. (Singapore) Synonym of chai tow kway (“a dish of stir-fried radish cakes and eggs”).

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