How to pronounce Chwee kueh

Chwee kueh is written 水粿 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tsui kue/. In plain English letters that is CHWEE kway, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Chwee kueh?

Chwee kueh is a snack of Singapore. Where it comes from: Hawker centres. People usually eat it for breakfast and as a snack. Its main ingredients are rice and vegetables. It tastes savory.

Where Chwee kueh comes from

Chwee kueh is one of 12 signature dishes of Singapore on this map.

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  Hainanese chicken rice is poached chicken, served at room temperature with rice cooked in chicken fat and stock with garlic, ginger and pandan leaves, plus chilli sauce, dark soy and ginger paste.

• Chilli crab 辣椒螃蟹 · Main dish · East Coast

  Chilli crab is mud crab stir-fried in a sweet, sour and mildly spicy sauce of tomato, chilli and egg, eaten with fried or steamed mantou buns to mop up the sauce.

• Kaya toast · Bread & pastry · Kopitiam coffee shops

  Kaya toast is toasted bread filled with kaya, a sweet jam of coconut milk, eggs and sugar flavoured with pandan, and slabs of cold butter.

• Hokkien prawn mee 福建虾面 · Noodles & pasta · Hawker centres

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• Bak chor mee 肉脞面 · Noodles & pasta · Hawker centres

  Bak chor mee, "minced pork noodles", is a Singapore hawker dish of egg noodles with minced pork, braised mushrooms, pork meatballs and other toppings, served either dry, tossed in a sauce, or in soup.

• Chai tow kway 菜头粿 · Street food · Hawker centres

  Chai tow kway, also called char kway and known in Singapore as carrot cake, has nothing to do with the European cake of that name.

Food of Singapore

Dishes like Chwee kueh in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Chwee kueh:

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  Bánh xèo, "sizzling cake", is named for the sound the batter makes when it hits the hot pan.

• Khai paen ໄຄແຜ່ນ · Snack · Luang Prabang, Laos

  Kaipen are crisp sheets of river weed from northern Laos, especially popular in Luang Prabang.

• Lahpet thoke လက်ဖက်သုပ် · Snack · Mandalay, Myanmar

  Lahpet is fermented tea leaves, a food that Myanmar eats as well as drinks.

• Kokis කොකිස් · Snack · All Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

  Kokis is a crisp, deep-fried Sri Lankan snack made by dipping a decorative mould, often shaped like a flower and called a kokis achchuwa, into a thick batter of rice flour, coconut milk and beaten egg, then into boiling coconut oil; halfway through, the kokis is shaken off the mould to finish frying.