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How to pronounce Ox-tongue cake
Ox-tongue cake is written 牛舌餅 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /njoʊ˧˥ ʂɤ˧˥ piŋ˨˩˦/. In plain English letters that is nyoh-shuh-BING, 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 Ox-tongue cake?
Ox-tongue cake is a dessert of Taiwan. Where it comes from: Yilan. People usually eat it at teatime and as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.
Where Ox-tongue cake comes from
Ox-tongue cake is one of 30 signature dishes of Taiwan on this map.
- Gao zha 糕渣
Gao zha is one of the best known snacks of Yilan in north-east Taiwan: deep-fried cubes that are crisp outside and scalding liquid inside.
- Beef noodle soup 牛肉麵
Beef noodle soup, niúròumiàn, is Taiwan's signature noodle dish: thick wheat noodles in a deep broth of slowly braised beef, often red-braised with soy sauce, chilli bean paste and spices, topped with greens and pickled mustard.
- Lu rou fan 滷肉飯
Lu rou fan, braised pork rice, is finely chopped or minced pork belly simmered in soy sauce, rice wine, sugar and spices such as five-spice, often with fried shallots, until the fat and skin turn soft, then spooned over a bowl of white rice.
- Bubble tea 珍珠奶茶
Bubble tea, zhēnzhū nǎichá, is sweet milk tea shaken with ice and chewy balls of tapioca drunk through a wide straw.
- Danzai noodles 擔仔麵
Danzai noodles, tàⁿ-á-mī in Taiwanese, are a small bowl of noodles in shrimp-flavoured broth, topped with bean sprouts, coriander, garlic, a shrimp and a spoon of minced pork sauce.
- Coffin bread 棺材板
Coffin bread starts as a thick slab of soft white bread.
Dishes like Ox-tongue cake in other countries
Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Ox-tongue cake:
- Sata andagi サーターアンダーギー
Sata andagi are deep-fried sweet buns from Okinawa, much like doughnuts.
- Hwangnam bread 황남빵
Hwangnam bread, also called Gyeongju bread, is a small round pastry filled with red bean paste, the filling making up nearly seventy per cent of the cake.
- Wenxi zhubing 闻喜煮饼
Wenxi zhubing are round sweets from Wenxi County in southern Shanxi and are counted among the eight famous pastries of the province.
- Piaya
Piaya is an unleavened flatbread filled with muscovado sugar, found across the Philippines but especially common in Negros Occidental, where it is a popular delicacy.