How to pronounce Square cookie

Square cookie is written 方塊酥 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /faŋ˥ kʰwaɪ˥˩ su˥/. In plain English letters that is fahng-kwai-SOO, 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 Square cookie?

Square cookie is a dessert of Taiwan. Where it comes from: Chiayi. People usually eat it at teatime and as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Square cookie comes from

Square cookie is one of 30 signature dishes of Taiwan on this map.

• Chiayi turkey rice 火雞肉飯 · Rice dish · Chiayi

  Chiayi turkey rice is a bowl of white rice topped with shredded turkey, drizzled with a sauce of turkey drippings, soy sauce and shallot-fried lard, often with a slice of pickled yellow radish.

• Beef noodle soup 牛肉麵 · Noodles & pasta · Taipei

  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 · Rice dish · Taipei

  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 · Drink · Taichung

  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 · Noodles & pasta · Tainan

  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 · Street food · Tainan

  Coffin bread starts as a thick slab of soft white bread.

Food of Taiwan

Dishes like Square cookie in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Square cookie:

• Fiadone · Dessert · Molise and Abruzzo, Italy

  Fiadone is a pastry from Molise and Abruzzo, eaten at Easter.

• Tarte al d'jote · Dessert · Walloon Brabant, Belgium

  Tarte al d'jote is the culinary speciality of Nivelles, in Walloon Brabant: a savoury tart filled with Swiss chard, d'jote in the local Walloon dialect, mixed with a lean farm cream cheese called boulette of Nivelles and butter.

• Sata andagi サーターアンダーギー · Dessert · Okinawa, Japan

  Sata andagi are deep-fried sweet buns from Okinawa, much like doughnuts.

• Piaya · Dessert · Negros Occidental, Philippines

  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.