Singaporeans..please answer me why is it called "Carrot cake"?

Question

although it includes no trace of carrot..? Then I ate a famous Rojak but all ingredients are totally not matching each other..how come

Answer 1

Fried Carrot Cake or "Chai Tow Kway" is a common dish in Singapore and it is one cuisine where Singaporeans can taste it throughout the day. Singaporean would have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Main ingredients is white radish(more commonly known as White Carrot by Singaporean Chinese). The white radish is grated and then mixed with rice flour. Together with water, the mixture is stirred while cooking. Then the thick mixture is poured in a round pan and steamed to form the carrot cake.

For those who wants to make carrot cake at home, you can even add, small shrimps, diced lap cheong or diced mushroom, to give it added texture and taste.

The carrot cake is cut into pieces and stir fried with eggs, diced garlic, spring onion, preserved radish and occasionally dried shrimp.And if you ordered a larger portion (higher price), some hawkers will serve it with prawns too.

You can ordered if fried with or without sweet black sauce. To order one fried with sweet black sauce, you have to tell the hawker you want it 'black' (pronouced as 'hei'in Chinese) and if you want it without the sweet black sauce tell the hawker you want it 'white' (pronouced as 'bye' in Chinese).

To find out the skill of a hawker selling Fried Carrot Cake, you look at whether the eggs, that is stir fried with carrot cake, is burnt or not. Well if it is burnt (or worse, badly burnt) or the 'yellow' of the egg is not bright, forget about it. A skilful hawker will not burn the egg. The skilful hawker would also be able to make you drool with just the aroma alone. The best Fried Carrot Cake, nicely fried with eggs, is a visual, gustatory and olfactory treat to anyone. And if you can take spicy food, ask the hawker to put in a small amount of chili, the chili would make you shout the Singaporean slang "Shiok".

But one must note that each servings has more than one egg in it so not advisable for people who are watching their cholestrol level.

A definite must try for any visitors to Singapore.

Answer 2

I'm not from Singapore, but any Carrot cake I have ever had has had shredded carrot in it. Maybe the carrots were grated so small that you couldn't see them.

Answer 3

the food mainly made from white raddish....like big white carrot to old folks

Answer 4

yeah, usually carrot cake cosists of shredded carrot, raisens and nuts...sssooo good!