Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - Please advise on the scientific names of a few pastries.

Please advise on the scientific names of a few pastries.

1. Sweet Kuey Teow (Sweet Rice Cake):

Sweet rice cake is a must-have because "eating sweet is good for the New Year". Sweet kuey teow is made of glutinous rice, and eating the rice cake has the meaning of "a high year" and "a high step".

2. Vegetable Cake (Turnip Cake)

The Turnip Cake is Vegetable Cake because "Vegetable Cake is good luck" and "Vegetable Cake" is the most abundant vegetable in the season, which is the most economical. Choi tau kuey teow is steamed with rehmannia rice and radish.

3. Fat Kuey Teow:

Because it is shaped like a flower, and Fat Kuey Teow has the meaning of "Fat Choy", so there is the saying "Fat Kuey Teow is Fat

Fortune", Fat Kuey Teow used to add red vermilion paste (red coloring) in order to match the red coloring of the red spring scrolls of the Lunar New Year to make it auspicious, but nowadays, most of the people don't use the coloring because they don't want to eat too much of the coloring, but nowadays, most of them don't use coloring any more!

4. Taro Kuey Teow (taro cake), Pao Chai Kuey Teow (bean bun cake):

Taro Kuey Teow is made of taro and glutinous rice made of pastries with the meaning of "Protecting (taro) Protecting (taro) Sun"; and Pao Chai Kuey Teow has the "salty Pao Gold, sweet Pao Silver" meaning of good luck, which is also a product of glutinous rice.