mee chiang kueh
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Teochew 麵煎粿/面煎粿 (min7 ziang1 guê2), from 麵/面 (min7, “noodle”) + 煎 (ziang1, “pan fried”) + 粿 (guê2, “rice cake, pastry-like snack”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mee chiang kueh
- (Singapore, Malaysia) A thick, sweet pancake, usually with a filling of peanut, coconut or red bean.
- 2003 10 September, R. W. Apple Jr., “ASIAN JOURNEY; Snacker's Paradise: Devouring Singapore's Endless Supper”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Before we left Tiong Bahru, whose stall holders are all ethnic Chinese, we tasted further evidence of the Asian genius for making a lot from a little, in the form of mee chiang kueh, a thick pancake filled with coconut and peanuts crushed before our eyes in an ancient heroically clanking and banging contraption.