Roasted sweet potato
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| Alternative names | Gun-goguma, kǎo-báishǔ, haau-faansyu, yaki-imo |
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| Place of origin | East Asia (China, Japan, Korea); Southeast Asia (Vietnam) |
| Main ingredients | Sweet potatoes |
| Similar dishes | Roasted chestnut |
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| Chinese name (northern China) | |||||||||
| Chinese | 烤白薯 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | "roasted sweet potato" | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 烤地瓜 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | "roasted sweet potato" | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 煨番薯 | ||||||||
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| Vietnamese | khoai lang nướng | ||||||||
| Japanese name | |||||||||
| Kanji | 焼き芋 | ||||||||
| Kana | やきいも | ||||||||
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Roasted sweet potato is a popular winter street food in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.[1]
Regions
[edit]China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
[edit]In China, yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes are roasted in a large iron drum and sold as street food during winter.[2] They are called kǎo-báishǔ (烤白薯; "roasted sweet potato") in northern China, wui faan syu (煨番薯) in Cantonese-speaking regions, and kǎo-dìguā (烤地瓜) in Taiwan and Northeast China, as the name of sweet potatoes themselves varies across the sinophone world.
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Roasted sweet potato from China -
Roasted sweet potato hawker in Hong Kong
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Korea
[edit]Sweet potatoes roasted in drum cans, called gun-goguma (군고구마), are popular in both North and South Korea.[3][4] The food is sold from late autumn to winter by vendors wearing ushanka, which is sometimes referred to as "roasted sweet potato vendor hat" or "roasted chestnut vendor hat". Although any type of goguma (sweet potato) can be roasted, softer, moist varieties such as hobak-goguma (pumpkin sweet potato) are preferred over firmer, floury varieties such as bam-goguma ("chestnut sweet potato") for roasting.[5]
In South Korea, roasted sweet potatoes are dried to make gun-goguma-mallaengi (군고구마 말랭이) and frozen to make ice-gun-goguma (아이스 군고구마).[6] Although gun-goguma has traditionally been a winter food, gun-goguma ice cream and gun-goguma smoothies are nowadays enjoyed in summer.[7]
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Gun-goguma -
Typical gun-goguma drum can in Korea -
Roasting goguma in a drum can -
Gun-goguma-mallaengi (half-dried roasted sweet potatoes) as a snack
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Japan
[edit]In Japan, a similar street food is called ishi yaki-imo (石焼き芋; "roasted sweet potato in heat stones") and sold from trucks during the winter.[8]
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yaki-imo vendor in Nara, Japan -
Stone-baked potato wrapped in newspaper is a common style in Japan.
Northern Vietnam
[edit]Roasted sweet potato (khoai lang nướng) is a popular winter street food in Hanoi and Northern Vietnam.[9]
Emoji
[edit]In 2010, an emoji was approved for Unicode 6.0 U+1F360 🍠 ROASTED SWEET POTATO for "roasted sweet potato".[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Maiti, R.; Rodríguez, H.G.; Sarkar, N.C. (2017). World vegetable and tuber crops. 1st. American Academic Press. p. 504. ISBN 978-1-63181-868-4. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ Wilson, Audrey (15 November 2016). "Let's Talk Food: Is there a difference between sweet potatoes and yams?". Hawaii Tribune-Herald. Archived from the original on 21 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Carruth, David (28 November 2016). "10 Korean Winter Street Foods to Bear the Cold For". 10 Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Guttenfelder, David (26 July 2011). "North Korea food shortage worst in years, despite farms". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Shin, Mi-Young & Lee, Won-Young (2011). "Physical Properties and Preference of a Steamed Sweet Potato Slab after Mild Hot Air Drying". Korean Journal of Food and Cookery Science (in Korean). 27 (2): 73–81. doi:10.9724/kfcs.2011.27.2.073.
- ^ 최현주 (1 February 2017). "작년엔 바나나 열풍, 올해는 고구마 바람" [Banana fever last year, sweet potato this year]. JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "겨울 별미 군고구마? 여름 간식 급부상" [Winter delicacy roasted sweet potato? Summer snacks]. The Korean Farmers and Fishermen's Newspaper (in Korean). No. 2736. Seoul. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ Lyon, Peter (22 December 2016). "These Japanese Hot Potato Trucks Are Delicious But Could Be Deadly". Forbes. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ "Khoai nướng Hà Nội ăm ắp kỷ niệm ngọt ngào" [Sweet memories with roasted sweet potatoes in hanoi]. Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). 29 August 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "roasted sweet potato". emojiguide.com. November 2019.
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