Roasted sweet potato
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Regional names |
Chinese name (China) |
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Chinese |
烤白薯 |
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Literal meaning |
"roasted sweet potato" |
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Chinsese name (Taiwan) |
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Chinese |
烤地瓜 |
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Literal meaning |
"roasted sweet potato" |
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Korean name |
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Hangul |
군고구마 |
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Literal meaning |
"roasted sweet potato" |
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Japanese name |
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Kanji |
焼き芋 |
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Kana |
やきいも |
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Roasted sweet potato is a popular winter street food in East Asia.
China
In China, yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes are roasted in a large iron drum and sold as street food during winter.[1] They are called kǎo-báishǔ (烤白薯; "roasted sweet potato") in mainland China and kǎo-dìguā (烤地瓜; "roasted sweet potato") in Taiwan, as the name of sweet potatoes themselves vary across the sinophone states and regions.
Korea
Sweet potatoes roasted in drum cans, called gun-goguma (군고구마; "roasted sweet potato"), are also popular in both North and South Korea.[2][3] The food is sold from late autumn to winter by the 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.[4]
In South Korea, roasted sweet potatoes are dried to make gun-goguma-mallaengi (군고구마 말랭이), and frozen to make ice-gun-goguma (아이스 군고구마).[5]
Although gun-goguma has traditionally been a winter food, gun-goguma ice cream and gun-goguma smoothie are nowadays enjoyed in summer.[6]
Japan
In Japan, similar street food is called yaki-imo (焼き芋; "roasted sweet potato") and sold from trucks during the winter.[7]
Gallery
roasted sweet potato from
China
typical
gun-goguma drum can in
Korea
roasting
goguma in the drum can
yaki-imo vendor in
Nara,
Japan
roasted sweet potatoes hawker in
Hong Kong
gun-goguma-mallaengi (half-dried roasted sweet potatoes) as a snack
ice-gun-goguma eaten as summer food
gun-goguma ice cream (outer look)
gun-goguma ice cream (inside)
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