{"id":7959,"date":"2021-04-16T03:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2021-04-16T03:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T03:03:50","slug":"festive-food-turnip-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/7959","title":{"rendered":"Festive Food &#8212; Turnip Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Turnip cakes is a Chinese dim sum dish. As it\u2019s a\ntraditional Chinese dish made of shredded radish and plain rice flour, which is\nunlike how Western-style turnips cakes are made. Turnip cakes are often cut\ninto regular slices and sometimes pan-fried before serving. Although it is\nplain to look at, a good pan-fried turnip cake is a flavor explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My family members always gather around to make this iconic\nand delicious dish right before Chinese Lunar New Year. It is easy to make and\nthat\u2019s why even young toddlers can be involved, which makes it a truly family\nactivity. Family members across generations can enjoy making the food and the\nfestive atmosphere in this reunion.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turnip cakes are very important to my family. Some of my\nrelatives live outside of Hong Kong where Chinese Lunar New Year is not\ncelebrated. I remember that one of my younger cousins who is living in England\nfelt so excited to come back to Hong Kong just because he extremely loves our\nhomemade turnips cakes which outcompete all other turnip cakes sold in terms of\ntaste of the cakes itself and the taste of home. Turnip cakes make family\nmembers united.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating festivals offers us a chance to maintain the\nrelationships, and festive food serves as the bridge connecting us all. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Turnip cakes is a Chinese dim sum dish. As it\u2019s traditional Chinese dish made of shredded radish and plain rice flour, which iunlike how Western-style turnips cakes are made. Turnip cakes are often cuinto regular slices and sometimes pan-fried before serving. Although it iplain to look at, a goo.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/7959\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s4","schoolyear-81"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}