grass jelly

grass jelly

English

grass jelly

Noun

grass jelly (uncountable)

1. A jellylike dessert found in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, made by boiling grass or leaves of the mint family with potassium carbonate, and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency.

Translations

jellylike dessert

Chinese: Cantonese: 涼粉, 凉粉 (loeng4 fan2) Mandarin: 涼粉 (zh), 凉粉 (zh) (liángfěn(r)), (Taiwan) 燒仙草, 烧仙草 (shāoxiāncǎo)

Finnish: ruohohyytelö Spanish: jalea de hierba f