mee chiang kueh
English
Alternative forms
- mee jiang kueh
- mee jiang kuih
Etymology
From Hokkien 麵煎粿 (mī chian kóe, literally “fried noodle snack”), from 麵/面 (mī, “noodle”) + 煎 (chian, “pan fried”) + 粿 (kóe, “bite size snack”).
Pronunciation
- (Singapore) IPA(key): /miː dʒiːaŋ kuːeɪ/
Noun
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:
- 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.
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