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糖油粑粑

tángyóu bābā
noun Not spicy

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 sugar-oil rice cakes

About the dish

湘菜 Hunan · 小吃 Snack

Flat pieces of glutinous rice dough fried in oil and sugar until coated in a glossy, sticky caramel. Chewy, sweet and best eaten hot. A Changsha street snack.

Examples

HSK 5
Zài Chángshā de jiē biān, wǒ mǎi le liǎng ge gāng chūguō de tángyóu bābā.
On a street in Changsha I bought two sugar-oil rice cakes fresh out of the pan.
HSK 7-9
Tángyóu bābā wàimian guǒ zhe yì céng táng, yǎo yì kǒu niánnián de.
Sugar-oil rice cakes are coated in a layer of sugar and are sticky when you bite into them.

Tips

usage
粑粑 is a word from Hunan and the southwest for a flat cake, often of glutinous rice. In children's talk in many other places the same word means poo.

Stroke Order

糖 táng
油 yóu
粑 bā