Chinese turnip cake is a popular Chinese dim sum dish.



Turnip Cake or Lo Bak Guo is a very traditional savoury dish served in Cantonese Yum Cha or dim sum eateries.

What is Turnip Cake made of?

Turnip cake is made of shredded daikon or radish, cooked with mince chicken, dried prawns and rice flour batter.
Radish cake is the lesser known name to this delightful savoury cake.
In some places, turnip cake is known as carrot cake.  

How to Cook Turnip Cake?

It is kind of lengthy process as it involved cooking the batter, steam and then pan fry. 
Seems like you have to jump hoops and hurdles just to enjoy this famous savoury bites.
But do not be despair, it is WORTH it!!!

I have listed down the ingredients and the methodology in the Recipe Card below.
But let me give you a quick run through using these photos below

 At least it will be less daunting for you to try :D
1) Clean, grate and cook radish or daikon






2) Saute chopped garlic, minced dried shrimps and mince chicken


3) Add cooked radish

4) Add batter and cooked until thicken (5 minutes approximate)

5) Prepare heatproof dish for steaming



6) Once cooled, cut into thick square and pan fry



And it is all done!!

How do you steam Turnip cake?

I used a steamer as shown in the photo above and in the video below. 
You can find a steamer easily in the market, may not necessary look like the one I have. You may use the bamboo steamer that sits well in any of your pots.

What do you serve Turnip Cake with?

Turnip cake is best serve with sweet chilli sauce
And its best serve when it is just pan-fried!!!

What to do with leftover Turnip cake?

One of the main ingredients in making turnip cake is rice flour, so if you reside in tropical country or in summer, I strongly suggest to store these gorgeous golden square of turnip cake in an airtight container and keep them in the refrigerator.

How Do I reheat Turnip Cake?

The best way to reheat the turnip cake is to pan-fry them again on low heat.
But do be careful, as you may ended up with very charred turnip cake.

My prefer method to re-heat is always my trustworthy microwave oven. Heat up for at least 20 second.
Again this re-heat method is very much depending on your microwave. 
Do check with manufacturer manual book for your microwave

Other Dim Sum dish that you may like to try at home.

1. Red Bean Steam Buns
2. Savoury Yam cake
3. Phoenix Claws
4. Golden Fried Wontons
5. Baked Chicken Buns (Siew Bao)
6. Chives Parcels

Video

The steps seems endless? Not to worry, I have a full video showing steps by steps to make this mouth watering turnip Cake.

Original post published on 17th May 2011

This is what happened when 2 cultures meet... we have vast selection of food to cook... thus enjoy.

Sometimes we just dont know where to start or which to choose from... as there are so many 'childhood' favourites that we want our kids to appreciate with some glimmer of hope that one day... they will reminisce their younger days through their tastebuds too...
H grew up with Chinese food... while I grew up with Malay and Indian food. Between the 2 of us... we 'practically' have 'Malaysia Gastronomic' in our kitchen...
Note : I am dropping the 'Mr and Miss' from now on... to be less formal and less alphabets for me to type...

And Radish Cake~ one of Chinese delicacies... that would have come 'unnoticed' to me... until H came along...

D formerly known as Mr H Jr and E were introduced to Radish Cake on our trip to Kuala Lumpur in January this year... they loved it... especially D, who adores deep fried food... between them... they almost finished the Radish Cake in record time...

Two hungry teens! Looking at D and E ate so heartily... and 2 packets weren't sufficient for both...I made a mental note to get H to cook Radish Cake when we returned home...
Nearly 4 months after our trip... the kids were delighted when we presented them... with Radish Cakes...
Believe me ... when I say that these little delights are addictive, and we finished it all, in record time too...