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Who took the carrot from the carrot cake?

It's a carrot cake but without the carrots and the cake batter. ๐Ÿ‡"Eh...What's up, doc?", the carrot-luvin' bunnies would likely ask. In these times of fake news and filtered data, let me just confirm that this is legit. ๐Ÿ‘Œ Here in Singapore, the delicious dish called "Carrot Cake"  has absolutely no resemblance to the Western carrot cake. ๐Ÿ˜ A perfect example of how fascinating food gets from different parts of the world. Exhibit: Carrot Cake of SouthEast Asia   versus  Carrot Cake of the West   source: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/carrot-cake-recipe-recipe-2011777 They are literally world's apart! The unique misnomer came about because of: a loose English-from-Hokkien translation of "radish pastry" of a dish called "chai tow (carrot or radish) kway (cake) Radish, one of its main ingredients, can also refer to a carrot, literally "red radish" in Southeast Asian countries.  -Wikipedia   I would describe it as an Asian ...