Roasted sweet potato is a popular winter street food in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.[1]
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| Alternative names | Gun-goguma, kǎo-báishǔ, haau-faansyu, yaki-imo |
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| Place of origin | East Asia (China, Japan, Korea); Southeast Asia (Vietnam) |
| Main ingredients | Sweet potatoes |
| Similar dishes | Roasted chestnut |
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| Chinese | 烤白薯 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 烤地瓜 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 煨番薯 | ||||||||
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| Vietnamese | khoai lang nướng | ||||||||
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| Hangul | 군고구마 | ||||||||
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| Kanji | 焼き芋 | ||||||||
| Kana | やきいも | ||||||||
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Regions
editChina, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
editIn China, yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes are roasted in a large iron drum and sold as street food during winter.[2] They are called kǎo-báishǔ (烤白薯; "roasted sweet potato") in northern China, wui faan syu (煨番薯) in Cantonese-speaking regions, and kǎo-dìguā (烤地瓜) in Taiwan and Northeast China, as the name of sweet potatoes themselves varies across the sinophone world.
In 2021, Hong Kong chef Lucas Sin went viral for posting about a traditional Chinese method of roasting sweet potatoes, where the potato is first frozen before being roasted until caramelized sugars bleed through the skin.[3]
Roasted sweet potato from China
Roasted sweet potato hawker in Hong Kong
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Korea
editSweet potatoes roasted in drum cans, called gun-goguma (군고구마), are popular in both North and South Korea.[4][5] The food is sold from late autumn to winter by vendors wearing ushanka, which is sometimes referred to as "roasted sweet potato vendor hat" or "roasted chestnut vendor hat". Although any type of goguma (sweet potato) can be roasted, softer, moist varieties such as hobak-goguma (pumpkin sweet potato) are preferred over firmer, floury varieties such as bam-goguma ("chestnut sweet potato") for roasting.[6]
In South Korea, roasted sweet potatoes are dried to make gun-goguma-mallaengi (군고구마 말랭이) and frozen to make ice-gun-goguma (아이스 군고구마).[7] Although gun-goguma has traditionally been a winter food, gun-goguma ice cream and gun-goguma smoothies are nowadays enjoyed in summer.[8]
Gun-goguma
Typical gun-goguma drum can in Korea
Roasting goguma in a drum can
Gun-goguma-mallaengi (half-dried roasted sweet potatoes) as a snack
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Japan
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Northern Vietnam
editRoasted sweet potato (khoai lang nướng) is a popular winter street food in Hanoi and Northern Vietnam.[10]
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editSee also
editReferences
edit- ↑ Maiti, R.; Rodríguez, H.G.; Sarkar, N.C. (2017). World vegetable and tuber crops. 1st. American Academic Press. p. 504. ISBN 978-1-63181-868-4. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ↑ Wilson, Audrey (15 November 2016). "Let's Talk Food: Is there a difference between sweet potatoes and yams?". Hawaii Tribune-Herald. Archived from the original on 21 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ↑ Sontag, Elazar (8 January 2021). "For a 'Proper Proper Proper' Baked Sweet Potato, Freeze It First". Eater. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ Carruth, David (28 November 2016). "10 Korean Winter Street Foods to Bear the Cold For". 10 Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ↑ Guttenfelder, David (26 July 2011). "North Korea food shortage worst in years, despite farms". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ↑ Shin, Mi-Young & Lee, Won-Young (2011). "Physical Properties and Preference of a Steamed Sweet Potato Slab after Mild Hot Air Drying". Korean Journal of Food and Cookery Science (in Korean). 27 (2): 73–81. doi:10.9724/kfcs.2011.27.2.073.
- ↑ 최현주 (1 February 2017). 작년엔 바나나 열풍, 올해는 고구마 바람 [Banana fever last year, sweet potato this year]. JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ 겨울 별미 군고구마? 여름 간식 급부상 [Winter delicacy roasted sweet potato? Summer snacks]. The Korean Farmers and Fishermen's Newspaper (in Korean). No. 2736. Seoul. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ Lyon, Peter (22 December 2016). "These Japanese Hot Potato Trucks Are Delicious But Could Be Deadly". Forbes. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ↑ "Khoai nướng Hà Nội ăm ắp kỷ niệm ngọt ngào" [Sweet memories with roasted sweet potatoes in hanoi]. Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). 29 August 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ↑ "roasted sweet potato". emojiguide.com. November 2019.
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