Fried Radish Cake (Lo Bak Gou)

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Got a radish sitting in my fridge for over a week now, and my hands been itching to use it up. I can't really make very nice radish soup, so this eventually lead to thoughts of making fried radish cake aka Lo Bak Gou. Just google around abit & found this not so difficult recipe.

reference recipe from wokoflife.com

Got no chinese sausage, so skip it. Wife don't like scallion or green onion skip it. Don't have cornstarch, use tapioca starch instead. And no more dried black mushroom, use oyster mushroom. Add carrot into recipe.

chop everything

General steps:

1. Chop things up.Everything you can chop.
2. Mix all. General purpose/ tapioca flour, salt sugar, white pepper as batter and set aside.
3. Add water to minced radish, then cook on frying pan for ~15 min to soften it up. Set aside.
4. Fry some minced onion, garlic for couple of minutes, add chopped shrimp, carrot and mushroom.
5. Mix the fried stuff & radish on a plate/container. Oh..do oil it before mixing. This will go for steaming under mid/high fire for ~50min, i did 60 min.
6. At this point it's cooked, but most people like their radish cake fried a la Hong Kong style. I do add a step to mix some flour & fry so that your frying pan don't get messed with sticky parts falling everywhere. Fry till golden brown, drain & serve with chilli sauce - i skip the sauce part of recipe above.

From left, tapioca flour, chopped shrimp, mushroom, carrot and the minced up radish.

Now it looks a bit like tuna mayonaise when mixing.

Ready for steaming. It will look quite watery even after that, just let it cool and dry down. My first attempt to fry them without any coating is messy.

Here is the end result. This time i messed up, everything is fine except the taste. Too salty, as i misread teaspoon to be tablespoon...damn n00b. Next time will stick to a pinch of salt.

Update: latest attempt below. It's pretty good, would probably change to recipe to add few spoon of white pepper to spice the taste up a bit.