How to say “Turnip cake” in Cantonese
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lo4 baak6 gou1 · Turnip cake
A savoury cake of grated white radish and rice flour, often with dried shrimp and sausage, pan-fried in slices. Eaten at dim sum and at New Year.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.