If you like more chewy abacus seeds, you will have to add more tapioca flour. The outcome is strong yam fragrance, soft abacus seeds and that definitely is more suitable for kids since it is easier to chew and digest. The dough is very easy to handle and I can shape it rather fast about 1/2 hour for 500 grams of yam. ![]() I am very pleased with the recipe that I used for the abacus seeds. The dish is stir-fried, seasoned with light soy sauce, salt, sugar and sometimes rice wine or vinegar.” (Source: ) The dish may be cooked with minced chicken or pork, dried shrimps, mushrooms and various other vegetables. “Made of dough formed of tapioca and yam, cut into abacus -bead shapes, which when cooked, are soft on the outside and chewy on the inside. There is hardly any difference between addition and subtraction with a modern abacus or a traditional one, if the reader already knows how to perform these two operations fluently with a modern abacus, he will also do well with a traditional one. Some used a chopstick to make the cavity in the yam ball but I have decided to use a finger to make the cavity and that saves lot of time… For shaping, I will leave it to readers to decide whether you like the round ball with small cavity or a rather flat shallow cavity like what you saw in this illustration.Īs per Wikipedia under its article “Hakka Cuisine”, it was written that abacus beads are: : ![]() Today, the abacus seeds that I prepared are rather flat for the sake of my children and I do not like the type that are too round since it can be rather chewy and more difficulty to cook. However, the exact design of this suanpan is not known. It was called abacus seeds because it looked like the seeds in an abacus. The suanpan ( simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: sunpn ), also spelled suan pan or souanpan 1 2) is an abacus of Chinese origin first described in a 190 CE book of the Eastern Han Dynasty, namely Supplementary Notes on the Art of Figures written by Xu Yue. ![]() I have decided to prepare this for dinner tonight. Most people are familiar with the abacus, the ancient Chinese counting instrument consisting of a wire-strung frame on which beads are threaded. It is a savoury dish that can be served as a main meal or as a snack. As no extant ancient document seems to explain it, this mystery will probably last forever and we are limited to conjectures to try to understand its origin. Obviously, this is an auspicious dish for the Tai pu (大浦) Hakka clan usually served during happy occasions such as weddings and Chinese New Year reunion dinner.Ībacus seeds are made from yam paste and some type of starches – can be tapioca or wheat starch. It is a mystery why traditional Chinese and Japanese abacuses had five beads in their lower deck as only four are required from the point of view of decimal numbers representation. I am not a Hakka but I do have my fair share of abacus seeds as my wife is a Hakka and two of my sister in laws are Hakka.
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