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Pau Pau's Lucky 8 Layer Tapioca Cake

Pau Pau's Lucky 8 Layer Tapioca Cake

anyone else have an old handwritten recipe in Chinese they need help with?

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Feb 07, 2024
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Last Christmas I asked my Pau Pau (maternal grandma) for her 8 Layer Tapioca Cake recipe so I could make it for Lunar New Year. She makes this chewy brown sugar sweetened tapioca cake (that honestly takes like boba) every single LNY. It’s a Toisan-style dessert and it’s steamed in layers, the more layers the more good luck in the new year. As a kid it w…

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