Badé Road 274 Try pineapple cake Pineapple cake, or fengli su, is a small cube of cake filled with candied pineapple and a mix of winter melon.
A combo comes with tender coins of potato and lotus root; you might add starchy-sweet taro, and spongy cubes of fish cake, too.
The duck hash, combining cubes of rice cake with shredded duck confit and a poached egg, has one foot in the Far East and the other in fatty, gut-busting Momofuku Manhattan.
Nothing fussy: just a cube of almond cake in a teaspoon on a micro-saucer, awash in chocolate sauce.
If I had sat in a back row, the chewy, lightly spicy cubes of starchy turnip cake tossed with dried shrimp, Chinese sausage and scallions may have passed me by.
In America, meanwhile, the good folk of Cleveland refer to cubes of chocolate-and coconut-coated cake as coconut bars.
Lily-bulb soup, creamless but creamy, unctuous and slightly sweet, is the first eyebrow-raiser, punctuated by a tiny cube-shaped cake of cod and mushroom.
"He is not a success yet," one of his handlers admitted, distributing cubes of the cafe's trademark honey cake.
In a different compartment were the tel'noe, a kind of fish cake made with cubes of salmon and perch, and mixed with raw egg and chopped onions.
The food, too, is very referential – from calling weeny cubes of fudgy, fat-studded black pudding "blood cake", to the appearance of gull's eggs.
My family and I dined on rice and tofu, bamboo shoots, seaweed, pickles, small cubes of braised pork belly and a little cake at the local "longevity cafe" beneath flowering dragon fruit plants.
