grass jelly

English

grass jelly

Noun

grass jelly (uncountable)

A jellylike dessert found in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, made by boiling grass or leaves of the mint family with potassium carbonate, and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency.

Translations

jellylike dessert

Chinese:
Cantonese: 涼粉, 凉粉 (loeng⁴ fan²)

Mandarin: 涼粉 (zh), 凉粉 (zh) (liángfěn(r)), (Taiwan) 燒仙草, 烧仙草 (shāoxiāncǎo)

Finnish: ruohohyytelö
Spanish: jalea de hierba f

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