Roasted sweet potato
{{Short description|Popular street food in East Asia}}
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| name = Roasted sweet potato
| image = Gungoguma (roasted sweet potatoes) 2.jpg
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| alternate_name = Gun-goguma, kǎo-báishǔ, haau-faansyu, yaki-imo
| country = East Asia (China, Japan, Korea); Southeast Asia (Vietnam)
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| main_ingredient = Sweet potatoes
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| similar_dish = Roasted chestnut
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{{Infobox Chinese
| title = Regional names
| name1 = Chinese name (northern China)
| c = 烤白薯
| l = "roasted sweet potato"
| p = kǎo-báishǔ
| w = k'ao3 pai2shu3
| altname2 = Chinese name (Taiwan)
| c2 = 烤地瓜
| l2 = "roasted sweet potato"
| p2 = kǎo-dìguā
| w2 = k'ao3 ti4kwa1
| altname3 = Cantonese name
| c3 = 煨番薯
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| y3 = haau-faan-syu
| rr = gun-goguma
| mr = kun-koguma
| lk = "roasted sweet potato"
| kanji = 焼き芋
| kana = やきいも
| revhep = yaki-imo
| vie = khoai lang nướng
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Roasted sweet potato is a popular winter street food in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.{{cite book | last1=Maiti | first1=R. | last2=Rodríguez | first2=H.G. | last3=Sarkar | first3=N.C. | title=World vegetable and tuber crops | publisher=American Academic Press | series=1st | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-63181-868-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LkyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA504 | access-date=4 April 2022 | page=504}}
Regions
=China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan=
In China, yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes are roasted in a large iron drum and sold as street food during winter.{{Cite news |url=http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/features/let-s-talk-food-there-difference-between-sweet-potatoes-and-yams |title=Let's Talk Food: Is there a difference between sweet potatoes and yams? |last=Wilson |first=Audrey |date=15 November 2016 |newspaper=Hawaii Tribune-Herald |access-date=9 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221105604/https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/features/let-s-talk-food-there-difference-between-sweet-potatoes-and-yams |archive-date=21 February 2017 |url-status=dead}} They are called kǎo-báishǔ ({{lang|zh-cn|烤白薯}}; "roasted sweet potato") in northern China, wui faan syu ({{lang|zh|煨番薯}}) in Cantonese-speaking regions, and kǎo-dìguā ({{lang|zh-tw|烤地瓜}}) in Taiwan and Northeast China, as the name of sweet potatoes themselves varies across the sinophone world.
Roasted sweet potato.jpg|Roasted sweet potato from China
Roasted sweet potatoes and chestnuts hawkers (Hong Kong).jpg|Roasted sweet potato hawker in Hong Kong
=Korea=
Sweet potatoes roasted in drum cans, called gun-goguma ({{lang|ko|군고구마}}), are popular in both North and South Korea.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.10mag.com/10-korean-winter-street-foods-to-bear-the-cold-for/ |title=10 Korean Winter Street Foods to Bear the Cold For |last=Carruth |first=David |date=28 November 2016 |magazine=10 Magazine |access-date=9 February 2017}}{{Cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-07-25-north-korea-food-shortage_n.htm |title=North Korea food shortage worst in years, despite farms |newspaper=USA Today |date=26 July 2011 |first=David |last=Guttenfelder |agency=Associated Press |access-date=9 February 2017 }} The food is sold from late autumn to winter by vendors wearing ushanka, which is sometimes referred to as "roasted sweet potato vendor hat" or "roasted chestnut vendor hat". Although any type of goguma (sweet potato) can be roasted, softer, moist varieties such as hobak-goguma (pumpkin sweet potato) are preferred over firmer, floury varieties such as bam-goguma ("chestnut sweet potato") for roasting.{{Cite journal |last1=Shin |first1=Mi-Young |last2=Lee |first2=Won-Young |title=Physical Properties and Preference of a Steamed Sweet Potato Slab after Mild Hot Air Drying |url=http://koreascience.or.kr/journal/view.jsp?kj=HJRGB8&py=2011&vnc=v27n2&sp=73 |journal=Korean Journal of Food and Cookery Science |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=73–81 |doi=10.9724/kfcs.2011.27.2.073 |year=2011 |doi-access=free |language=ko |name-list-style=amp}}
In South Korea, roasted sweet potatoes are dried to make gun-goguma-mallaengi ({{lang|ko|군고구마 말랭이}}) and frozen to make ice-gun-goguma ({{lang|ko|아이스 군고구마}}).{{Cite news |url=http://news.joins.com/article/21194458 |title=작년엔 바나나 열풍, 올해는 고구마 바람 |author=최현주 |date=1 February 2017 |newspaper=JoongAng Ilbo |access-date=12 February 2017 |lang=ko |trans-title=Banana fever last year, sweet potato this year }}
Although gun-goguma has traditionally been a winter food, gun-goguma ice cream and gun-goguma smoothies are nowadays enjoyed in summer.{{Cite news |url=http://www.agrinet.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=138533 |title=겨울 별미 군고구마? 여름 간식 급부상 |date=14 July 2015 |newspaper=The Korean Farmers and Fishermen's Newspaper |access-date=12 February 2017 |lang=ko |trans-title=Winter delicacy roasted sweet potato? Summer snacks |issue=2736 |location=Seoul }}
Gungoguma (roasted sweet potatoes).jpg|Gun-goguma
Gungoguma drum can (sweet potato roaster).jpg|Typical gun-goguma drum can in Korea
Gungoguma drum can (sweet potato roaster) 2.jpg|Roasting goguma in a drum can
Gungoguma mallaengi.jpg|Gun-goguma-mallaengi (half-dried roasted sweet potatoes) as a snack
=Japan=
In Japan, a similar street food is called ishi yaki-imo ({{lang|ja|石焼き芋}}; "roasted sweet potato in heat stones") and sold from trucks during the winter.{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2016/12/22/these-japanese-food-trucks-are-delicious-but-could-be-deadly/ |title=These Japanese Hot Potato Trucks Are Delicious But Could Be Deadly |last=Lyon |first=Peter |date=22 December 2016 |newspaper=Forbes |access-date=9 February 2017}}
Ishi yakiimo vendor by MShades in Nara.jpg|yaki-imo vendor in Nara, Japan
Ishi_yaki_imo_by_Kanko.jpg|Stone-baked potato wrapped in newspaper is a common style in Japan.
=Northern Vietnam=
Roasted sweet potato ({{lang|vi|khoai lang nướng}}) is a popular winter street food in Hanoi and Northern Vietnam.{{Cite news |url=https://thanhnien.vn/khoai-nuong-ha-noi-am-ap-ky-niem-ngot-ngao-post1105847.html |title=Khoai nướng Hà Nội ăm ắp kỷ niệm ngọt ngào |date=29 August 2021 |newspaper=Thanh Niên |access-date=24 November 2022 |lang=vi |trans-title=Sweet memories with roasted sweet potatoes in hanoi }}
Emoji
In 2010, an emoji was approved for Unicode 6.0 {{unichar|1F360|Roasted Sweet Potato}} for "roasted sweet potato".{{cite web|url=https://emojiguide.com/food-drink/roasted-sweet-potato/|title=roasted sweet potato|date=November 2019 |publisher=emojiguide.com}}
See also
References
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