Description
The latest Chinese dessert drawing massive lines of youth. Fluffy sponge cakes thickly slathered with special sweet mayonnaise, then completely buried and encrusted like a snowball in 'Rou Song' (sweet-savory, cotton-candy-like dried pork floss). The 'ultimate sweet-and-salty snack'.
Restaurants serving Rou Song Xiao Bei (Pork Floss Cake)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Rou Song(Pork floss)
- Sweet mayonnaise
- Eggs
- Cake flour
- Sugar
- Seaweed
- White sesame
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- (Cake) Fold a stiff meringue (egg whites/sugar) into a batter of egg yolks, cake flour, milk, and oil.
- Pipe onto a baking sheet into small round (shell-like) circles. Bake into fluffy, chiffon-like mini sponge cakes.
- (Sauce) Prepare Chinese bakery-style 'sweet mayonnaise (Sha La Jiang)'—often slightly translucent and sweetened with condensed milk.
- Smear this sweet mayo between two cakes and sandwich them together.
- Generously brush the ENTIRE outside surface of the sandwiched cakes with the same mayo.
- [Finish]: Drop the sticky cake into a massive bowl of 'Rou Song' (sweet-savory pork floss) mixed with seaweed and sesame. Press firmly by hand until the cake is 100% enveloped in the meat floss with zero gaps.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Intense umami of pork floss、Sweet mayonnaise depth
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Coat store-bought sponge cake with mayo and pork floss)
Pairing
Boba Milk Tea / Oolong Tea
Trivia
[Trivia] 'Rou Song' is pork dried to the absolute limit into a cotton-like texture. Japanese people recoil at 'Meat and Mayo on a Cake!?', but 99 out of 100 who try it become addicted to its 'demonic deliciousness'. The masterpiece of modern Chinese sweets.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Holding it makes your fingers sticky with mayo and meat floss, but ignore it and take a huge bite. The 'sweetness' of the cake, 'tartness' of the mayo, and 'salty-crunchiness' of the meat floss explode in your mouth, tasting so good it breaks your brain.
Allergen
Wheat, Eggs, Dairy, Pork