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Default Konnyaku - "yam cake"

Omelet wrote:

>>>> Yam cake is made from taro and you eat it for breakfast. I would drain
>>>> it, then brown it just until it was crispy on the outside.
>>>>
>>>> Becca
>>> Becca, it's not the same thing.
>>>
>>> You fry this stuff, you will end up with crispy, tasteless rubber.

>> We have a couple of bags of Shirartaki noodles in the fridge. She is
>> talking about Shirakiku Yam Cakes, which is different.
>>
>> Becca

>
> Okay, sorry.
>
> It sounded like Glucomanan.


If we had pictures of it, we would both be more certain of what we are
talking about. lol That is the only Yam Cake I am aware of.

You know, I appreciate her spirit. It is interesting to buy things in
the Asian market, not knowing what it is.

Becca