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cake
ice cream bar
too bad
cakes
nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
fa gao, a type of steamed sponge cake, usu. sweetened, commonly consumed at Chinese New Year
traditional Xinjiang sweet walnut cake
ice-cream
steamed rice cake made from glutinous rice flour, soft and fluffy in texture
fried glutinous rice dough cake
cakes
buckwheat pudding
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It's too bad that you couldn't come.
Source: Tatoeba #894328 · CC BY 2.0 FRFrom childhood I dreamed of being a pastry cook.
Source: Tatoeba #348911 · CC BY 2.0 FRYou'd better not have eaten the cake.
Source: Tatoeba #903476 · CC BY 2.0 FRThe best cakes that I have ever eaten are those that my mother baked.
Source: Tatoeba #6744819 · CC BY 2.0 FRThis is the best cake that I have ever eaten.
Source: Tatoeba #1233203 · CC BY 2.0 FRDefinitions and traditional forms are compiled from Make Me a Hanzi, HSK curriculum data, and CC-CEDICT. Sourced example sentences link to Tatoeba; editorial examples are labeled separately. Review data sources and licenses.