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Tapioca starch
木薯粉
Starch milled from cassava root; cooked, it turns clear, elastic and chewy, unlike the floury set of cornflour. It is one of the three starches in Hong Kong grass jelly (cornflour, rice flour, tapioca), the spoonful that gives egg-waffle batter its chew, and some use it in place of wheat starch in 缽仔糕 for a bouncier cake. Tapioca starch at Asian grocers (Erawan's blue bag, for example) and the tapioca flour in the supermarket health aisle are the same product.
Preparation
Slake in cold water before it goes in; too much makes things rubbery.
Origin
泰國. At Asian grocers, the Erawan blue bag for example; tapioca flour in the Coles and Woolworths health aisle.
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
Australian name · tapioca starch / tapioca flour (Erawan blue bag)
Where · Asian grocers; Coles and Woolworths health aisle
Where · Asian grocers; Coles and Woolworths health aisle
