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Crab jujube

A Chaozhou dish of small, deep-fried crab cakes shaped like jujube fruit, made with crab meat, pork fat, water chestnuts, eggs, vegetables, and herbs. The mixture is wrapped in tofu skin, rolled, and cut into bite-sized pieces; in Thailand, it is popular among Thai Chinese people as hoicho.

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Its main ingredients are crab meat, pork fat, chopped water chestnuts, eggs, vegetables, and herbs, which are wrapped into a sheet of fresh tofu skin, forming long rolls, cut into bite-sized pieces, and deep-fried. Crab jujube is a popular dish among Thai Chinese people in Thailand where it is known as hoicho.

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