These golf-ball-sized dumplings (40 Singapore cents each) are made from mashed sweet potato mixed with rice flour. Fried, they're crispy outside, a bit chewy inside. Less "pure" varieties are filled with vegetables, ground peanuts, or red bean paste. You can make a meal from a mixed bag, though before you bite, it's not always easy to know which is savory and which is sweet.
Ri Xing Xiang Ji
Maxwell Food Centre, stall 76, Singapore
Closed Tuesday
(From a summer 2010 visit)
