====== vegetarian luo bo gao ======

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Here's a recipe for a vegetarian radish cake, called luo bo gao in Mandarin, from bai luo bo, which is daikon in Japanese.

**ingredients**

  - 350 grams of rice flour
  - two cups of water
  - a few tablespoons of grapeseed oil
  - one daikon
  - one onion
  - (optional) enough vegetarian duck or ham to complement the onion
  - Chinese-style spicy oil to taste
  - one clove of garlic
  - one thick slice of ginger
  - white pepper to taste
  - one tablespoon of salt
  - four tablespoons of white cooking wine

**cooking instructions**

  - Grind the daikon and put it in a pot.
  - Mince the garlic and ginger and add it to the daikon.
  - Add the white pepper and cooking wine.
  - Boil this mixture for 25 minutes.
  - While it is boiling, chop the onion and the fake meat into tiny pieces.
  - Stirfry with the grapeseed oil and spicy oil until the onions are semi-transparent.
  - Put the rice flour in a bowl with the water and mix well.
  - Add the stirfried stuff and salt.
  - When the daikon is finished boiling, add it too.
  - Mix well.
  - Get the container from an electric rice cooker and pour in half of the mixture.
  - Make sure it is spread evenly in the bottom of the pot and then cook it on the brown-rice setting.
  - When it's finished, remove the pot and let it cool well; it will shrink slightly when it is cool.
  - Quickly turn over the pan and let the cake fall out flat. 
  - Cook the other half of the mixture.
  - When the cake has cooled well, you can slice it.
  - Pan-fry the sliced cake in a frying pan, and serve with soy sauce for dipping.

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