Exporting Frozen Scallion Pancakes, Green Onion Pancakes and Sweet Potato Balls: Shipping, Storage and Overseas Markets

Quick Answer

Frozen Taiwanese snacks are made in Taiwanese factories, quick-frozen and exported, so overseas shops just heat and sell without a skilled dough maker. Popular items include scallion pancakes, green onion pancakes, sweet potato balls, taro cakes and roasted sweet potatoes. Frozen snacks must ship in a reefer (frozen) container all the way. Products containing meat, such as meat dumplings or chicken cutlets, face many quarantine limits, so exports focus on vegetarian or meat-free items.

Scallion Pancakes vs Green Onion Pancakes

Product	Features	How to heat	Popular ways to serve
frozen scallion pancakes	Many thin layers; scrunched with a spatula while cooking to separate them (zhua bing)	Pan-fry straight from frozen	With egg, cheese or basil
frozen green onion pancakes	Thicker; crisp outside and soft inside	Pan-fry or bake	Sliced as a snack, with sauce
frozen sweet potato balls	Chewy, hollow little balls	Deep-fry or air-fry	Dusted with plum powder
frozen taro cakes	Flaky pastry with taro paste filling	Oven or air fryer	Afternoon tea snack
frozen roasted sweet potatoes	Roasted, then frozen sweet potatoes	Thaw or microwave	Chilled roasted sweet potato dessert

Shipping and Storing Frozen Snacks

Reefer container: exports ship in frozen containers and must stay frozen from factory to store.
Storage: move them into the freezer on arrival and keep them at the temperature on the label; do not refreeze after thawing.
Loading: frozen goods ship with other frozen goods, not in the same container as shelf-stable pearls and tea. For small volumes, ask about shared frozen loads.

Quarantine Limits on Meat Products

Meat-filled dumplings, chicken cutlets and other meat products face strict animal quarantine rules in Europe, the US and other markets, so many Taiwanese makers switch to vegetarian recipes or build plants abroad. Tang Sugar does not currently export meat products; our frozen snacks focus on dough, sweet potato and taro items without meat.

Frozen Snack Export Data

Item (HS code)	2016	2025	10-year change
Stuffed pasta, dumplings (190220)	about US$5.5 million	about US$8.0 million	+44%
Other bakery products (190590)	about US$139.2 million	about US$177.6 million	+28%

On Google Trends, scallion pancakes are among the most searched frozen Taiwanese snacks. Shoppers abroad search “frozen scallion pancakes”; in Japan 葱油餅冷凍, in Korea 총유빙.

How Tang Sugar Can Help

Tang Sugar supplies frozen snacks including frozen scallion pancakes, frozen green onion pancakes, frozen sweet potato balls, frozen taro cakes and frozen roasted sweet potatoes. Every Tang Sugar shipment comes with a Certificate of Origin and a Certificate of Analysis (COA), available on request. Frozen items ship in a reefer container and can be arranged as a separate container on the same order as your shelf-stable ingredients. Contact us for a quote or request samples.

Note: export figures are Taiwan Ministry of Finance HS 6-digit statistics. Some codes cover broad product groups, so use them as trends only. Check the latest import rules with the authorities in your country.

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FAQ

Do frozen scallion pancakes need thawing?

No. Put them straight into a pan over low heat, brown both sides, then scrunch with a spatula to separate the layers.

Can frozen snacks ship with bubble tea ingredients?

Frozen items need a reefer container and shelf-stable items a regular one, so they cannot share a container, but they can be arranged as separate containers on one order.