Sago pancake. Sago is often produced commercially in the form of "pearls" (small rounded starch aggregates, partly gelatinized by heating). Sago pearls can be boiled with water or milk and sugar to make a sweet sago pudding. Sago pearls are similar in appearance to the pearled starches of other origin, e.g. cassava starch (tapioca) and potato starch, and they may be used interchangeably in some dishes. The name "sago" is also sometimes used for starch extracted from other sources, especially the sago cycad, "Cycas revoluta". The sago cycad is also commonly known (confusingly) as the sago palm, although this is a
Sago Street restoration in the 1990s. The Cantonese call the street "little temple street" because of the "tua peh kong" temple located there. The Hokkiens (Min Nan speakers) refer the street as "gu chia chui hi hng koi cheng koi", meaning "the street in front of the theatre (street) in Kreta Ayer". The funeral parlours are located on nearby Sago Lane and not Sago Street. As such, Sago Lane has always being referred to as "sei yang gai" or "street of the dead" in Cantonese. However, there is no cemeteries in Sago Lane. During the years 1950 to 2000, the entire Sago