noun
Chinese smoked and salted ham
A specific Chinese-style cured ham, similar to Jinhua ham. Rarely encountered outside specialized culinary contexts.
この料理には臘乾が使われている。
This dish uses Chinese smoked and salted ham.
From Chinese 臘乾 (là gān), referring to cured meat dried in the twelfth lunar month (臘月). The exact historical borrowing path into Japanese is uncertain.