youtiao
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Youtiao (), known in Southern China as yau char kway (), is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of wheat flour dough of Chinese origin and (by a variety of other names) also popular in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Youtiao
- Food.image
- Youtiao.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Pieces of youtiao
- Food.alternate_name
- Chinese cruller
- Food.place_of_origin
- China
- Food.region
- Guangdong
- Food.associated_cuisine
- China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Myanmar, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan
- Food.course
- Breakfast
- Food.type
- Donut
- Food.served
- Fried
- Food.main_ingredient
- Dough
- Chinese.w
- yu2-t'iao2
- Chinese.h
- yiu tiao
- Chinese.y
- yàuh tíu
- Chinese.p
- yóutiáo
- Chinese.j
- jau⁴ tiu⁴*²
- Chinese.wuu
- hhieu diau (T3)
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Culinary applications and variants
- Names
- Cambodia
- China
- Folk etymology
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- See also
- Other Chinese fried dough dishes
- Explanatory notes
- References
Youtiao (), known in Southern China as yau char kway (), is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of wheat flour dough of Chinese origin and (by a variety of other names) also popular in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines.
Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and easily separated by hand. Youtiao are normally eaten at breakfast as an accompaniment for rice congee, soy milk or cow's milk blended with sugar. Youtiao may also be known as a Chinese cruller, Chinese oil stick, Chinese donut [sticks], and fried breadstick, among others.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “youtiao” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.