Gouzi
Pieces of youtiao
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| Alternative names | Chinese cruller |
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| Type | Doughnut |
| Place of origin | China |
| Region or state | China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand |
| Main ingredients | Dough |
| Youtiao | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 油條 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 油条 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Literal meaning | oil strip | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yu Char Kway | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 油炸粿/餜/鬼 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 油炸粿/馃/鬼 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | yóuzháguǒ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | oil-fried pastry (or devil) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guozi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 餜子 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 馃子 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | guǒzi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | pastry | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Burmese name | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burmese | အီကြာကွေး | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thai | ปาท่องโก๋ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| RTGS | pathongko | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Indonesian | cakwe | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | |
| Wade–Giles | yu2-t'iao2 |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | yiu tiao |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | yàuh tíu |
| Jyutping | jau4 tiu4*2 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | yóuzháguǒ |
| Wade–Giles | yu2-cha2-kuo3 |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | yiu za gui |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | yàuhjagwái |
| Jyutping | jau4-zaa3-gwai2 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | iû-chiā-kóe |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | guǒzi |
| Wade–Giles | kuo3-tzu0 |
Youtiao, also known as Chinese fried churros, Chinese cruller,Chinese oil stick,Chinese doughnut, You Char Kway/Cakwe/Cakoi/Kueh/Kuay (in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore), and fried breadstick, is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough eaten in China and (by a variety of other names) in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines. Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn lengthwise in two.Youtiao are normally eaten at breakfast as an accompaniment for rice congee, soy milk or regular milk blended with sugar.
At breakfast, youtiao can be stuffed inside shāobǐng (Traditional Chinese: 燒餅, Simplified Chinese:烧饼; literally roasted flatbread) to make a sandwich known as shāobǐng yóutiáo (Traditional Chinese: 燒餅油條, Simplified Chinese： 烧饼油条). Youtiao wrapped in a rice noodle roll is known as zháliǎng. In Yunnan, a roasted riceflour pancake usually wrapped around a youtiao is known as shaoerkuai (Traditional Chinese: 燒餌塊, Simplified Chinese: 烧饵块). Yet another name for a sandwich variant is jianbingguǒzi (Traditional Chinese: 煎餅果子, Simplified Chinese: 煎饼果子; literally youtiao and fried bread).
Youtiao are used to dip into various soups, for example xidoufen.
Youtiao is also an important ingredient of the food Cífàn tuán in Shanghai cuisine.
Tánggāo (糖糕), or "sugar cake", is a sweet, fried food item similar in appearance to youtiao but shorter in length.
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