Youtiao

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Youtiao is a golden-brown strip of fried wheat dough with a crisp exterior and tender interior, lightly salted and easy to tear apart by hand. Born in China, it's become a fixture across East and Southeast Asia under countless names—you char kway, cakwe, pathongko, among many others. Traditionally served at breakfast alongside congee, soy milk, or sweetened cow's milk, it's the kind of simple, satisfying partner that makes mornings feel complete.

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Youtiao (Chinese: 油條), known in Southern China as yau char kway (Chinese: 油炸鬼), 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. In other Asian countries, they may also be called bicho, you char kway, cakwe, cakoi, kueh, kuay, shakoy or pathongko, among other names.

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