You Tiao (油条) — Chinese Crullers: The Breakfast Tradition
Northern China
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You tiao (油条, literally oil stick or oil strip) are the long, golden, slightly crispy-on-the-outside, airy-on-the-inside Chinese fried dough sticks that are one of the most ubiquitous breakfast foods across China, eaten alongside congee, soy milk, or wrapped in cheung fun rice noodle rolls. They are made from a yeasted dough with a chemical leavener (traditionally alum — aluminium sulfate — which is increasingly replaced with aluminium-free baking powder in modern recipes) that is deep-fried in pairs, the two sticks pressed together at the center expanding away from each other as they fry, producing the characteristic double-stick shape.
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