Pictures of Fried Ghost aka Yau tiu (Chinese Fried bread)

Submitted by Roland on Fri, 07/11/2003 - 17:41

In last week's Georgia Straight, Stephen Wong wrote another excellent installment of what I call his 'decoding Chinese food for non-Chinese people'. I would link to it, except that searching the Straight archives is a difficult and time consuming task!

Anyways, here are some photos of the Fried Ghost aka You Tiao aka Chinese Fried Bread. The transliterations of the names of Chinese food can be confusing because Mandarin which is most common worldwide and Cantonese (the language of southern China and Hong Kong) which is most common in Vancouver, are very much different ; just as different as Dutch and German! I have therefore provided Cantonese transliterations because Cantonese restaurants are most common in Vancouver.

Here's a picture of Double Double's yau ja gwai. This is a savoury bread best dipped in Congee.

Ngau lei so is sweet variation of Chinese fried bread and here is a photo.

Finally here is a picture of ham jin beng which is Chinese fried bread filled with sweet and savoury red bean paste


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SaabKen (not verified)

Sun, 07/13/2003 - 16:25

The Shaghai Restaurant on Kingsway (just east of Fraser, across from ICBC) serves 14" long yo tiaos that come piping hot. Many would argue, as my parents would, that yo tiaos were invented by the Northern Chinese and only they are the authentic version, while the southern Cantonese only bastardized it with their soggy variety. Also, northern Chinese properly eat yo tiaos sandwiched between "shao bing", a brickoven baked flat rectangular lavened bread coated with sesame seeds. Each person should eat all this with an accompanying large bowl of steaming hot sweetened (or savoury) soymilk ... like how the French drink their coffee. Each person's yo tiao, shao bing and soymilk should come under $5 and makes part of an excellent weekend brunch. The Shanghai also offers numerous northern Chinese dim sum items, none of which resemble Cantonese dim sums so typical of most Vancouver restaurants. OK, this ought to get Roland and Barb out to The Shanghai and write a review for us .... :-) There you'll also find

Roland Tanglao (not verified)

Mon, 07/14/2003 - 22:44

hey ken we'll eventually make it out there but why don't you write a guest review :-) ! thanks for the tip! ....Roland