Posted by Roland Tanglao on 7/11/03; 5:41:12 PM
From the Features dept.
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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