You tiao, sometimes
known in English as Chinese cruller, fried bread stick or
Chinese doughnut, is a long, golden-brown, deep fried strip of
dough in Chinese cuisine and other East and Southeast Asian cuisines and
is usually eaten for breakfast.
Left:Pieces of You
tiao.
Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn
lengthwise in two (youtiao are often made as two
foot-long rolls of dough joined along the middle).
Youtiao are normally eaten as an accompaniment for rice congee or soy milk.