a popular breakfast snack throughout many asian countries, it is often eaten with other dishes as well, such as with rice porridge, beancurd dessert, or tau suan (split mung bean soup).
cantonese: yau char kwai - 油炸鬼
- yau: cantonese for oil
- char: cantonese for deep-fry
- gwai: cantonese for devil/ghost
mandarin: youtiao - 油條
- you: mandarin for oil
- tiao: mandarin for strip
malaysia: cakoi
- cakoi: derived from char kway, hokkien for deep-fried kueh
indonesia: cakwe
- cakwe: derived from char kway, hokkien for deep-fried kueh