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Fried shuangbaotai with sesame seeds | |
Type | Doughnut |
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Place of origin | Fuzhou |
Main ingredients | Dough |
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Traditional Chinese | 雙胞胎 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 双胞胎 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | twins | ||||||||||
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Minnan name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 馬花糋 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 马花糋 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | horse hoof cake | ||||||||||
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Shuangbaotai (simplified Chinese: 双胞胎; traditional Chinese: 雙胞胎; pinyin: shuāngbāotāi) is a sweet fried dough food of Hokchew origin commonly found as a Taiwanese street food. It is a chewy fried dough containing large air pockets on the inside and a crisp crust on the outside. It is made by twisting two small pieces of dough together and frying them, causing them to separate slightly while remaining connected.
Names
The Mandarin Chinese name of this food, shuāngbāotāi (Chinese: 雙胞胎) meaning "twins", is derived from the fact that the dish is two pastries twisted slightly together as if conjoined twins. The Taiwanese Hokkien name is 馬花糋 (bé-hoe-chìⁿ), which roughly means "horse-hoof cake", also in reference to its shape. Another Hokkien name is 雙生仔 (siang-siⁿ-á) meaning twins.
Regional
In Taiwan, shuangbaotai are a type of snack (xiaochi) typically sold by hawkers at street stalls or in night markets, but not in regular restaurants or bakeries.
- Shuangbaotai sold as xiaochi street food
See also
- Taiwanese cuisine
- Fuzhou cuisine
- Fujian cuisine
- List of desserts
- List of doughnut varieties
- List of fried dough varieties
- [REDACTED] Food portal
Other Chinese fried dough dishes
References
- "【記憶裡的古早味】雙胞胎、甜甜圈、麻花捲,中式點心的八里夢工廠 - 文化銀行|BANK OF CULTURE". 文化銀行|BANK OF CULTURE (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
External links
- YTower — A famous maker of shuangbaotai (in Chinese)
- Shuangbaotai Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine at Chiayi Tourism Bureau website — includes photos of shuangabotai (in Chinese)
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