Next Up: Youtiao
Reader Bronwyn requested these a couple of weeks ago, but I had French pastry on the brain at the time. So at the risk of creating jet lag amongst all you good readers — Paris to China with a brief layover in ancient Mesoamerica — let’s make some oil sticks.
Well that just sent me over to Google. (And I suspect I was not alone.) Looking forward to this adventure.
I hope you’ll start with the pronunciation guide. ;>
Oh no. My wife the linguist taught me to never mess with tonal languages. You may get the consonants right, but inflecting the vowels in the wrong direction can change “that’s a lovely wedding gown” into “please pass me the cow dung”. Or something along those lines. You’ll have to guess!
– Joe