Ox-tongue pastry

Ox-tongue pastry
Ox-tongue pastry
Chinese	牛うし脷酥
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	niúlìsū
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	ngau4 lei6 sou1

Ox-tongue pastry
	An ox-tongue pastry that is available in congee restaurants in Hong Kong
Alternative names	Horse-ear pastry
Type	Doughnut
Place of origin	Guangdong or Fujian, China
Main ingredients	fried dough
	Media: Ox-tongue pastry;

Ox-tongue pastry (Chinese: 牛うし脷酥; pinyin: niúlìsū; Jyutping: ngau⁴ lei⁶ sou¹) or horse-ear pastry (Chinese: 马耳; pinyin: mǎěr), also referred to as Chinese doughnut, is a Chinese pastry that is popular in south China in the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. It is a fried dough food that is elliptical in shape and resembles an ox tongue or a horse ear. The pastry texture is chewy, with a soft interior and a crunchy crust. Ox-tongue pastry is lightly sweetened, and eaten as part of breakfast with soy milk. The pastry is made in a similar way as Youtiao, with sugar typically added to the flour.^[1]