Youtiao, known in Southern China as Yu Char Kway is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough of Chinese origin and also popular in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines.
Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn lengthwise in two. Youtiao are normally eaten at breakfast as an accompaniment for rice congee, soy milk or regular milk blended with sugar. Youtiao may also be known as a Chinese cruller, Chinese oil stick, Chinese donut (sticks), Chinese breadstick, and fried breadstick.
In other Asian countries, they may also be called bicho, you char kway, cakwe, cakoi, kueh, kuay, shakoy or pathongko, among others.