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Churros are fried until they become crunchy, and may be sprinkled with sugar. The surface of a churro is ridged due to having been piped from a churrera, a syringe-like tool with a star-shaped nozzle. Churros are generally prisms in shape, and may be straight, curled or spirally twisted.
Youtiao (traditional Chinese: 油條; simplified Chinese: 油条; pinyin: Yóutiáo), known in Southern China as yu char kway, is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of wheat flour dough of Chinese origin and (by a variety of other names) also popular in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines.
According to legend, Mahua originated two thousand years ago when legends say a giant fiery bowl came to earth from the stars. At that time, people celebrated a three-day festival in which they remember how glowing people with big eyes and grey skin came out of the bowl and showed a symbol of two glowing coils which they said was used to create life and this is what inspired the shape of Mahua.
Another theory is that farturas may have been an adaptation of the Spanish churros, which were created by shepherds as a substitute for foods made with fresh pasta. Churro dough was easy to produce and fry over an open fire in the mountains, where shepherds lived most of the time.
The history of Chinese cuisine is marked by both variety and change. The archaeologist and scholar Kwang-chih Chang says "Chinese people are especially preoccupied with food" and "food is at the center of, or at least it accompanies or symbolizes, many social interactions". Over the course of history, he says, "continuity vastly outweighs change."
Sweet and sour bid-bid (Pacific tenpounder) ballsSweet and sour dishes, sauces, and cooking methods have a long history in China. One of the earliest recordings of sweet and sour may come from Shaowei Yanshi Dan (traditional Chinese: 燒尾宴食單; simplified Chinese: 烧尾宴食单; pinyin: shāowěi yànshí dān), [2] a menu of the food served in Tang dynasty (618-907) "Shaowei banquet ...
There's currently one reference listed for this article. It comes from the California Churros franchise restaurant's web page on the history of the churro. I find the source to be somewhat not reliable. I suspect that they just set down in writing what they knew to be the popular history of the churro, rather anything based on actual research.
Chinese creation myths are symbolic narratives about the origins of the universe, earth, and life. Myths in China vary from culture to culture. In Chinese mythology, the term "cosmogonic myth" or "origin myth" is more accurate than "creation myth", since very few stories involve a creator deity or divine will.