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	'''Hong Kong French Toast''' (Chinese: 西多士; Pinyin: ''Xīduōshì''; Cantonese: ''sāi dō sí'') is a [[Hong Kong Food]] cha chaan teng classic: thick white bread sandwiches peanut butter or jam, is ~~egged and~~ deep-fried, then ~~topped~~ with a slab ~~of butter~~ and golden syrup or ~~honey~~.<ref name="wp">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong-style_French_toast English Wikipedia]</ref>		'''Hong Kong French Toast''' (Chinese: 西多士; Pinyin: ''Xīduōshì''; Cantonese: ''sāi dō sí'') is a [[Hong Kong Food]] cha chaan teng classic: thick white bread sandwiches peanut butter, kaya, or jam, is dipped in egg, deep-fried until the exterior crisps, then crowned with a cold butter slab and golden syrup, honey, or condensed milk.<ref name="wp">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong-style_French_toast English Wikipedia: Hong Kong-style French toast]</ref>

	== Characteristics ==		== Characteristics ==

	Crisp ~~exterior~~, soft interior, ~~very sweet~~ and rich. ~~Distinct~~ from pan-fried Western French toast; the ~~deep~~-~~fry and~~ butter ~~crown are~~ the ~~HK markers~~.		Crisp fried crust, soft eggy interior, and a deliberately rich sweet finish. The deep-fry step and butter-and-syrup crown are the Hong Kong markers that separate it from lightly pan-fried Western brunch French toast. Fillings stay simple in the classic form; cheese, ham, or other savory-sweet variants appear as menu experiments without erasing the peanut-butter archetype.<ref name="zhw">[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%A4%9A%E5%A3%AB Chinese Wikipedia: Hong Kong French toast]</ref>

			Color is golden-brown; texture contrast—crunch outside, soft inside, melting butter on top—is the point of the plate.

	== Ingredients (overview) ==		== Ingredients (overview) ==

	~~White~~ sandwich bread, peanut butter or ~~kaya/~~jam, egg wash, oil for frying, butter, syrup. Often paired with milk tea.		Encyclopedic overview only: white sandwich bread; peanut butter, kaya, or jam; egg wash; oil for frying; butter; syrup or condensed milk. Often paired with Hong Kong milk tea. No recipe steps here.

	== History and culture ==		== History and culture ==

	~~Icon~~ of Hong Kong tea-restaurant (cha chaan teng) ~~culture on~~ [[Hong Kong ~~Food~~]], ~~alongside~~ [[Yuenyeung]], [[~~Hong Kong Milk Tea~~]]~~, and~~ [[~~Pineapple Bun~~]].		The toast is an icon of Hong Kong tea-restaurant (cha chaan teng) hybrid dining, where Western bread and dairy meet local sweet-savory snack habits. It commonly appears in afternoon tea sets beside [[Hong Kong Milk Tea]], [[Yuenyeung]], and bakery peers such as [[Pineapple Bun]]—not as a dim-sum cart item.<ref name="wp" />

			Exact invention dating is not fixed to a single patent; food writers treat it as mid-twentieth-century cha chaan teng repertoire that stabilized as a bilingual menu staple (Chinese name 西多士 echoing French toast). The plate illustrates Hong Kong’s comfort with deep-fried bread sweets as everyday cafe food rather than hotel brunch only.

			Within [[Hong Kong Food]] it stands with milk tea as a tourism and local nostalgia symbol. Diaspora Hong Kong cafes abroad keep it as a quick identity order.

	== Serving and variations ==		== Serving and variations ==

	Afternoon snack or dessert with tea. ~~See [[Hong Kong Food]] and~~ [[~~Yuenyeung~~]].		Afternoon snack or dessert with tea or coffee; also breakfast in some cafes. Pan-fried shortcuts exist but the deep-fried butter-crowned form is the reference grammar. Do not merge with Western French toast or with other HK bakery icons such as [[Egg Waffle]].

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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| pinyin = Xīduōshì
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'''Hong Kong French Toast''' (Chinese: 西多士; Pinyin: ''Xīduōshì''; Cantonese: ''sāi dō sí'') is a [[Hong Kong Food]] cha chaan teng classic: thick white bread sandwiches peanut butter or jam, is egged and deep-fried, then topped with a slab of butter and golden syrup or honey.<ref name="wp">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong-style_French_toast English Wikipedia]</ref>

== Characteristics ==

Crisp exterior, soft interior, very sweet and rich. Distinct from pan-fried Western French toast; the deep-fry and butter crown are the HK markers.

== Ingredients (overview) ==

White sandwich bread, peanut butter or kaya/jam, egg wash, oil for frying, butter, syrup. Often paired with milk tea.

== History and culture ==

Icon of Hong Kong tea-restaurant (cha chaan teng) culture on [[Hong Kong Food]], alongside [[Yuenyeung]], [[Hong Kong Milk Tea]], and [[Pineapple Bun]].

== Serving and variations ==

Afternoon snack or dessert with tea. See [[Hong Kong Food]] and [[Yuenyeung]].

== See also ==

* [[Hong Kong Food]]
* [[Yuenyeung]]
* [[Hong Kong Milk Tea]]
* [[Pineapple Bun]]
* [[Egg Waffle]]
* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]

== References ==
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