Glossary Y
You Tiao Shao Bing refers to Chinese bread served for breakfast - a fried cruller folded inside a fluffy sesame-sprinkled pancake, essentially a bread sandwich.
Shao Bing are sesame pancakes which are served in some Beijing-style fried dumpling shops in New York where flat-bottomed woks are used to sear the dumplings. After cooking and out of wok, the pancake which is the size of a large pizza issprinkled with sesame seeds, hacked into wedges, dabbed with hoisin sauce and stuffed with braised beef. The crunchy sandwich has a flaky interior and golden crust with a flavor of a scallion.
Yao Guo is the Chinese (Pinyin) for "cashew nuts". In China, nuts are always readily available. They come fresh in the market, salted, packaged, fried or even coated.
Yellow butter refers to one of Mongolia's dairy products. Yellow butter is made from White butter . Either fresh or sour White butter is heated in a pot until the yellow butter oil is melted. This is separated from the white butter cream. Milk from cows, sheep, goats and camels can be used for white as well as for yellow butter.
It is interesting to note that Mongolian people usually take a bowl of yellow butter with them before starting on a long journey. They use it for their long journeys or when at home served with pan fried millet and pancakes.
Yumurta is the Turkish word for "Egg", example
Sahanda Yumurta and Yagda Yumurta mean fried eggs.