Dishes

fried wontons

炸餛飩

Also called: 炸雲吞 · deep-fried wontons

Pork wontons deep-fried until golden and crisp.

Photo: Shuma Shuam CHENMIEL, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: lazy fri13th, CC BY 2.0

Photo: Jon Sullivan, Public domain

What it is

Ordinary pork wontons that are deep-fried instead of boiled, so the thin wrapper turns crisp while the filling stays juicy.

Wontons with a pork filling are deep-fried until the skin is golden.

A plate goes on the side of wonton noodles or wonton soup.

Hei Chien Wenzhou Wonton King, in Kaohsiung's Yancheng since the late 1950s, sells them alongside its wonton noodles.

An evening wonton shop in Yancheng whose sign dates it to 1958, serving big pork wontons in soup or tossed in chilli oil.

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