Shrimp toast

Shrimp toast or prawn toast is a Chinese dim sum dish. It is made from small triangles of bread, brushed with egg and coated with minced shrimp and water chestnuts, then cooked by baking or deep frying. It is a common appetizer in Australian and American Chinese cuisine. A common variant in the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland is sesame prawn toast. This involves sprinkling sesame seeds before the baking or deep frying process.

Shrimp toast
Vietnamese shrimp toast
Alternative namesPrawn toast, hatosi
TypeDim sum
CourseSnack food
Place of originChina
Region or stateGuangzhou
Main ingredientsBread, eggs, shrimp, water chestnuts
VariationsSesame prawn toast
  • Deep-fried shrimp mince toast
  • Sesame prawn toast
  • Hatoshi of Shippoku cuisine in Nagasaki, Japan

History

This dish has over 100 years of history, originating in Guangzhou (Canton), in China's Guangdong Province. It is called hatosi 蝦多士 in Cantonese, from ha, meaning shrimp, and tosi, a loan word from English meaning toast. [1]The dish's range expanded along with foreign trade, making its way to Japan and Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Thailand.[2]

Japan

The dish was introduced to Japan during the Meiji period through the port of Nagasaki, whose local Shippoku cuisine blended the cookery of China, Japan, and the West. In Japanese, shrimp toast is known as hatoshi (Japanese: ハトシ), a loan word from Cantonese. Many Chinese restaurants and shops in Nagasaki's Chinatown still serve this dish. Some also serve a variant made with pork.

See also

References
  1. "Cantonese Shrimp Toast". DayDayCook. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  2. "Shrimp Toast is Nothing to Pu-Pu". www.wsj.com. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
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