Chinese Fried Toffee Bananas

Hong Kong

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Lavender & Lovage: A Culinary Notebook of Memories & Recipes From Home & Abroad

By Karen Burns-Booth

Published 2019

  • About

A very naughty and calorific dessert that I may treat myself to once a year. Beloved of all Chinese restaurants and takeaways, I first enjoyed a paper cone filled with these deep-fried treats in Hong King during my teens. I was under strict instructions not to eat any street food as Mum was worried about “dirty water” but when I visited my best friend for the weekend, that all fell by the wayside as we meandered through the street food markets in Kowloon. We watched as the hawker dexterousl