TasteAtlas, a travel guide platform, has recently ranked Pa thong ko, a beloved fried dough snack in Thailand, as the fifth-best 'street food sweet' in the world. The reviewer on TasteAtlas provides a delectable description of how the snack is made: "Pa thong ko is Thailand's take on the well-known Chinese crullers known as youtiao. To create the crullers, a combination of flour, yeast, baking ammonia, alum powder, lukewarm water, salt, sugar, and baking powder is kneaded into dough.
The dough is then coated in oil, left to rest, and cut into long strips. Pairs of strips are meticulously attached to one another to achieve the crullers' iconic shape before being deep-fried in hot oil until they are a gorgeous color, puffy, and slightly crispy. Over time, innovative ways of shaping the crullers beyond their conventional form have surfaced, and now, pa thong ko can be found in a variety of unique shapes, such as dinosaurs or dragons."
The dough is then coated in oil, left to rest, and cut into long strips. Pairs of strips are meticulously attached to one another to achieve the crullers' iconic shape before being deep-fried in hot oil until they are a gorgeous color, puffy, and slightly crispy. Over time, innovative ways of shaping the crullers beyond their conventional form have surfaced, and now, pa thong ko can be found in a variety of unique shapes, such as dinosaurs or dragons."
