The potato cakes can be shallow or deep-fried until crisp outside and meltingly soft inside.

薯饼可以微煎或熟炸，直到变得外脆内软。

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Deep Fried Types: Various kinds of Fried cakes, Fried dough twists, oily flour.

深油炸面试有：种类繁多的油炸饼油炸麻花油炸面。

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Examples of high saturated fat snacks include cookies, wafer biscuits, cakes, egg tart etc.; oily deep-fried snacks include deep-fried chicken wing and French fries.

饱和脂肪含量高的零食有曲奇、威化饼干、蛋糕、蛋挞等；还有油炸类零食，比如油炸鸡翅和炸薯条。

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We knew about funnel cakes, those gilded, decadent spirals of deep-fried batter found at fairs of all stripes: street, county or state.

NPR: The Curious Incident of the Funnel Cake in the Lawn