Chuánshuō bǎixìng hèntòu le Qín Huì, jiù bǎ miàntuán niēchéng tā de yàngzi xiàguō zhá, jiàozuò " yóuzháhuì ".
Legend says people hated Qin Hui so much that they shaped dough into his likeness and fried it, calling it 'fried Hui'.
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桧 is read huì here, as in the name of 秦桧, the Southern Song chancellor blamed for the death of 岳飞; as 'juniper' the same character is guì. In Cantonese the snack is 油炸鬼 (jau⁴ zaa³ gwai²) 'fried ghost', a name often traced to the same story.
