The YAKBAP!

[CaptainDangerous]

Created yesterday in Yakchat by the great men of the tribe the Yakbap is any item from a Chinese takeaway placed inside any form of bread!
Iv created this thread so folks can create their own take on the yak delicacy and to show off my own.
Introducing........The Captain

Szechuan shredded beef in a stottie on a bed of chips!
(Iv included the fork and pound in the picture for scale)

Wubba lubba dub dub!

 

[Fold]

The scale is dearly needed here or I never would have realised the truly astronomical scale of that piece of bread.

 

[CaptainDangerous]

It handled like a kebab but ate like a hot beef sandwich!
I would forgive anyone to think, from the first pic, that it was on a small plate with fries, but no, it is a full size dinner plate with proper chips!

 

[=][=SW1=][=]

Tis truly a beautiful view.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Nice - but one can’t help but notice you’ve used a proscribed southern term - Bap? @CaptainDangerous i thought better of you

 

[Punktaku]

is a “stottie” a really big version of a Thomas’s English Muffin?

edit: like, four times the size?

 

[Fold]

Not tried one, but the description of a Stotty as being a very heavy dough certainly sounds somewhat similar to a muffin.

However, it could be a big version of anyone's muffin, not just Thomas's (whoever Thomas is!)

 

[Punktaku]

He’s the muffin man. Lives on Brewery Lane.

Edit: Not Drury Lane. That one’s a lame-o.

 

[Stoof]

Hah, brilliant! Good idea with the reference pound - unenlightened people may indeed have thought it was just a regular bun on a side plate.

Long live the stottie! Long live YakBaps!

@ClockworkOrange: I don't think bap is that regional. Part of the reason I chose it. YakBun sounded like a sweet rather than savoury affair.

 

[Tiny]

Oh my. That is one of the best looking sandwiches I've ever laid eyes on.
Wish I'd thought to put last night's chicken satay and pancake roll in some kind of bread but alas, it is all gone.

 

[Alaric]

It handled like a kebab but ate like a hot beef sandwich!

I laughed like a madman at that. I feel the innuendo on that phrase could be the stuff of legends.

 

[spafe]

v created this thread so folks can create their own take on the yak delicacy

new reuqirement for the venue for the tribemeet next year.. must be near a chinese and a bakery... Yakbaps for all!!!

 

[cardyfreak]

Wor lass is a product developer for Greggs. I'll get her to chore a load of stotties.

 

[spafe]

Wor lass is a product developer for Greggs. I'll get her to chore a load of stotties.

I... I think that was English... maybe some old form of English spoken by Heathens and Barbarians though...

 

[Tiny]

I used to watch Byker Grove as a youngster so can translate that pretty well.

What I think "Jeff-man" here was saying is something about a young ladyfriend of his having gainful employment at Gregory's bakers and thusly the ability to commandeer a shipment of bread roll products.

 

[spafe]

Why thank you my good man for that service of translating the ruffians words

 

[BeardLegend]

I'm seeing a lot of chatter and not enough YAKBAPS!!!

Chinese this weekend then ...

 

[cardyfreak]

I used to watch Byker Grove as a youngster so can translate that pretty well.

What I think "Jeff-man" here was saying is something about a young ladyfriend of his having gainful employment at Gregory's bakers and thusly the ability to commandeer a shipment of bread roll products.

Exactly so, my good man, exactly so

 

[timdp]

Interesting, WTF is a stottie?

Wkikipedia:
"A stottie cake or stotty is a type of bread that originated in North East England.[1] It is a flat and round loaf, usually about 30 centimetres (12 inches) in diameter and 4 centimetres (1.6 inches) deep, with an indent in the middle produced by the baker. Elsewhere in the world, bread considered similar to the stottie is known as "oven bottom bread". One chief difference is the heavy and dough-like texture of the bread. Though leavened, its taste and mouth-feel is heavy and very reminiscent of dough.

Stotties tend to be eaten split and filled. Common fillings include ham and pease pudding,[2] but also bacon, egg and sausage. The heavy texture of the bread gives it its name. To "stott" means "to bounce"[3] because if dropped it would (in theory) bounce. Stotting is also used by biologists to describe the jumping behaviour of antelopes in response to predators."

Further:
"So, what's the connection between stotting, or bouncing, and this cake? Well, traditionally, makers of the cake bounced it on kitchen floors to determine if it was the right texture.
Cakes that failed to bounce were tossed out. But due to concerns about hygiene, this practice has fallen by the wayside."

So how are we North Americans going to be able to partake of this feast with no stotties? In blues parlance, it is apparently a ricochet biscuit: "A ricochet biscuit is the
kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. If it don't bounce back, hee hee hee, ... you go hungry!" -Elwood Blues

But this does not help us find a US equivalent. I'm not even finding a US equivalent to oven bottom bread. There are stottie recipies on the web, so that may be our only option...

 

[Stoof]

As the inventor of the YakBap, I hereby rule that any form of bread bun can be used as the basis for a YakBap.

Still gotta be Chinese food in it though