What dim sum dish is a bread slice topped with shrimp paste and deep-fried?

The dim sum dish made from bread topped with shrimp paste and deep-fried is shrimp toast. Also called prawn toast, it uses small bread triangles coated with minced shrimp and cooked by deep-frying or baking.

Shrimp toast is associated with Hong Kong and represents an early form of fusion cuisine: Cantonese prawn paste was combined with Western-style toast. In Cantonese, it is called haa dō si, meaning “prawn toast.” Sesame prawn toast is a popular variation in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland.

The dish is easy to confuse with other fried dim sum, but crab rangoon contains a cream-cheese filling, while egg rolls and spring rolls use wrapped pastry rather than bread. Shrimp toast also traveled through trading and migration routes to Japan and Southeast Asia. In Nagasaki, Japan, it is known as hatoshi and became part of Shippoku cuisine, which blends Chinese, Japanese, and Western influences.