Where To Find MA's Unhealthiest Menu Item

BOSTON — You might think the carb overload of a three-course meal on the North End or one of the region's gourmet doughnut shops would be home to the state's unhealthiest menu item. You'd be wrong — though doughnuts are absolutely involved.

According to the Eat This, Not That website, the state's most artery clogging meal comes from an Asian restaurant in Boston's Chinatown: Double Chin. Double Chin is known for a variety of things, from spicy chunky tuna sandwiches, ramen crusted fried chicken and a variety of foods that make me want to head right up I-95 now and abandon the work day.

But what Double Chin might be best known for is its "French toast on steroids." And one of those French toast plates is what Eat This, Not That, declared the unhealthiest menu item in all of Massachusetts. It's the salted egg yolk French toast.

"On the outside, this eatery seems innocuous, but one glance at the menu can change everything," the website review said. "They have some intense sweet offerings like a Salted Egg Yolk French Toast and multiple Donut Bombs with huge scoops of ice cream over massive donuts complete with syrup-filled syringes. They get major points for creativity, though!"

While the salted egg yolk French toast was specifically mentioned by the website, Double Chin has plenty of other menu items that look incredible but don't belong on anyone's weight loss plan.

Full disclosure: I'm no health nut, though my doctor probably wishes I was. I'm from the South Shore and am known to eat an entire bar pizza in one sitting, and sometimes order another for later. I'd 100 percent try Double Chin's French toast, and will likely do so the next time I'm in the city.

Here's a few other Double Chin plates I personally want to make a guilty pleasure out of.

• Hong Kong-style French toast, stuffed with peanut butter and topped with red beans and condensed milk
• Donut bomb, stuffed with ice cream. You got the choice of strawberry ice cream with a custard filling and a berry syringe, or matcha ice cream with red bean filling and a matcha syringe.
• Macaron ice cream sandwich
• Ramen crusted fried chicken.