Chinese pancake
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Pancake
A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side...
s are a type of thin flat Bǐng found in Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine is any of several styles originating in the regions of China, some of which have become highly popular in other parts of the world – from Asia to the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa...
. They may be either savory or sweet, and are generally made with dough
Dough
Dough is a paste made out of any cereals or leguminous crops by mixing flour with a small amount of water and/or other liquid. This process is a precursor to making a wide variety of foodstuffs, particularly breads and bread-based items , flatbreads, noodles, pastry, and similar items)...
rather than batter
Batter (cooking)
Batter is a semi-liquid mixture of one or more flours combined with liquids such as water, milk or eggs used to prepare various foods. Often a leavening agent such as baking powder is included to aerate and fluff up the batter as it cooks, or the mixture may be naturally fermented for this purpose...
. They include the following:
- Bao bing (薄饼), a variety of thin pancake
- Bing (饼), the generic Chinese term for disc-shaped flatbreadFlatbreadA flatbread is a simple bread made with flour, water, and salt and then thoroughly rolled into flattened dough. Many flatbreads are unleavened: made without yeast or sourdough culture: although some flatbread is made with yeast, such as pita bread....
s - Green onion pancake (葱油饼), a salty, unleavened flatbread whose dough contains oil and minced scallions (green onions).
- LaobingLaobingLaobing is a type of unleavened flatbread popular in parts of northern China, especially in Beijing. It is sometimes referred to as a Chinese pancake. It is of great similarity to chapati from the Indian subcontinent....
(烙饼), an unleavened flatbread made from wheat flour - Jian bing (煎饼), a thin, fried egg pancake similar to a crepeCrêpeA crêpe or crepe , is a type of very thin pancake, usually made from wheat flour or buckwheat flour . The word is of French origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled". While crêpes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is widespread in France...
See also
- Moo shu porkMoo shu porkMoo shu pork is a dish of northern Chinese origin, possibly originally from Shandong...
, wrapped in a "moo shu pancake" (a thin wrapper made from wheat flour) - Oyster omeletteOyster omeletteOyster omelette is a Chinese dish of Teochew/Fujian origin, made famous in Taiwan...
, made from eggs, starch, and oysters - Peking duckPeking DuckPeking Duck, or Peking Roast Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered one of China's national foods....
, wrapped in a "Mandarin pancake" (a thin wrapper made from wheat flour) - PopiahPopiahPopiah is a Fujian/Chaozhou-style fresh spring roll common in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Popiah is often eaten in the Fujian province of China and its neighbouring Chaoshan on the Qingming Festival. In the Teochew dialect, popiah is pronounced as "Bo-BEE-a", which means "thin wafer"...
, a spring roll wrapped in a crepe-like skin made from wheat flour or rice flour