'' with
scallions
Bing are usually a casual food and generally eaten for lunch, but they can also be incorporated into formal meals. Both
Peking duck and
moo shu pork are rolled up in thin wheat flour
bao bing with scallions and
sweet bean sauce or
hoisin sauce.
Bing may also have a filling such as ground meat.
Bing are commonly cooked on a skillet or griddle although some are baked. Some common types include: •
Cong you bing (蔥油餅; scallions and oil
bing) •
Fa mian bing (發麵餅; yeast-risen
bing) •
Laobing (烙餅; pan fried
bing) •
Chun bing (春餅; spring pancake), a thin, Northern bing traditionally eaten to celebrate the beginning of spring. Usually eaten with a variety of fillings. •
Shaobing (燒餅; baked
bing) •
Donkey burgers, a type of
shaobing stuffed with meat •
Jianbing (煎餅; fried egg pancake, similar to
crepes), a popular breakfast streetfood in China. •
Bó bǐng (
薄饼; literally "thin pancakes"), a thin circular crepe-like wrapper or "skin" (薄餅皮) wrapping various fillings. This is sometimes called "Mandarin pancake" or "moo shu pancake" (木须饼, mù xū bǐng) in
American Chinese food contexts. '' being baked •
Luóbo si bing (萝卜絲餅, shredded radish bing), a type of panfried bing consisting of a wheat dough skin filled with shredded radish •
Rou jia bing (肉夹饼), also called
rou jia mo refers to a
bing that is sliced open and filled with meat, typically stewed pork or lamb meat. Some variants, such as
niu rou jia bing (腊牛肉夹馍) use sesame bread and are filled with beef meat and pickled carrots and daikon, similar to a
banh mi. •
Hé yè bǐng (荷叶饼; a foldable
bing made to represent a lotus leaf), used to accompany many rich meat stuffings and popularized by the
gua bao, a variation with red-cooked pork belly. •
Jin bing (筋饼) is a layered
bing that is made with high-gluten flour (
jin (筋) meaning gluten) popular in Northern China. It is also known as
zhua bing (抓饼) since its layers can be grabbed (
zhua (抓) meaning grab) at with hands. •
Guokui (锅盔), from
Shaanxi •
Hujiao bing (胡椒餅), made with
black pepper The
Yuèbǐng (月餅;
mooncakes), whilst sharing the name bing, is really a baked sweet pastry usually produced and eaten at the
mid-autumn festival. Some other dessert bings are "Wife" cake (老婆饼), which contains winter melon, and the sweetened version of 1000 layer cake (千层饼) which contains
tianmianjiang, sugar, and
five spice or
cinnamon.
Bings are also eaten in other East Asian cultures, the most common being the Korean
Jeon () which often contain seafood. In Japan, the character 餅 usually refers to
mochi (glutinous rice cakes), but is also used for some other foods including
senbei () rice crackers, written with the same characters as but quite different from
jianbing. Most Japanese
bing-type cooked wheat cakes, both sweet and savoury, are instead called
yaki (), as in
dorayaki,
taiyaki,
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bing File:Donkey sandwich, Hejian style (20160220143311).jpg|
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Guokui File:VM 5574 Lanzhou market Dongxiang ganmian da bing.jpg|
Dongxiang dabing in
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Guang bing in
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Taiwanese egg
bing File:Fennel pie at Huatian Eryouju, Maliandao (20220214134542).jpg|
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