Bing is a Chinese term used to describe wheat flour based Chinese foods with a flattened or disk-like shape. These foods may resemble the flatbreads, pancakes, unleavened dough foods, of non-Chinese and western cuisines. Indeed, many of them are similar to the Indian roti, French crepes, or Mexican tortilla, while others are more similar to Western cakes and cookies.
Types
Bings are usually a casual food and generally eaten for lunch, however, they can also be incorporated into formal meals. Both Peking duck and moo shu pork are rolled up in thin wheat flour bao bing called with scallions and sweet bean sauce or hoisin sauce. Bing are commonly cooked on a skillet or griddle though 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; branded bing)
- Shaobing (燒餅; roasted bing)
- Jian bing (煎餅; fried egg pancake, similar to crepes), and a popular breakfast streetfood in Hong Kong.
- Báo bǐng (薄饼; literally "thin pancakes"), or mù xū bǐng (木须饼).
- Yuèbǐng (月餅; mooncakes) a type of bing usually produced and eaten at the mid-autumn festival
- Luo buo si bing (萝卜絲餅, shredded radish bing) is a type of panfried bing consisting of a wheat dough skin filled with shredded radish
Bings are also eaten in Korean culture, the most common being jian bing, which are consumed together with seafood.
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