Bing (bread)
Bing is a Chinese term used to describe wheat flour based Chinese foods with a flattened or disk-like shape, similar to the French concept of a Galette. 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.
The term is also used to describe flatbreads or cakes of other cultures. The crêpe and the pizza, for instance, are referred to as keli bing (可麗餅) and bisa bing (比薩餅) respectively, based on the sound of their Western names, and the flour tortilla is known as Mexican thin bing (墨西哥薄餅) based on its country of origin.
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 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 though some are baked.
Some common types include:
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Cong you bing (蔥油餅; scallions and oil bing)
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Fa mian bing (發麵餅; yeast-risen bing)
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Laobing (烙餅; branded bing)
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Shaobing (燒餅; roasted bing)
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Jian bing (煎餅; fried egg pancake, similar to crepes), and a popular breakfast streetfood in China.
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Bó bǐng (薄饼; literally "thin pancakes") refers to a thin circular crepe-like wrapper or "skin" (薄餅皮) wrapping various fillings. This is sometimes called "Mandarin pancake" or "moo shoo pancake" (木须饼, mù xū bǐng) in American Chinese food contexts.
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Yuèbǐng (月餅; mooncakes) a type of bing usually produced and eaten at the mid-autumn festival
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Luóbo 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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