jianbing

plural jianbings

1. A thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food.

   She spends her free time dancing, hiking the wilds of the Great Wall, biking through the lake district, and munching on jianbings in her hutong.

   2006 summer, Julia Herwood, Athenia Fischer, “Class Notes”, in Matt Jennings, editor, Middlebury Magazine, volume 80, number 3, Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College, →ISSN, →OCLC, 04 section, page 79, column 3

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   At last month’s Boao Forum for Asia, a business conference, organisers were keen to dish out jianbing, a savoury pancake that is a typical Chinese street food, made by a robotic arm in a booth, similar to the claws that collect stuffed toys in an arcade (the resulting snack was not as crispy as a human-made offering).

   2025 April 21, Amy Hawkins, “Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN