jianbing guozi

noun

A popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of pancakes made from mung bean flour, eggs, and youtiao, served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.

Meanings

nounjianbing guozi (plural jianbing guozi)
  1. A popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of pancakes made from mung bean flour, eggs, and youtiao, served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.

    Jianbing guozi, a thin pancake made of millet flour, is a popular night snack.

    2008 July 30, Iain Marlow, “Flee main roads for taste of Beijing”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 2
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    Commander Meng, I am most honoured to welcome you to our home. Please, would you consent to sitting over jianbing guozi with us?

    2005 June, Mags L. Halliday [pseudonym; Liz Halliday], “Book Two: The Dragon Flies”, in Warring States (Faction Paradox; 4), [Des Moines, Ia.]: Mad Norwegian Press, published August 2013, ASNI B00EZBS2A0, chapter 4

    Xiaojie: Oh, dad, look, what’s this? / Huang Renhao: Oh, this is jianbing guozi—Chinese pancake. / Xiaojie: What guozi? Does it have something to do with fruit? / Huang Renhao: No, it’s a type of pancake, made with egg, then rolled up with stuffing inside. Want to try it?

    2010, Xin Ping, Mark Rowswell, Travel in Chinese, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, →ISBN, page 54

    Mr. Song of the catering industry association has said that one of the snack’s two primary strains, the jianbing guozi, has a 600-year history in Tianjin.

    2018 May 29, Mike Ives, Tiffany May, “As a Chinese Street Snack Gets Trendy, Some Say Enough’s Enough”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2018

    Image shows a motivational poster in a jianbing guozi 煎饼馃子 (savoury pancake) shop. It reads ‘Those who conquer the world will be like this: In the beginning, they will they will try to find paradise in their dreams, but in the end, when they are unable to find it, they “will build it themselves. – Eat a jianbing guozi and go conquer the world!”’

    2022, Samuel Berlin, “Feeding the Future: The Politics of Aspiration in a Chinese Market Street”, in Séagh Kehoe, Gerda Wielander, editors, Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review, London: University of Westminster Press, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Food Cultures), page 47

Origin

  1. Chinese煎饼馃子
  2. Englishjianbing guozi

From Chinese 煎饼馃子 (jiānbǐng guǒzi).

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