jianbing

From Mandarin 煎餅／煎饼 (jiānbǐng). Doublet of senbei.

jianbing (plural jianbing or jianbings)

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

   Hyponym: jianbing guozi

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2025 April 21, Amy Hawkins, “Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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).

• Jingbian