jianbing guozi

See also: jiānbǐng guǒzi

English

Etymology

From Chinese 煎饼馃子 (jiānbǐng guǒzi).

Noun

jianbing 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.
    • 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:
      Commander Meng, I am most honoured to welcome you to our home. Please, would you consent to sitting over jianbing guozi with us?
    • 2008 July 30, Iain Marlow, “Flee main roads for taste of Beijing”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 2:
      Jianbing guozi, a thin pancake made of millet flour, is a popular night snack.
    • 2010, Xin Ping, Mark Rowswell, Travel in Chinese, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, →ISBN, page 54:
      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?
    • 2018 May 29, Mike Ives, Tiffany May, “As a Chinese Street Snack Gets Trendy, Some Say Enough’s Enough”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2018:
      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.
    • 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:
      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!”’

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