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| Type | Flatbread orpancake | ||||||||||||||
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| Place of origin | China | ||||||||||||||
| Main ingredients | Wheat flour | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 餅 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 饼 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | biscuit | ||||||||||||||
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| Flat pancakes | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 薄餅 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 薄饼 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | thin biscuit | ||||||||||||||
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Bing (Chinese:餠) is awheat flour-basedChinese bread with a flattened or disk-like shape.[1] These foods may resemble theflatbreads,pancakes,pies and unleaveneddough foods of non-Chinese cuisines. Many of them are similar to the Indianroti, Frenchcrêpes, Salvadoranpupusa, or Mexicantortilla, while others are more similar to cakes and cookies.
The term isChinese but may also refer to flatbreads or cakes of other cultures. The crêpe and thepizza, for instance, are referred to askeli bing (可麗餅) andpisa bing (披薩餅) respectively, based on the sound of their Latin names, and theflour tortilla is known asMexican thin bing (墨西哥薄餅), based on its country of origin.
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Bing are usually a casual food and generally eaten for lunch, but they can also be incorporated into formal meals. BothPeking duck andmoo shu pork are rolled up in thin wheat flourbao bing with scallions andsweet bean sauce orhoisin sauce.Bing may also have a filling such as ground meat.Bing are commonly cooked on a skillet or griddle although some are baked.
Some common types include:
TheYuèbǐng (月餅;mooncakes), whilst sharing the name bing, is really a baked sweet pastry usually produced and eaten at themid-autumn festival. Some other dessert bings are "Wife" cake (老婆饼), which contains winter melon, and the sweetened version of 1000 layer cake (千层饼) which containstianmianjiang, sugar, andfive spice orcinnamon.
Bings are also eaten in other East Asian cultures, the most common being the KoreanJeon (Korean: 전;Hanja: 煎) which often contain seafood.
In Japan, the character 餅 usually refers tomochi (glutinous rice cakes), but is also used for some other foods includingsenbei (煎餅) rice crackers, written with the same characters as but quite different fromjianbing. Most Japanesebing-type cooked wheat cakes, both sweet and savoury, are instead calledyaki (焼き), as indorayaki,taiyaki,okonomiyaki, etc.
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