Tǔdòu Sī Juǎn Bǐng (土豆丝卷饼)
Shredded potato wrap; stir-fried potatoes with vinegar and chili in pancake.
Shredded potato wrap; stir-fried potatoes with vinegar and chili in pancake.
Muxu rou is named for its egg, scattered yellow like osmanthus blossom: a Shandong stir-fry of pork, wood ear and daylily that learned to be folded into a thin pancake.
Duck pancake; the thin wrapper for Peking duck.
A rolled wheat pancake, soft not crisp. The northern street version comes hot off a dawn griddle; its Fujian twin, the runbing, cooks cold for the no-fire Tomb-Sweeping day and gave its name.
Jingjiang rousi arrives at a Beijing table as two things: a platter of glossy sweet-bean-sauced pork and a stack of pale doupi tofu skins. The sandwich is the one the diner rolls.
Spring roll wrapper; thin, for wrapping.
The Beijing kaoya juan is the afterlife of a banquet: the lacquered duck a Ming court ate, now a hand parcel where a thin pancake, sweet sauce, scallion, and carved slices stand in for the ceremony.
Thin pancake wrapper; for Peking duck and wraps.