Zhīma Shāobing (芝麻烧饼)
Sesame shaobing; plain sesame bread, can be split and filled.
Sesame shaobing; plain sesame bread, can be split and filled.
Sesame paste shaobing; filled with sesame paste (zhīmajiàng).
Oil shaobing; made with more oil/fat, flakier layers.
The lamb-filled sesame-crusted shāobing of Hui Muslim northern China: a laminated baked flatbread split open and packed with cumin-and-chili minced lamb.
Baked sesame flatbread; layered, flaky bread coated with sesame seeds, baked in oven or on griddle. Can be stuffed or used to sandwich fi...
Shaobing with yóutiáo inside; popular combination.
A north-plain Chinese breakfast where the filling is a second bread: a warm sesame-crusted shāobing split and packed with a hollow, just-fried yóutiáo cruller, both crisp in different keys.
The Shandong sesame flatbread is engineered to crackle outside and stay hollow inside, a layered pocket built to hold sliced braised pork or cumin lamb without dissolving at the seam.
Shaobing with pork tenderloin; grilled or fried pork cutlet in shaobing.
Shaobing with egg; fried egg sandwiched in shaobing.
The meat goes into the dough raw and bakes inside it, so bread and filling cook into one body rather than meeting as layers. Weifang's Chenghuang Temple rou huoshao is its signature.
Beef shaobing; ground beef filling, common in Muslim areas.
Horseshoe shaobing; horseshoe-shaped sesame bread.
Huangqiao shāobing is a lard-rich, sesame-crusted baked cake from one Jiangsu town: short and flaky, filled sweet or savory, even with delta crab roe, its name carried by a wartime song of the 1940s.
Classic breakfast trio; soy milk, sesame bread, fried dough. The yóutiáo often placed inside the shaobing.