From Kongming to Tianjin: Jian Bing
"It's colorful and has an interesting variety of textures, the soft outer layer crepe studded with toasty sesame seeds and little pungent bursts of scallion barely holding the crisp fried crackers and cabbage inside" From Kongming to Tianjin: Jian Bing
Jian Bing is a Chinese street food commonly eaten for breakfast, a kind of crepe cooked with egg and topped with ingredients and sauces before being folded in a way that is more sandwich-like than burrito-like. Is it a sandwich? A wrap? An abstract topological carbspace? An edible demonstration of the multidimensional universe, like a tastier version of Mrs. Whatsit’s and Mrs. Who’s tesseract…