hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re diving back into our series on Bay Area restaurant hacks with a shot at the Chinese Jian Bing, inspired by the version found at Tian Jin dumplings here in Oakland, CA. For those not familiar, a Jian Bing is a Chinese street food classic that is colloquially referred to here in the states as a “Chinese Crepe,” which as you’ll come to find, is a pretty accurate description. It is made with a loose flour based crepe batter which is then coated in egg, and finally folded over a Chinese fried donut “youtiao,“ or as I’ve always called them, oil sticks (which is their direct translation).

For today’s version we’ll be going with some store bought youtiao which you can generally find in the freezer section of most Chinese markets, but we’ll certainly tackle this bit soon too. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday June 25th, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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