hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re diving back into our series dedicated to Chinese breakfast foods with a shot at a very simple but also deceptively difficult breakfast snack known as a “shao bing.” For those not familiar, a Chinese “shao bing” (roughly translating to Chinese “biscuit”) is a popular flakey and yeasted snack item that can be served in many different forms. Often times, you will come across it stuffed with sesame paste, green onions, eggs, Chinese pork floss, or even just served simply on its own. Today we’ll be doing our version with a few of my favorite additions, which is a simple wok fried egg, green onions, and some black and white sesame seeds for a colorful finish. While at the surface this one may seem like a fairly simple one to take on, the most challenging task today will be about achieving those flakey layers to our biscuits, without the inclusion of butter, which you would more commonly come across in European baking. I’ve got some user friendly solutions for this, as well as some more challenging tricks that take a bit more elbow grease and effort that we’ll dive into as well. Hope you try it.

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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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