With gourmet versions flourishing overseas, we go in search of the authentic jianbing. It grew up on the street, before heading to the big city and making a name for itself.

The breakfast favourite can be bought every morning from tiny carts or stalls at street corners across China for around 5 to 10 yuan (US$0.80-1.60) in the major cities.

Original jianbing from Monkey King Jianbing ($6.50) Thing is, if you weren’t looking for Monkey King Jianbing, chances are you’d never know it exists.

she asked, holding up a brittle sheet of fried wonton dough (jianbing guozi). "Or Chinese doughnut?" She pointed to a greasy fried dough stick ( tiao ), which looked like a twisted French cruller.

Tianjin’s trademark jianbing guozi pancake is made from a batter of green mungbean flour. Other regions use different grains in the batter, and Wenhua’s recipe combines five grains (but Wenhua won’t ...

The bite: Jianbing's smoked bacon, avocado and cheddar cheese bing ($11.95) features funky fermented bean paste, smoky bacon and smooth avocado on a crispy pancake.

HONG KONG — When is a pancake not a pancake? The unassuming jianbing, an eggy street-food snack from China that resembles a French crepe, is increasingly trendy abroad — a symbol of Beijing ...

Song, of the catering industry association, has said that one of the snack’s two primary strains, the jianbing guozi, has a 600-year history in Tianjin. People.cn, ...