Description
A stall food enjoying texture contrast, where a fluffy crepe dough (Dabing) encloses a crispy deep-fried round pastry (Xiaobing) smashed with a wooden mallet.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Ultra-thin crepe wrapper(Dabing)
- Fried pastry(Xiaobing)
- Peanut powder
- Sugar
- Lard
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Xiaobing (Crispy Pastry)] Roll dough made from lard and flour, deep-fry until crispy golden to make 'Xiaobing' (fried pastry).
- [Dabing (Fluffy Wrapper)] Smear a loose flour-water batter onto a hot griddle to bake an ultra-thin, fluffy crepe-like wrapper 'Dabing' (similar to Runbing wrapper).
- [Wrapping] Spread Dabing, lay down peanut powder, sesame, and sugar (for sweet flavor) or minced pork and pepper salt (for savory).
- Place the whole crispy fried 'Xiaobing' in the center.
- Stall performance time: use a wooden mallet (or cleaver flat) to smash the hard Xiaobing into pieces with a loud 'Bang!'.
- Fold the Dabing (wrapper) tightly around the shattered Xiaobing and ingredients into a square and serve.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Peanut sweetness(if sweet version)
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Wrap a store-bought biscuit in a spring roll wrapper and smash
Pairing
Tapioca Milk Tea
Trivia
[Trend] A super specialty representing Shilin Night Market. As the name 'Large pancake wraps small pancake' implies, a carb-x-carb junk food. The live wooden mallet smashing performance is hugely popular with tourists. Sweet (Tian) or savory (Xian) available.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Break through the soft wrapper and experience the 'crunchy' shattered pastry exploding in your mouth, eating it like a snack while walking!
Allergen
Wheat, Peanuts, Sesame