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Crispy Bun in a Pancake

サクサクをフワフワで包む!士林夜市名物の炭水化物マトリョーシカ

Cooking difficulty: MediumNone
For Youth Xiaochi Carb Matryoshka

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.

Restaurants serving Crispy Bun in a Pancake

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • Ultra-thin crepe wrapper(Dabing)
  • Fried pastry(Xiaobing)
  • Peanut powder
  • Sugar
  • Lard

Instructions

  1. [Authentic Recipe]
  2. [Xiaobing (Crispy Pastry)] Roll dough made from lard and flour, deep-fry until crispy golden to make 'Xiaobing' (fried pastry).
  3. [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).
  4. [Wrapping] Spread Dabing, lay down peanut powder, sesame, and sugar (for sweet flavor) or minced pork and pepper salt (for savory).
  5. Place the whole crispy fried 'Xiaobing' in the center.
  6. Stall performance time: use a wooden mallet (or cleaver flat) to smash the hard Xiaobing into pieces with a loud 'Bang!'.
  7. 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

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