Jian Bing

In China, food is everywhere.  A big reason for that is street food.  People park themselves at busy street corners every day, making meals for anyone who wants a quick, cheap, and delicious meal.

I love Chinese street food.  Many of the things you can buy are very very greasy (i.e. tasty), but stop by one of the many street fruit vendors and you can balance out your diet just fine.

So far, my favorite street food is "jian bing," a wonderful combination of crepe-like batter, egg, green onion, pepper(?), some sort of chopped up meat(?), two different kinds of sauces that get spread on with a brush (no idea what the sauces are), and a weird crunchy wafer thing that gets all soggy when the crepe/egg part is folded around it.

Just in case you're lost (which you probably are) I took some video of a professional jian bing maker doing what he does best.....

Mmmmmmmmmmm.  Soooooooo good.

McDonalds breakfast?  No thanks.  I'll take my 3.5 kuai (55-cent) jian bing any day of the week (especially Saturdays because the guy from the video is right on the way to the CSI building).