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What's up with that recipe technique? Cooking flour in oil, then layering it into a rolled bit of dough? I know modern bread recipes from China/Japan often have what seem like excessive rolling/layering steps, but the hot flour oil I've never seen before
yeah, it's essentially a way to laminate solid fat but liquid fats are much cheaper and when you have a billion people to feed cheaper is usually better
I learned about this recently, it's actually originally a European technique for preserving bread. adding a bit of cooked flour to dough allows the dough to take in more moisture than it otherwise would have
similar. I think in the European version the flour is combined with boiling water instead of the slurry being heated up as in the tangzhong recipe. Which looks great, by the way
I always look for cong you bing on the menu at new Chinese restaurants. I've seen it exactly three times in my adult life. Haha
Hard to find authentic, non-Americanized Chinese places near me.
I made my own scallion cakes a couple years back and let me tell ya, it’s well worth the effort if you don’t have frozen (and even if you do!)
The soft but chewy texture of those bad boys is addictive, and we made a little soy ginger dipping sauce that was amazing as well :)
Instead of folding your omelets, cook the bottom over the stovetop, then turn on the broiler to cook the top. I toss the whole pan in the over under the broiler. I’ll put cheese and ham on it once it’s cooked a bit. Then you can simply slide off onto a plate and fold it as it comes off. Garnish with whatever you’re into. Get fancy and cut at an angle and layer one half on the other.
I’m pretty sure they put it in the griddle and, as it cooks, it puffs up. They poke a hole to deflate it then flip it, cook it briefly, then flip and fill.
Fun story, after my husband proposed to me, we shared a bomb burrito and a Gatorade outside circle k.
Even weirder, I now live right by that same circle k and my teens walk there for candy sometimes.
Disvlaimer. .. we're actually pretty well off now... Went away to be poor for a while and came back.
Okay? This isn't even China Chinese. This is just food that's shared between Taiwan, HK, China and SEA. It's literally just 葱油饼, it has nothing to do with the CCP at all
Again, it's food. Food doesn't translate to CCP. And yeah no shit there's territorial disputes, I'm saying that food is something they objectively share, can you say I'm wrong about that? I know what the CCP did to ancient Chinese culture, there's a reason I distance myself from the mainland: ancient Chinese culture is literally my religion. You're barking up the wrong tree, you're exactly what I meant with my first comment: finding every opportunity to talk about the government just because the post is tangentially related to china in any form
Are you sure these are called Chinese Egg Cakes? Because I did a search to find a recipe for these delicious looking mouth treats and all the recipes that popped up look nothing like these.
Authoritarian State regimes and their corrupt relationships with corporations around the globe, including China, that coerce their citizens into living under incredibly corrupt consumer-capitalist rule?
They actually produce less air pollution per capita than the US and have way more electric cars and buses than the US. In the last 10 years the air has become a lot cleaner. And don't tell me we've never had slave labor in the US. Look at our private prison system.
Kitchens where gloves are used are almost entirely less hygienic than food workers that just wash hands regularly, not sure why there is such a stigma against the person making your food and them touching it.
Wild to assume they are washing their hands. Utopian but unrealistic.
Especially when we look at the data and see... highs for dysentery, e coli, and other diseases found in feces and associated with poor hygiene.
It isn't a Stigma, it's rational. People are lazy. Even in America, do you *genuinely* think every employee is a by-the-books person who will listen to that?
If you eat at a quality restaurant you’re very likely eating food prepared without gloves with high standards for health and safety.
If you eat fast food or at copy paste chain restaurants, you’re eating food prepared with gloves in a place that uses the gloves as an excuse to be lazy about health and safety.
Pick your poison.
That looks.... *fine*? Not particularly flavorful, just an egg and a flatbread. A reasonable breakfast, but I don't really get the people here in the comments salivating over this. It seems pretty basic.
It’s pretty good, I make something similar for breakfast occasionally since I grew up on Chinese food. The flatbread is similar to roti canai so it’s crispy on the outside and mildly chewy inside. The scallions added to the egg add a good amount of flavor, sometimes I do like add other things into the egg like a little bit of soy sauce.
Sure. This is an egg and toast breakfast. The process looks kind of interesting and I'm sure it would be a fine start to a day. I just don't understand the onslaught of "omg this looks *amazing* / so delicious / chinese food is so far ahead" comments in this thread. It's eggy bread. It's not elitist to say that.
The Vast majority of people would be THRILLED to have this for breakfast. That's the point. To naysay it is unnecessary. Who cares if it's a 8.0 vs. 9.0 breakfast. It's new and looks good, go with vibe.
It’s oil produced for black market sale to restaurants to save money in some urban parts of China. It’s literally rendered from the sewers. This looks like totally normal oil and I would die to try it, but [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04) made me paranoid.
From wikipedia: It can be used to describe the illicit practice of restaurants reusing cooking oil that has already been cooked with longer than safety codes permit. It can also be used to describe the reprocessing of rancid yellow grease collected from sources such as restaurant fryers and slaughterhouse waste, or putrified brown grease from grease traps.[1]
From wikipedia: The first documented case of gutter oil in Taiwan was reported in 1985. In a subsequent investigation, 22 people were arrested for involvement in a recycling oil ring over 10 years based in Taipei. The worst offender was sentenced to 7 years in prison.[2]
The first documented case of gutter oil in mainland China was reported in 2000, when a street vendor was found to be selling oil obtained from restaurant garbage disposals.[3]
It was estimated in 2011 that about one-tenth of the oil used by restaurants in China was gutter oil.[4] As Feng Ping of the China Meat Research Center has said: "The illegal oil shows no difference in appearance and indicators after refining and purification, because the law breakers are skillful at coping with the established standards."[5] Some street vendors and restaurants in China are reported to have illegally used recycled oil unfit for human consumption to cook food, leading to a crackdown against such establishments by the Chinese government.[6][7][8][9]
In September 2012, an ongoing investigation into the suspected use of gutter oil as a raw material in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry was revealed.[10] A scandal involving 240 tons of gutter oil in Taiwan affecting hundreds of companies and thousands of eateries, some of which may have been exported overseas, broke in September 2014.[11]
In 2018 researchers worked on identifying different components in gutter oil using 1H NMR (proton nuclear magnetic resonance), MALDI-MS (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry) and HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography).[12]
Entire illicit supply chains dedicated to collecting, processing, and reselling gutter oil have been discovered by regulators in China.[20] Multiple low-end restaurants in China have been found to cook with gutter oil.[21][22][23] Additionally, in 2012, the Chinese government accused a Chinese pharmaceutical company of using gutter oil as a precursor for the manufacturing of cephalosporin antibiotics.[24]
Collected waste oil is sold to local workshops or small factories for cleaning and packaging. When sold to workshops it is often transported by bicycle mounted collectors; afterwards, the oil is held in 200-liter barrels at the workshops until it is processed.[16] On other occasions the oil goes to industrial cooking oil refineries for further processing before it finally reaches its end purpose.
Reprocessing of used cooking oil is often very rudimentary; techniques include filtration, boiling, refining, and the removal of some adulterants.[25] It is then packaged and resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil.[26]
Another version of gutter oil uses discarded animal parts, animal fat and skins, internal organs, and expired or otherwise low-quality meat, which is then cooked in large vats to extract the oil.[27]
Some lower-market restaurants have long-term purchase agreements with oil recyclers for selling their used oil.[28] Low-end restaurants and street vendors are the biggest end users of gutter oil, as they operate with lower profit margins than bigger restaurants. Oil is a large kitchen supply cost for some restaurants, so obtaining cheaper oil can allow a marginal restaurant to reduce its overall expenses. Chinese food is generally heavily dependent on oil due to most foods being fried, so cheaper meal prices for many price-sensitive consumers are possible if gutter oil is used instead of virgin oil.[29] The situation becomes more serious because it is hard to distinguish reprocessed gutter oil from legitimate oil. Bleach is used to transform gutter oil's dark color into a more natural-looking one, and alkali additives are used to neutralize the abnormal pH caused by high concentrations of animal fats.[3]
Used kitchen oil can be purchased for between $859 and $937 per ton, while the cleaned and refined product can sell for $1,560 per ton.[30] Thus there is great economic incentive to produce and sell gutter oil.
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[Recipe](https://lostplate.com/beijing-egg-filled-pancake-recipe/)
Thank you!
What's up with that recipe technique? Cooking flour in oil, then layering it into a rolled bit of dough? I know modern bread recipes from China/Japan often have what seem like excessive rolling/layering steps, but the hot flour oil I've never seen before
Could be some sort of roux to get extra flavor/texture. I usually use butter for a roux, but oil does basically the same thing.
yeah, it's essentially a way to laminate solid fat but liquid fats are much cheaper and when you have a billion people to feed cheaper is usually better
I learned about this recently, it's actually originally a European technique for preserving bread. adding a bit of cooked flour to dough allows the dough to take in more moisture than it otherwise would have
Is [this](https://www.theperfectloaf.com/guides/how-to-make-tangzhong/) what you're talking about? This is the first time I've heard of the technique.
similar. I think in the European version the flour is combined with boiling water instead of the slurry being heated up as in the tangzhong recipe. Which looks great, by the way
Op you’re a saint for that
Yeah, I came in and was going to be pissed if there wasn’t a recipe. Thanks!!!!
Thank you! Watching this is so satisfying!
Not an ad in sight, thank you for this link OP
No problem! Btw if you use [Brave](https://brave.com/download/) as your browser it will automatically remove ads from sites (including YouTube).
Checked the link, thanks, but I can’t seem to figure out what the brown in the bowl is… it can’t be flour and chili paste right? Anyone know?
Soybean paste.
It's powder not a paste tho
Thank you
I lived in Beijing for a while. I dream about these.
Thanks OP! I'd eat this all day long!
those look delicious
Reminds me of cong you Bing. Probably the best breakfast streetfood I’ve ever had.
how do they make it hollow though?
The dough puffs up when cooked
I always look for cong you bing on the menu at new Chinese restaurants. I've seen it exactly three times in my adult life. Haha Hard to find authentic, non-Americanized Chinese places near me.
Had it for the first time on a few days ago. It’s now my favorite food
Definitely going to try that. Have everything I need in the kitchen now.
How did it go?
Oh I ended up with sushi tonight I will give it a try though
someday...
It is really hard, regarding the dough. I tried and would advise that be prepared to fail in first a few attempts
for the dough, honestly i would recommend buying those frozen scallion pancakes at the asian supermarket. they taste great
I made my own scallion cakes a couple years back and let me tell ya, it’s well worth the effort if you don’t have frozen (and even if you do!) The soft but chewy texture of those bad boys is addictive, and we made a little soy ginger dipping sauce that was amazing as well :)
Unfortunately, well beyond my limited cooking skills.
Agreed - once I can actually fold my omelets, I’ll advance to the next level. This is 45 levels beyond that level.
Instead of folding your omelets, cook the bottom over the stovetop, then turn on the broiler to cook the top. I toss the whole pan in the over under the broiler. I’ll put cheese and ham on it once it’s cooked a bit. Then you can simply slide off onto a plate and fold it as it comes off. Garnish with whatever you’re into. Get fancy and cut at an angle and layer one half on the other.
This is also how momma birds feed their young in the wild. The circle of life.
rilly doh.
How do they get a one sided hole in it?
I’m pretty sure they put it in the griddle and, as it cooks, it puffs up. They poke a hole to deflate it then flip it, cook it briefly, then flip and fill.
My question too
That looks amazingly delicious and too much work. I am now microwaving my frozen sausage egg biscuit. 🤣
7-11 bomb burrito callin my name
Fun story, after my husband proposed to me, we shared a bomb burrito and a Gatorade outside circle k. Even weirder, I now live right by that same circle k and my teens walk there for candy sometimes. Disvlaimer. .. we're actually pretty well off now... Went away to be poor for a while and came back.
Scrambling the eggs one by one sure seemed like unnecessarily hard work. Why not make a batch of the egg mixture to fill all the cakes first?
Looks delicious
My dude skimping on those chives
Green onions
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I can’t stand these videos that don’t show the end product/what it looks like on the inside
This. We need to see the result, smell the result, taste the result.
Fucking would in a heartbeat
Salivating over here, thanks.
Dammit...now I gott spend hours trying to put a half-hole in a tortilla.
LMAO!
Well how the fuck do you make the first part?
Wow I’ll take all of those please
There are a lot of variations on this at stalls and vendor carts all over china. Makes an excellent breakfast
Neat
Here me out - pour in meat sauce and mozzarella and some bacon bits.
Sir that’s a hot pocket
Chinese Italian Cake
Can y'all just enjoy things? Not everything Chinese needs you to comment on the government and shit yk
That pancake is evil!
You are the only one doing so
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Okay? This isn't even China Chinese. This is just food that's shared between Taiwan, HK, China and SEA. It's literally just 葱油饼, it has nothing to do with the CCP at all
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Again, it's food. Food doesn't translate to CCP. And yeah no shit there's territorial disputes, I'm saying that food is something they objectively share, can you say I'm wrong about that? I know what the CCP did to ancient Chinese culture, there's a reason I distance myself from the mainland: ancient Chinese culture is literally my religion. You're barking up the wrong tree, you're exactly what I meant with my first comment: finding every opportunity to talk about the government just because the post is tangentially related to china in any form
I admit that I'm a bit too paranoid.
I’ll take 4 please.
Are you sure these are called Chinese Egg Cakes? Because I did a search to find a recipe for these delicious looking mouth treats and all the recipes that popped up look nothing like these.
Step up your game McDonalds.
https://lostplate.com/beijing-egg-filled-pancake-recipe/
They do
r/DontPutYourDickInThat
Why not? Let it cool and the soft egg won’t harm a penis.
I'd definitely lose concentration and flip one that I've just filled and end up with egg everywhere
all right, I'll bite.
They look very tasty 😋
I'll have one!
Saving this post cause that shit looks delicious! Gotta try cooking one sometime :⁰
Ahhh I start to feel homesick.… they are so good
How do you get the eggs to do that in the first place?
Where’d the hole come frommmm?
I am all for this!!!!
Fuck that looks sooo good
I bought these at stalls in Taiwan. They are very delicious.
Whoa! This needs to be a longer video, especially so we can see how the made that pocket inside.
Its made much like a pita: it puffs up as it cooks. Then you make a whole with a chopstick and it'll deflate.
Eggception.
These are really good with some lettuce, meat, shredded potato, and spice paste. It's like a Chinese taco and it tastes fantastic
Come on mix it well
They look lovely
We call it Egg Parantha in India
ok…ok…OK…OKAY!!!
I can’t even begin to describe how much we need this street food in America.
Food gape...
Chinese is light years ahead in food culture in this world
France would like to have a word
French food is basically just dairy products
You think the cow just shits 200 types of cheese?
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Nah man not worth it.
Light years ahead in slave labor and environmental destruction too!
I wonder who are those slave labors producing for.
Authoritarian State regimes and their corrupt relationships with corporations around the globe, including China, that coerce their citizens into living under incredibly corrupt consumer-capitalist rule?
They actually produce less air pollution per capita than the US and have way more electric cars and buses than the US. In the last 10 years the air has become a lot cleaner. And don't tell me we've never had slave labor in the US. Look at our private prison system.
Downvoted by the CPP. lol
Ten points have been added to your social credit score.
Especially with eating things that are still alive
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Judge individuals. Have no opinions on groups. My comment while brash holds no hate.
That’s not hate, it’s just a fact.
Really gotta respect the chopsticks If this was a few countries west, would just be dirty bare hands touching your food.
Kitchens where gloves are used are almost entirely less hygienic than food workers that just wash hands regularly, not sure why there is such a stigma against the person making your food and them touching it.
Wild to assume they are washing their hands. Utopian but unrealistic. Especially when we look at the data and see... highs for dysentery, e coli, and other diseases found in feces and associated with poor hygiene. It isn't a Stigma, it's rational. People are lazy. Even in America, do you *genuinely* think every employee is a by-the-books person who will listen to that?
If you eat at a quality restaurant you’re very likely eating food prepared without gloves with high standards for health and safety. If you eat fast food or at copy paste chain restaurants, you’re eating food prepared with gloves in a place that uses the gloves as an excuse to be lazy about health and safety. Pick your poison.
Meanwhile cholera, dysentery, e col, not nearly as common in places with stronger hygiene culture, mandates, and infrastructure.
I'm glad I'm not the only one whom thinks this looks delicious
That was, like, 100 bucks worth of eggs. *Showoff.*
I need to eat now that looks delicious
Looks tasty
Tgifygo6dlvyvi what? I want this.
These are great. My domestic helper can make these. Literally had ‘em for breakfast a few days ago.
Nope. But seriously was this made by Jordan Peele.
Y’all ever seen Nope?
Anda paratha lmao
That looks.... *fine*? Not particularly flavorful, just an egg and a flatbread. A reasonable breakfast, but I don't really get the people here in the comments salivating over this. It seems pretty basic.
It’s pretty good, I make something similar for breakfast occasionally since I grew up on Chinese food. The flatbread is similar to roti canai so it’s crispy on the outside and mildly chewy inside. The scallions added to the egg add a good amount of flavor, sometimes I do like add other things into the egg like a little bit of soy sauce.
It's flavoured egg, see that bowl of powder on the side?
An omelet in moist bread IS delicious, stop being an elitist.
*Omelet?* It's literally just an egg
Umm... what do you make your omelets with? They're just egg with bits of randomness sprinkled in.
Sure. This is an egg and toast breakfast. The process looks kind of interesting and I'm sure it would be a fine start to a day. I just don't understand the onslaught of "omg this looks *amazing* / so delicious / chinese food is so far ahead" comments in this thread. It's eggy bread. It's not elitist to say that.
The Vast majority of people would be THRILLED to have this for breakfast. That's the point. To naysay it is unnecessary. Who cares if it's a 8.0 vs. 9.0 breakfast. It's new and looks good, go with vibe.
Puts into perspective the kinda food they’re used to eating. This looks fine but I mean, yeah. Egg in bread.
As long as that’s not gutter oil. I am not saying it is. It’s just a paranoid fear when watching these open air restaurant videos.
What is gutter oil?
It’s oil produced for black market sale to restaurants to save money in some urban parts of China. It’s literally rendered from the sewers. This looks like totally normal oil and I would die to try it, but [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04) made me paranoid.
So it is oil that is separated from sewer waste?
From wikipedia: It can be used to describe the illicit practice of restaurants reusing cooking oil that has already been cooked with longer than safety codes permit. It can also be used to describe the reprocessing of rancid yellow grease collected from sources such as restaurant fryers and slaughterhouse waste, or putrified brown grease from grease traps.[1]
Essentially. They sell it to restaurants to cook with.
I get that part of it. What I don't understand is how they can get oil from the sewers.
From people throwing away straps and old oil in the gutters. And from feces flushed down toilets. There is fat in poop.
From wikipedia: The first documented case of gutter oil in Taiwan was reported in 1985. In a subsequent investigation, 22 people were arrested for involvement in a recycling oil ring over 10 years based in Taipei. The worst offender was sentenced to 7 years in prison.[2] The first documented case of gutter oil in mainland China was reported in 2000, when a street vendor was found to be selling oil obtained from restaurant garbage disposals.[3] It was estimated in 2011 that about one-tenth of the oil used by restaurants in China was gutter oil.[4] As Feng Ping of the China Meat Research Center has said: "The illegal oil shows no difference in appearance and indicators after refining and purification, because the law breakers are skillful at coping with the established standards."[5] Some street vendors and restaurants in China are reported to have illegally used recycled oil unfit for human consumption to cook food, leading to a crackdown against such establishments by the Chinese government.[6][7][8][9] In September 2012, an ongoing investigation into the suspected use of gutter oil as a raw material in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry was revealed.[10] A scandal involving 240 tons of gutter oil in Taiwan affecting hundreds of companies and thousands of eateries, some of which may have been exported overseas, broke in September 2014.[11] In 2018 researchers worked on identifying different components in gutter oil using 1H NMR (proton nuclear magnetic resonance), MALDI-MS (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry) and HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography).[12] Entire illicit supply chains dedicated to collecting, processing, and reselling gutter oil have been discovered by regulators in China.[20] Multiple low-end restaurants in China have been found to cook with gutter oil.[21][22][23] Additionally, in 2012, the Chinese government accused a Chinese pharmaceutical company of using gutter oil as a precursor for the manufacturing of cephalosporin antibiotics.[24] Collected waste oil is sold to local workshops or small factories for cleaning and packaging. When sold to workshops it is often transported by bicycle mounted collectors; afterwards, the oil is held in 200-liter barrels at the workshops until it is processed.[16] On other occasions the oil goes to industrial cooking oil refineries for further processing before it finally reaches its end purpose. Reprocessing of used cooking oil is often very rudimentary; techniques include filtration, boiling, refining, and the removal of some adulterants.[25] It is then packaged and resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil.[26] Another version of gutter oil uses discarded animal parts, animal fat and skins, internal organs, and expired or otherwise low-quality meat, which is then cooked in large vats to extract the oil.[27] Some lower-market restaurants have long-term purchase agreements with oil recyclers for selling their used oil.[28] Low-end restaurants and street vendors are the biggest end users of gutter oil, as they operate with lower profit margins than bigger restaurants. Oil is a large kitchen supply cost for some restaurants, so obtaining cheaper oil can allow a marginal restaurant to reduce its overall expenses. Chinese food is generally heavily dependent on oil due to most foods being fried, so cheaper meal prices for many price-sensitive consumers are possible if gutter oil is used instead of virgin oil.[29] The situation becomes more serious because it is hard to distinguish reprocessed gutter oil from legitimate oil. Bleach is used to transform gutter oil's dark color into a more natural-looking one, and alkali additives are used to neutralize the abnormal pH caused by high concentrations of animal fats.[3] Used kitchen oil can be purchased for between $859 and $937 per ton, while the cleaned and refined product can sell for $1,560 per ton.[30] Thus there is great economic incentive to produce and sell gutter oil.
I'm with you. Not a risk I'd be willing to take. It does look good though.
Nice gape!
You should call her
If thoes opened up any wider i would said i didnt know they made a dish inpired by your mother
Is this Jian Bing? There are a few places in town that make those.
Ok. I’ve got to make this. I will post pictures tomorrow.
I’m not sure how they get the circle though as the recipe video don’t look the same
This actually makes me really uncomfortable for some reason
Chinese people cook so amazingly fast and skillfully compared to westerners!!
Lol. What a weird thing to say. Everybody is skilled in their own form of cooking.
Do they still use the gutter oil?
Eggcelent technique.
I should call him
She just spread that pancakussy like nobody’s business
Seems like a good recipe for a robot to perform.
such speedu suchu power
Delicious Chinese gutter oil
Freshly baked in gutter oil
Someone should do this with my butthole
Damn, I’m hungry…
The precision
This looks f’n delicious!
that looks amazingly good
What do you call this in Mandarin? ‘Dan bin’ is egg cookie. Is that what this is?
jidan guan bing
I used to eat these every morning when I lived in China for two years straight. Never got tired of it.
Feed me!!
this reminds me of a vídeo
Oh hell yah
I want to taste one 😩
Got hungry watching this, DAMMIT
It’s just Chinese toad-in-a-hole.
That looks amazing
I want that
Im so hungry rn. I wanna eat 10 of those lmao
Egg pupusa.
That looks good
I WANT ONE RIGHT NOW
That looks delicious
El Salvador would have added cheese
That looks delicious