Cōng Yóu Bǐng 蔥油餅 are a fantastic snack at any time of day. In Shanghai, they're a breakfast favourite. These crispy layered pancakes are made from unleavened dough and speckled through with green onions and sometimes little cubes of salt pork, then pan fried and served hot. Crisp and crunchy on the outside, with warm flaky dough in the middle, a little like a paratha, a lot like the best hot, salty snack you can taste for under 30 cents.
This is Number 5 in a series of posts about Shanghai's delicious street food. You can read about the others here:
Number 3 Liangpi - a spicy cold noodle dish
Number 4 Langzhou Lamian - hand-pulled noodles
Number 5 Cong You Bing - fried shallot pancakes
Number 6 Baozi - steamed buns, Shanghai style
Number 7 Jian Bing - the famous egg pancake
Number 14 Bao Mi Hua - exploding rice flowers
Number 16 Bing Tang Shan Zha - crystal sugar hawthorns
Number 21 Suzhou Shi Yue Bing - homestyle mooncakes
Number 22 Gui Hua Lian'ou - honeyed lotus root stuffed with sticky rice
Number 23 Cong You Ban Mian - scallion oil noodles
Number 25 Nuomi Cai Tou - fried clover pancakes
Number 26 Da Bing, Shao Bing - sesame breakfast pastries
Number 27 Ci Fan - sticky rice breakfast balls
Number 28 Gui Hua Gao - steamed osmanthus cake
Number 29 Zongzi - bamboo leaf wrapped sticky rice
Labels: food, Shanghai, street food
