ChineseCookingDemystified

Early Look: Breakfast Potato Pancake Rolls (土豆丝卷饼)

Added 2025-07-02 02:09:27 +0000 UTC

If there’s one thing that I – and most foreigners in China, it seems – love, it’s some kind of bing in the morning.

There’s a lot of great breakfasts that can be had in China, of course. Doesn’t matter the city, you’re usually not overly far away from some sort of breakfast snack stall. In urban China, breakfast is something that’s often grabbed on the go – whether it’s Guangdong’s Cheongfun rice noodle rolls, Sticky rice Fantuan in Shanghai, or various forms of Baozi and Mantou that can be found stretching from the very north of the country to the far south.

But it’s various sorts of bing that personally get my blood moving. What can I say, I’m just... a sucker for a burrito like object. And while we've covered the traveler favorite of Jianbing before, it's this guy – a pancake called juanbing, often stuffed with potato slivers, that's my current go-to breakfast.

And luckily, unlike Jianbing, it has the benefit of being rather practical in a home kitchen as well :)