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jianbing guozi

jianbing guozi noun: a popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of pancakes made from mung bean flour, eggs, and youtiao, served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.

jianbing guozi: a popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of...
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Noun

jianbing guozi (plural jianbing guozi)

  1. A popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of pancakes made from mung bean flour, eggs, and youtiao, served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.
    • Commander Meng, I am most honoured to welcome you to our home. Please, would you consent to sitting over jianbing guozi with us?2005 June, Mags L. Halliday [pseudonym; Liz Halliday], “Book Two: The Dragon Flies”, in Warring States (Faction Paradox; 4), [Des Moines, Ia.]: Mad Norwegian Press, published August 2013, ASNI...
    • Jianbing guozi, a thin pancake made of millet flour, is a popular night snack.2008 July 30, Iain Marlow, “Flee main roads for taste of Beijing”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 2

Examples of jianbing guozi in a sentence

  • Xiaojie: Oh, dad, look, what’s this? / Huang Renhao: Oh, this is jianbing guozi—Chinese pancake. / Xiaojie: What guozi?2010, Xin Ping, Mark Rowswell, Travel in Chinese, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, →ISBN, page 54:
  • Song of the catering industry association has said that one of the snack’s two primary strains, the jianbing guozi, has a 600-year history in Tianjin.2018 May 29, Mike Ives, Tiffany May, “As a Chinese Street Snack Gets Trendy, Some Say Enough’s Enough”, in The New York Times, New York...
  • Image shows a motivational poster in a jianbing guozi 煎饼馃子 (savoury pancake) shop.2022, Samuel Berlin, “Feeding the Future: The Politics of Aspiration in a Chinese Market Street”, in Séagh Kehoe, Gerda Wielander, editors...

Forms of jianbing guozi

pluraljianbing guozi

Origin of jianbing guozi

From Chinese 煎饼馃子 (jiānbǐng guǒzi).

Questions about jianbing guozi

What does jianbing guozi mean?
Jianbing guozi means a popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of pancakes made from mung bean flour, eggs, and youtiao, served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.
How do you use jianbing guozi in a sentence?
Xiaojie: Oh, dad, look, what’s this? / Huang Renhao: Oh, this is jianbing guozi—Chinese pancake. / Xiaojie: What guozi?
What part of speech is jianbing guozi?
Jianbing guozi is a noun.
What is the plural of jianbing guozi?
The plural of jianbing guozi is jianbing guozi.

Words near jianbing guozi in the dictionary

  1. Jian'an
  2. Jian'ou
  3. Jiana
  4. Jianan
  5. jianbing
  6. jianbing guozi
  7. jianbings
  8. Jiancaoping
  9. Jianchang
  10. Jiande
  11. Jiandu

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