xianbings

Noun

xianbing (countable and uncountable, plural xianbing or xianbings)

1. A traditional kind of Chinese stuffed pancake.
   • As a Beijing worker commented, at best a hamburger is the equivalent of xianbing, a type of Chinese pancake with meat inside, which no one would treat as a daily meal.2001, Yunxiang Yan, “McDonald’s in Beijing: the localization of Americana”, in Daniel Miller, editor, The History and Regional Development of Consumption (Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social...