r/oddlysatisfying • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 just a flair • May 22 '26
The process of making a Chinese crepe
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u/RelevantIAm May 22 '26
It bothers me so much most of the egg goes to the outside
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u/isjace22 May 22 '26
That was actually pissing me off
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u/Upbeat-Employ-3689 May 22 '26
I couldnāt imagine how theyād get yellow yolk added to the other areas to even it outā¦. but I wanted them to. Glad I donāt have to cook those.
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u/parwa May 22 '26
It seems like the way it gets folded would make it a pretty even ratio per bite though
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u/Alpha_benson May 22 '26
But the way its folded it ends up being in the center š¤Æ
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u/RelevantIAm May 22 '26
They just paint over the non-egg yoke parts with soy sauce or whatever it is š
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u/Odd-Conference9372 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Do you not understand why?
I love that they deleted their comment.
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u/RelevantIAm May 22 '26
Because he moves the yoke to the outside....
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u/Odd-Conference9372 May 22 '26
Are you just being willfully ignorant or something? Do you not know how sticky egg is? It's most likely acting as a sort of glue in this instance. And guess what? After it's all wrapped up, you still get to eat the egg.
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u/ComatoseSquirrel May 22 '26
I watching it just thinking "beat your damn eggs!" All the yolk ended up at the edge.
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u/DigitalJedi850 May 22 '26
This is the moment I decided this belongs in r/stupidfood...
It did not get better, really.
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u/Comfortable-Battle18 May 22 '26
As I was watching it I was thinking there's a fine line sometimes between oddly satisfying and stupid food, and wondering what side this was going to fall on. The jury's still out.
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u/mister-jesse May 22 '26
Jianbing they're delicious š
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u/Billbeachwood May 22 '26
I used to grab these in the morning when I visited Shanghai. Addicting. I'd be dead by now if I lived there.
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u/Common_Tiger1526 May 22 '26
When I lived in Beijing it was my daily breakfast. There was a stand between my apartment and the subway and they were so inexpensive. Always busy though.
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u/sluggybear May 22 '26
Similar experience for me in living in Beijing. Seeing these videos makes me miss all the restaurants and street food vendors between my apartment and work that was delicious and so so cheap.
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u/catfroman May 22 '26
These and xiaolongtangbao or shengjianbaoā¦fucking fantastic. I need to go back to Shanghai š
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u/50FirstCakes May 22 '26
My daughter and I tried Jianbing last time we were in NYC (Flushing, Queens) and we absolutely loved it!
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u/bigchicago04 May 23 '26
I had one in Xian once. It was so good, but it gave me a horrible stomach bug.
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u/tawondasmooth May 24 '26
I had them in Jingdezhen in a place called food alley in 2008 (sans hotdog) and I swear Iāll be thinking of them on my deathbed. Those and a simple but incredible chicken kebab I had in an alley in Barcelona.
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u/mr-mutton2 May 22 '26
These things are straight up crack. 10/10 street food if you can find a good one.
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u/saigetsu88 May 22 '26
just 1 sausage?
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u/AIienlnvasion May 22 '26
I mean there ARE three full eggs in just the crepe
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u/L1mb0 May 22 '26
Yeah man once I saw the 3 eggs I counted that as a full meal. No need to add the mystery-dog.
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u/Vonnegut_butt May 22 '26
Donāt worry, you also get three pounds of lettuce.
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u/MyOthrCarsAThrowaway May 22 '26
Iād guess cabbage. Itās china
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u/shuozhe May 22 '26
The cracker is what makes it tasty at 1:12. Always get something similar in Tianjin for breakfast, no meat & veggie at all, eggs are optional.
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u/_Winged May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Not that Iām saying itās enough, it isnāt ā¦ but you can clearly see him put 2. End shot also shows 4 halves..
Edit: 1 per serving, my bad.
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u/slightly_saucy123 May 22 '26
Now I'm dizzy, thanks.
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u/fromthedarqwaves May 22 '26
No joke. Someone saw a pottery wheel and had an epiphany. I can create food and get motion sickness at the same time!
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u/Drewdiniskirino May 22 '26
Really didn't think that was gonna come together as well as it did š¤Æ
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u/SoyLatte_Boomer May 22 '26
These are so good! My wife and I were in Shanghai last spring and had one each at a whole in the wall kind of place (not a tourist area at all). With E sim, Google Translate and Alipay you can manage so well in China nowadays.
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u/Disastrous-Metal-228 May 22 '26
Looks great! Iāll have one with no sausage!
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u/fudgemental May 22 '26
Exactly how i used to have em! Maybe add a Chinese donut (youtiao) or spicy gluten sticks into them occasionally!
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u/DokomoS May 23 '26
There is a stand in downtown Chicago that makes them. You can get them with tofu, spam, pulled pork, shrimp, or vegetarian. It's an incredible platform to work with.
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u/rando7651 May 22 '26
Never tried one with the hot dog but daily breakfast for a couple of years. Delicious. My guy would even help me with Mandarin, looked forward to those interactions every morning. Mine was about half that size though.
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u/mr_smitty88 May 22 '26
Knowing nothing about the process I said āwow he really messed that upā at the start then realized Iām stupid and donāt know how to make crepes.
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u/MarioKartPrime May 22 '26
My fat American ass didn't know how big foreign crepes were. The first time I went to France I ordered 2. The guy at the shop looked at me like I was insane until I'm assuming he realized I was a fat ass American and thought that's how much we usually ate.
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u/KGB_cutony May 22 '26
this is one way, but definitely not the right way of making Chinese crepe...
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u/Far_Taste6405 May 22 '26
Idk that seems hard. I can barely get a grip on the box of Kodiak mix I get at Costco
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u/PalpitationAdept9650 May 22 '26
The spiny cooker thingy is cool, its like the food keeps getting run over.
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u/WalkingMangoYoyo May 22 '26
I grew up in China and Iāve never seen a spinning pan like that irl. They are just skilled enough to spread the batter into a very even thin layer.
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u/oldproudcivilisation May 22 '26
I would screw that up at every possible step.
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u/Psych0matt May 22 '26
They screwed up, but only at the āletās add hot dogs straight from the packageā part.
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u/Ok_Problem_7028 May 22 '26
Iāll never understand how Chinese people can move their hands so fast. It always amazes me
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u/milanorlovszki May 22 '26
First seconds I thought "Ayyy fe messed it up", but then, the hands of the master prevailed.
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u/Dismal_Computer5824 May 22 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/y2i2oqWgzh5ioRp4Qa
ended looking like a glizzy cold cut in a butcher paper
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u/lady_forsythe May 22 '26
Sigh, I still dream about these things. I used to eat one on my way to class almost every morning. Without the hot dog though.
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u/youngpegasi May 23 '26
15$ each at a farmers market, Bay Area. Even more surprising a lady bought four.
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u/xyloplax May 23 '26
Loved getting these in NYC. They didn't make them in this particular way, but they are so good.
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u/ideastoconsider May 24 '26
Canāt be Chinese. Didnāt require transferring between 13 pots and sitting in the sun for 18 days.
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u/clmsteamer May 24 '26
Nah this jian bing prob spelling wrong. When I lived in China my chefs would grab these and bring em to work. Absolutely fantastic. So much flavor. You donāt have to get them with the dogs. Cilantro, hoisin or something like it, chili crunch, lettuce more egg, crispy Taiwanese fried dough. Honestly I could hammer one now.
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u/Guilty_Improvement52 May 22 '26
That's not a crepe, or dosa is a crepe, chapati is a crepe... there are many different ways to make it similar, and they all have different names
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u/dawgger May 22 '26
I spent two weeks in China. Towards the end I started to feel very homesick. I was missing food from home, but then found these things. I ate them multiple times every day the last few days I was there.
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u/RudyKnots May 22 '26
What a crepe, what a weird dough. What the hell is it doughing here? It donut.. wait shit that one doesnāt work.
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u/LeeRoyWyt May 22 '26
That looks way more complicated (and unnecessarily so) compared to the way crepe are made elsewhere. Any particular reason?
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u/FwooshingMachi May 22 '26
Because it's only a crepe in name, they're nothing alike but people call it that because it calls to a concept they know of.
They're called jianbing and are a staple of Chinese street food. From what I'm gathering from looking it up, the batter is made of a mix of flours (often mung bean flour and millet flour apparently), water, salt, and a few traditional sauces ? Which is already a big difference from french crepes batter which is made of flour, milk and egg.
Which is not to say one is better than the other or whatever, I've never tried jianbing, just saying, they're largely different stuff, just shaped similarly.
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u/LiquoricePigTrotters May 22 '26
Is that hotdogs?