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Beijing shaobing is a layered, baked wheat flatbread with sesame paste and spice rolled inside and sesame seeds on top, eaten for breakfast or beside copper-pot lamb and barbecue; in China we have verified places to eat it in Beijing. Start with where to eat Shaobing (sesame flatbread) in Beijing.
Beijing shaobing is a layered, baked wheat flatbread with sesame paste and spice rolled inside and sesame seeds on top, eaten for breakfast or beside copper-pot lamb and barbecue.
Chinese legend says the General Ban Chao of the Han dynasty brought the roasted flatbread back from the Western Regions, where it was known as hubing. Beijing sorts its flatbreads into shaobing and huoshao, with sesame-paste, horseshoe and hanging-oven kinds, and the master Feng Huaishen's old Beijing shaobing technique is on a district-level heritage list. A well-made one breaks open into 18 layers. Shaobing rarely appears at a formal meal except with barbecue and hotpot, where it is part of the usual order.
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