Bing (bread)

Bing
TypeFlatbread or pancake
Place of originChina
Bing
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaningbiscuit
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinbǐng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbeng2
Southern Min
Hokkien POJpiáⁿ
Flat pancakes
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaningthin biscuit
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinbó bǐng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingbok6 beng2

Bing (Chinese: ) is a wheat flour-based Chinese bread with a flattened or disk-like shape.[1] These foods may resemble the flatbreads, pancakes, pies and unleavened dough foods of non-Chinese cuisines. Many of them are similar to the Indian roti, French crêpes, Salvadoran pupusa, or Mexican tortilla, while others are more similar to cakes and cookies.

The term is Chinese but may also refer to flatbreads or cakes of other cultures. The crêpe and the pizza, for instance, are referred to as keli bing (可麗餅) and pisa bing (披薩餅) respectively, based on the sound of their Latin names, and the flour tortilla is known as Mexican thin bing (墨西哥薄餅), based on its country of origin.

  1. ^ Diez, Patty (24 September 2020). "A Chewy and Crispy Korean Bing Bread Recipe That Chicago Diners Obsess Over". Eater. Retrieved 1 February 2024.