Posts tagged Beijing food
Video: Beijing Street Food Series: Kebabs 串
Jun 8th
Watch the same video on YouTube here.
This is the third and likely final post in a video series of people making my favorite common Beijing street dishes. I hope that this can provide an insight into Beijing food culture for people who don’t live here. The first post is here. The second one is here.
I believe these kebabs are made of chicken cartilage. I am a vegetarian, and kebabs made of bread and vegetables are pretty boring to watch, so I waited until I was with a friend ordering a meat kebab to shoot a kebab video. I realize kebabs on the street are not unique to China, but they are by far the most common street food in Beijing, especially at night.
Video: Beijing Street Food Series – Shandong Big Jianbing 山东大煎饼
Mar 25th
Watch the same video on YouTube here.
This is the second in a video series of people making my favorite common Beijing street dishes. I hope that this can provide an insight into Beijing food culture for people who don’t live here. The first one is here.
This is of Shandong Big Jianbing, which comes from Shandong Province. Shandong Big Jianbing is pretty rare in Beijing but its spinning wok that Beijing-style jianbing lacks makes it a better video candidate. The two videos above have the same content but are from different sites, one from YouTube and the other from Youku.
Video: Beijing Street Food Series – Stir-fried Bing 炒饼
Mar 19th
Watch the same video on YouTube here.
I’m starting a video series of people making my favorite common Beijing street dishes. I hope that this can provide an insight into Beijing food culture for people who don’t live here.
This video is of people at an outdoor restaurant near where I live making the common Beijing dish stir-fried bing, 炒饼 in Simplified Chinese. This restaurant makes it better than any place I know. It’s hard to translate “bing”, but it’s something like dough or batter that’s in a lot of simple Beijing dishes. In this video, it’s the last ingredient they add. Here they are making a double batch, one for me and one for another customer. The two videos above have the same content but are from different sites, one from YouTube and the other from Youku.
restaurant in this video
view of the popular street food area from where I sat while I ate
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