mtgl wrote:In Chinese it's called 酱香酥饼 or jiang4 xiang1 su1 bing3, essentially a soy sauce pan cake. I believe on Chowbus it's called saucy pancake, and Fantuan calls it soy sauce shortbread.

Xiang La Bing or Jiang Xiang Bing did the trick to find those recipes.

酱香饼 (jiang xiang bing)

CHINESE STREET FOOD - Soy Flavor Pancakes "Jiang Xiang Bing" Recipe


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I asked Bing's AI search to tell me about jiang xiang bing. It came up with this, which is actually about a slightly different food, jian bing:

Jiang Xiang Bing (煎饼) is a traditional Chinese street food similar to crêpes. It is a type of bing generally eaten for breakfast and hailed as “one of China’s most popular street breakfasts”.

The main ingredients of jiang xiang bing are a batter of wheat and grain flour, eggs, and sauces. It is cooked quickly by spreading the batter on a large frying pan or a specialized flat hotplate. Jiang xiang bing can be topped with different fillings and sauces such as baocui (薄脆, thin and crispy fried cracker), ham, chopped or diced mustard pickles, scallions and coriander, chili sauce, or hoisin sauce depending on personal preference. It is often folded several times before serving.

Jianbing has seen international popularization in recent years and can be found in Western cities such as London, Dubai, New York City, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Hamilton, and Sydney.

Bing's a little confused about bing. Nevertheless, jian bing sounds pretty tasty too, and more like what Americans would consider pancakes.

As a counterpoint, I have had dishes in the food dungeon that were better than their counterparts at JMC. For instance their version of big plate chicken was noticeably superior to what I recall having at JMC. I have also had worse, particularly in the cabbage department. My superstition is that Saturday is a bad day to eat there.

As for a A Place in the Northeast, I find it merely OK after many visits. It gets by on being greasy fried dough wrapped around meat rather than being particularly great at anything. I found the saucy pie absolutely execrable, for what it's worth. Gummy dough with what tasted like a canned spicy bbq sauce.

On vacation thru December 16

Open for biz w/lip tingling ma la.

I find the atmosphere so drab and unwelcoming that it's actually charming in its own way. But maybe that's just because today I realized that BYOB is allowed (perhaps not formally but there were several tables where people brought beer and nobody seemed to care). There's a liquor store with a small cold beer selection steps away from the entrance to Richland Center.

Anyhow, on to the food where my second visit to Szechuan Bistro was light years ahead of the first. At least on two dishes.


The eggplant with garlic sauce was a top notch umami bomb with lip-tingling goodness. It might have been even better than the rendition at China Wok I had a couple of months ago. I need to get back there soon so I can figure it out.


If you order the house special boiled whole fish, it comes served in a pot on a hot plate type thing. We opted for just the house special boiled fish filet, which is plenty big for a few people and arrives piping hot. Another classic Szechuan dish (shui zhu yu) that is just fantastic. Now, I've never had a bad version of this one anywhere and my experience is somewhat limited, but man is this one good dish.


The Szechuan style noodle with chili sauce was a letdown. Not bad and plenty enjoyable, but way too light on the heat.

Don't let the food court setup fool you. Food is cooked to order and takes time. They weren't remotely busy and it took well over 20 minutes to get our food.

botd wrote:As for a A Place in the Northeast, I find it merely OK after many visits. It gets by on being greasy fried dough wrapped around meat rather than being particularly great at anything. I found the saucy pie absolutely execrable, for what it's worth. Gummy dough with what tasted like a canned spicy bbq sauce.

I've been let down by other items there too, but tried the spicy beef jianbing again last week and it was really tasty (and gigantic). I think if they're taking their time the textures work out right and it approximates street food swag (but for the aforementioned drab and unwelcoming atmo).

botd wrote:My superstition is that Saturday is a bad day to eat there.

As for a A Place in the Northeast, I find it merely OK after many visits. It gets by on being greasy fried dough wrapped around meat rather than being particularly great at anything. I found the saucy pie absolutely execrable, for what it's worth. Gummy dough with what tasted like a canned spicy bbq sauce.

I went to this hidden basement of delights and everything was terrible! Almost inedible! the perfect slippery taco/dumplings I got from A Place in the Northeast were now greasy strips of sludge around an unappealing "sausage" of pressed meat! And the delicious dry chili chicken at Szechuan Bistro was now laughably bad! Just a pyramid of red pepper and grease-hardened morsels that seemed old and fishy. Ugh.

Maybe I will return to my v successful dumpling run which saw me scarf down dozens of near-perfect potstickers at 4 Seasons!