Mutton Griddle Flatbread (Yangrou Kangmo)

Mutton griddle flatbread uses a paper-thin wheat cake folded around seasoned minced mutton, slowly griddled in mutton fat on a flat iron plate until the bread turns golden and chewy and the meat is fragrant.

It is one of Kaifeng's signature Hui Muslim snacks, common in the city's night markets and Hui neighborhoods, a distinctive griddled flatbread of the local food scene.

Eaten hot and fresh off the griddle, crisp outside and pliant within, with the aroma of mutton and rendered fat soaking through the bread—a favorite late-night bite at Kaifeng's markets.

It is defined by the thin bread wrapped around minced mutton and griddled in mutton fat, giving its singular toasty fragrance.