Jianbing Guozi

Jianbing guozi is Tianjin's quintessential street breakfast: a thin crepe of mung-bean batter griddled with an egg, brushed with sauce, scattered with scallion, and rolled around a crisp fried cracker or dough stick.

Rooted in Tianjin's everyday breakfast culture, it follows strict local conventions of method and ingredients and is treated as part of the city's daily life.

Made and rolled to order and eaten warm, it is bought from morning street stalls and counts as the most homely meal a Tianjiner can have.

The fragrance of mung-bean batter, the tenderness of egg and the crunch of the cracker layered together set Tianjin's jianbing guozi apart from versions elsewhere.