Today, I went to the breakfast joint 2 blocks away. It's nothing fancy, but darn delicious. I wish I can eat everything on the menu, but I'm only capable of so much. So I ordered my two favorite Chinese breakfast items with a cup of sweetened soy milk.
This first item is egg pancake (dan bing). I think of it as a Chinese breakfast burrito. It's pretty simple -- fluffy scrambled eggs with scallions wrapped in a crepe-like pancake and drizzled with some soy sauce.
The second item is a twist on an old favorite of mine. It's a rice roll-up egg omelet. The familiar part is the rice roll-up (fan tuan) itself, which is just a deep-fried dough (you tiao) and some pickled radishes stuffed in white rice. The egg omelet part must be new. I've never seen anything like that. I love these rice roll-ups. The best one that I ever had was about the size of a softball and stuffed with deep-fried dough, shredded pork, pickled mustard leaves, half a tea egg, and soybean curd. It is one of those things that I often dream about. Ah, memories...
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