Hui Meat Pie · Shaped Like a Gate Stud
Mending Roubing (Gate-Stud Beef Pies)
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Legend says a Qing palace cook named it on the spot for Empress Dowager Cixi, likening its shape to the round studs on the palace's red gates.
A small, tall pan-fried pie, about 3 cm high and 5 cm across, packed with a juicy beef-and-scallion filling; it is eaten hot, often with vinegar, before the beef fat sets.
Why it's made this way: A traditional halal snack of Beijing, sold by the piece at snack shops such as the Mendingli chain.
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