Jilin Street Food

5 dishes in China

5 street foods from Jilin, China: Saqima, Dagao, Yanbian Lengmian — Korean-Chinese Cold Noodles, Li Liangui Xunrou Dabing and Suziye Bobo. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

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Street foods of Jilin

Snack · Deep-fried & set Saqima (Manchu Honey Pastry) The name is a transliteration of the Manchu word sacima, so the Chinese characters used to write it carry no meaning of their own. Thin strands of fried egg-and-flour dough are bound with hot honey-sugar syrup and pressed into a block, then cut into soft, chewy, faintly sweet squares.

Snack · Pounded Dagao (Pounded Rice Cake) It's made by literally pounding cooked rice with a wooden mallet — the rhythmic thumping is as much part of the dish's identity as the taste. Steamed glutinous rice (or millet) is pounded by hand until smooth and extremely sticky, then cut into pieces and coated in sweetened soybean powder or bean paste.

Street Snack · Korean-Chinese Cold Noodles Yanbian Lengmian (延边冷面) — Korean-Chinese Cold Noodles The broth is served ice-cold with actual ice cubes floating in it — even in the middle of a Jilin winter. Chewy buckwheat-and-starch noodles sit in a tangy, faintly sweet iced broth, topped with sliced beef, kimchi, cucumber, and half a boiled egg. It's a signature dish of Yanbian, Jilin's…

Snack Shop · Smoked Pork Li Liangui Xunrou Dabing (Smoked Pork in Flaky Flatbread) The flatbread dough is mixed with the meat's own cooking broth and oil, so the bread tastes of the smoked pork before you add any. Pork is stewed with herbs and spices, then smoked; it is sliced and tucked with scallion and sauce into a flatbread that is pan-fried golden and crisp outside, soft inside. 🌿 Manchu Sticky Cake · Summer Leaf Wrap Suziye Bobo (Perilla-Leaf Sticky Cakes) Its nickname is 'sticky mouse' (nian haozi), and a Northeast saying pairs it with winter's sticky bean buns: nian doubao in winter, sticky mice in… Soaked glutinous rice is ground to flour, pressed into rounds around red-bean paste, wrapped in fresh perilla leaves and steamed; the leaves give it a herbal scent.

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