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= Jian Bing Guo Zi = Jian Bing Guo Zi (simplified Chines: 煎饼果子; pinyin: jiānbǐngguǒzi) is a traditional snack of Tianjin, now typically is considered as breakfast.

Jian Bing Guo Zi is a combination of Mung bean pancake, egg, Guo Zi (Deep-Fried Dough Sticks) or Guo Bier (Deep-Fried Wonton Skin) with sauce made of fermented flour, chili sauce, chopped green Chinese onion, chopped coriander. All the ingredients can be chosen freely except the Mung bean pancake.

Jian Bing (pancake)
There are different recipes of Jian Bing in China. In Tianjin, the orthodox recipe of Jian Bing (especially for making Jian Bing Guo Zi) is Mung bean, green Chinese onion and dried small shrimps, which makes the finished product crisp and porous. People now generally prefer to add an egg or two eggs to increase Jian Bing's flexibility and flavor.

Sauces
There are several sauces that Tianjin people are used to add: saucy tofu, flour sauce or chili sauce. Diners can freely choose which sauces they want to add in accordance with their preference.

Stuffing
There are two major stuffing for making Jian Bing Guo Zi: Guo Zi and Guo Bier.

Guo Zi, also known as You Tiao, is a traditional Chinese snack, usually folded up as a stuffing of Jian Bing Guo Zi.

Guo Bier is a kind of fried bunsik, usually eaten as an ingredient, which is helpful with improving the crisp mouth-fell.

Shandong
Shandong is the source area of Jian Bing. In 1967, a contract which was written in Ming Wanli (1563-1620), was dug out from East Dongyanglou village, Zhuang town, Tai'an city, Shandong province. One article of this contract is "one griddle, 23 catties of Jian Bing"(鏊子一盘，煎饼二十三斤). It can thus be seen the modern making process of Jian Bing showed up by Wanli at the latest.

Hangzhou
Hangzhou is the source area of Guo Zi. Guo Zi, also know as You Tiao, is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough eaten in China and (by a variety of other names) in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines. According to folklore, Guo Zi was invented as a symbol of "fry the devil"(油炸鬼), the latest show-up age is Song Dynasty presumably.

AnHui
Guzhen county, Bengbuu City, AnHui province is the source area of the combination of Jian Bing and Guo Zi. Jian Bing Guo Zi was recorded in Guzhen local reports, slightly different with Tianjin version.

From dishes to snack
Jian Bing Guo Zi nowadays is a representative kind of street food, however, in its early days, it was one of Tianjin people's favor dishes, which was usually eaten with jasmine tea.

From vegetarian food to carnivorous food
In 1960s and 1970s in Chinese history, Jian Bing Guo Zi was usually made without egg because of the shortage of supplies. After the great reform and opening, now it is rather hard for people to find Jian Bing Guo Zi's vegetarian version.

Orthodox version
The orthodox version of Jian Bing Guo Zi is Tianjin version, using mung bean milk to make Jian Bing (pancake), only two options for stuffing: Guo Zi or Guo Bier, seasoners are saucy tofu, flour sauce or chili sauce.

Shandong version: vegetable pancake
Shandong vegetable pancake is similar to Tianjin Jian Bing Guo Zi except the stuffing. The stuffing of Shandong vegetable pancake is cooked bean sprouts, leek, Chinese cabbage, turnip strips.

Other versions
Other versions of Jian Bing Guo Zi have none standard: pancake can be made of flour or mung bean or black soya bean; stuffing can be lettuce, dried meat floss, Guo Zi, Guo Bier. The end product basically depends on customer's favor.