Daily Bread

Walk into any Xi’an market and you’ll see this bread in all shapes and sizes—and smell it, too. But it hardly feels fair to call this bread, since you don’t use an oven to bake it. Instead, we use a skillet, frying it like a pancake. The result is almost a flatbread, with a slightly fluffy center and a little extra crisp on the outside. You could have this by itself for a quick snack, but I also toss this into Hoolah Soup (this page) or onto the