Name: Pork Juan Bing (酱爆肉丝菜卷饼)
Yield: Serves 2 or 3 as an appetizer
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon sugar; 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour; 2 green onions, trimmed and sliced on the diagonal; ¼ teaspoon sugar, divided; 1 garlic clove, peeled and sliced; 1 green onion, trimmed and cut into 1-inch (2.5 cm) segments; ⅜ teaspoon salt, divided; 1¼ teaspoons white vinegar, divided; ½ teaspoon toasted sesame oil; 1½ tablespoons sweet flour sauce; ½ yellow potato, roughly 3 ounces (85 g), peeled and cut into thin matchsticks; Sweet flour sauce; 3 teaspoons Shaoxing cooking wine, divided; 1 dried red chile pepper, cut into ¼-inch (6 mm) segments; 1¾ ounces (50 g) dried kelp slivers, hydrated in warm water; ½ teaspoon cornstarch; ½ teaspoon soy sauce; 10 ounces (280 g) pork tenderloin, cut into thin slivers; 1-inch (2.5 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped; ⅓ cup plus 4 teaspoons (100 ml) cold water; 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided; ⅓ cup plus 4 teaspoons (100 ml) hot water; ½ teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns

Preparation info

Serves
2 or 3
as an appetizer

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Xi'an Famous Foods

By Jason Wang

Published 2020

About

This basic snack has many variations—some people fill it with mostly meat, some people focus on veggies—but the premise is always the same: a thin, Chinese crepe/tortilla/bing, filled with anything your heart desires and eaten with gusto with your hands.

The ingredients in this dish are fairly basic, meaning that even in the middle of nowhere, we could still scrounge it up every once in a while. The recipe’s complexity comes in the prep work, however, and the timing. An exper