My favorite breakfast from the little shops here has to be a bacon danbing, a hash brown, and a nice big cup of OJ. Although from the Yonghe Doujiang places I’m also quite partial to an egg shaobing and a cup of cold soymilk.
I pretty much only go for the tie ban mian 鐵板麵, otherwise something simple like toast and coffee. Something about grease in the morning that doesn’t appeal to me.
Sadly, I can’t eat that stuff on my current diet, but I used to have a weekend treat of a danbing with cheese (the cheese really makes it) and a vegetarian burger (with cheese and egg) for breakfast. I love it.
I’ve also always been at a loss as to what to call danbing in English. i usually say omeletty, crepey things.
I always liked re-gou chaodan (scrambled eggs with hot dog slices). And grabbing one of the packaged egg sandwiches with plenty of rou-si (shredded dried meat) for good measure.
i’ve gotten to like fan-tuan. dan bing are good as long as they rolled the dough out themselves. a few xiao-long-bao with hot sauce all over hit the spot too
I plan on using this thread to order some things from the brekkie wtore that I have never ordered before… and as my reading of chinese characters isn’t the best…
First one is zhua1bing3 (or sometimes zhua1you2bing3) jia1 dan4. It’s some sort of onion cake-like object with an egg fried in it. My personal fave.
Number two on the list for me is a good old bei4gen4 dan4bing3, or bacon egg-cake/roll. I’m fairly picky about these those. I prefer them very dry, whereas many stores seem to serve them fairly greasy.
It took me a couple of weeks to find a breakfast place in my town that serves non-greasy danbing’s and that has the China Times so I can do the sudoku puzzles.