Breakfast of champions

My favourite Shanghai breakfast, or lunch, or both - jian bing, nicknamed "foot-binding pancake". I'm going to miss this soooo much when I leave Shanghai.

Mung bean dough is spread like a crepe on a hot plate

An egg is cracked on top and spread out to form an omelette layer

Spring onions, coriander and little bits of pickle are sprinkled on top

Part of the pancake is flipped over and spread with some kind of delicious brown sauce and chilli sauce

Then a bit of fried dough is added, and sometimes lettuce

The whole thing is wrapped up like a burrito..

And popped in a plastic bag for you to take away. Yummo! And all for 50 New Zealand cents.

This lady was my favourite jian bing maker, just up the road from my office, but I've found a much nicer one near my metro station, Caoyang Road. Sorry lady! And especially sorry I made you heat up your grill so I could photograph you, when you had already pre-made a whole lot of jian bing and were taking a rest...

Finding and ordering every meal in Shanghai can be an exhausting and nerve-wracking process [eg see my Kapi-Mana News column here], so I'm loving the ease of buying street food like jian bing. Ooh and my other major food group is milk tea, but that's another post for another day...