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Best Bing (bread) in Chicago
“Wheat flour flatbreads ranging from crêpe-thin to cake-thick, a shape-shifting category that stretches across cuisines.”
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Bing (Chinese: 餠) is a wheat flour-based Chinese bread with a flattened or disk-like shape. These foods may resemble the flatbreads, pancakes, pies and unleavened dough foods of non-Chinese cuisines. Many are similar to a roti or crêpe; others are more similar to cakes and cookies. The term is Chinese but may also refer to flatbreads or cakes of other cultures. The crêpe and the pizza, for instance, are referred to as keli bing (可麗餅) and pisa bing (披薩餅) respectively, based on the sound of their Latin names, and the flour tortilla is known as Mexican thin bing (墨西哥薄餅), based on its country of origin.
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Bing is the Chinese catch-all for wheat flour flatbreads that flatten into disk shapes—a category so broad it contains multitudes. You'll find versions that lean crêpe-thin, others thick as cake, some crisp like crackers. The name is flexible enough that the Chinese borrowed it to describe pizza and French crêpes phonetically, bending a Chinese word around foreign sounds.
Order it here when it has
- encompassing range of textures
- versatile across cuisines
- fundamental wheat bread form
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