Rick Mundt's China

Chapter 36 Food on the Streets Sometimes when I would go out for walks, I would pick up something to eat that was sold on the streets. Maybe some of these things could be considered a Chinese fast food. Fast and cheap. A couple of things that I really liked were jidanbing and youbing (yobing). Jidan is the Chinese word for egg. Both of these items were kind of like pancakes. Youbing is flatbread and has green onions in it. It is made with dough, not batter. The vendors on the streets would make them while I waited. It would only take a few minutes. I also found a small shop that had pieces of chicken. They had a little spice in them and really good. At a certain time of the year you would find pineapple on a stick on the streets. They would cut up a piece of pineapple and put part of it on a stick, like a Popsicle. There were always lots of fruits for sale on the streets. Another thing I could buy at a certain time was cooked sweet potatoes. Men would have a cart on wheels with a barre