Dish-Type Recipe Index

Breakfast, snacks, and street foods

These recipes are grouped as breakfast, snacks, and street foods because their ingredients, cooking method, or restaurant-menu role fit this dish family.

About breakfast, snacks, and street foods

Breakfast dishes, street snacks, pancakes, fried dough, fan tuan, roujiamo, and cafe snacks.

Recipes in this section: 12.

Breakfast, snacks, and street foods

Fresh Soy Milk

Chinese Breakfast · Drink · Makes about 4 cups · Soaking plus 30 minutes

Fresh Soy Milk recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Fried Dough / Youtiao

Chinese Breakfast · Fried dough · Makes 8 · 1 hour plus resting

Fried Dough / Youtiao recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Hong Kong Baked Pork Chop Rice

Hong Kong Cafe · Hong Kong cafe · Serves 2–3 · 1 hour

A Hong Kong baked pork chop rice recipe with fried rice, pork chop, tomato sauce, cheese, and cha chaan teng menu-literacy notes.

Hong Kong Macaroni Soup

Hong Kong Cafe · Hong Kong cafe · Serves 2 · 20 minutes

A Hong Kong macaroni soup recipe with ham, egg, broth, and cha chaan teng breakfast menu-literacy notes.

Hong Kong Milk Tea

Hong Kong Cafe · Hong Kong cafe · Makes 2 drinks · 15 minutes

A Hong Kong milk tea recipe with strong black tea, evaporated milk, sugar, and cha chaan teng menu-literacy notes.

Malaysian Iced Coffee or Tea

Malaysian Chinese Cafe · Drink · Serves 2 · 10 minutes plus chilling

Malaysian Iced Coffee or Tea recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Mango Tofu Dessert

Chinese Dessert / Hong Kong Cafe · Dessert · Serves 4 · 20 minutes plus chilling

Mango Tofu Dessert recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Peking Duck Pancakes at Home

Beijing / Northern Chinese · Duck service · Serves 3–4 · 45 minutes plus duck

Peking Duck Pancakes at Home recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Roujiamo

Shaanxi · Shaanxi · Serves 4 · 2 hours with store-bought flatbread

A roujiamo recipe with braised pork or beef stuffed into flatbread, with Shaanxi menu-literacy notes.

Scallion Pancakes

Northern · Northern Chinese · Makes 4 pancakes · 1 hour

A northern Chinese scallion pancake recipe with layered dough, scallions, oil, and menu-literacy notes.

Taiwanese Dan Bing

Taiwanese · Taiwanese · Makes 4 · 25 minutes

Taiwanese Dan Bing recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.

Taiwanese Fan Tuan

Taiwanese · Taiwanese · Makes 4 · 45 minutes

Taiwanese Fan Tuan recipe with ingredients, method, substitutions, and Chinese menu-literacy notes.