褡裢火烧 (dālián huǒshāo) · pan-fried pork pockets

Measure Word

一个褡裢火烧 gè

Meanings

1 pan-fried pork pockets

Made with

About the dish

京菜 Beijing · 小吃 Snack

Long, flat pockets of thin dough around minced pork and scallion, pan-fried until golden and crisp on both sides. Savoury and juicy, like a long pot sticker. A Beijing snack, unrelated to the city of Dalian.

Usually contains wheat

Characters

褡

dā

cloth pouch (with the next character)

裢

lián

cloth pouch (with the previous character)

to bake (with the previous character, a flatbread)

Examples

HSK 6

早上我们去胡同里的小店吃了几个褡裢火烧，配一碗小米粥。

Zǎoshang wǒmen qù hútòng lǐ de xiǎo diàn chī le jǐ ge dālián huǒshāo, pèi yì wǎn xiǎomǐzhōu.

In the morning we went to a little shop in the hutong and had a few pan-fried pork pockets with a bowl of millet porridge.

HSK 7-9

褡裢火烧是北京的一种小吃，外皮煎得金黄。

Dālián huǒshāo shì Běijīng de yì zhǒng xiǎochī, wàipí jiān de jīnhuáng.

Pan-fried pork pockets are a Beijing snack with a crust fried golden.

Tips

usage

褡裢 is an old-fashioned cloth bag, open in the middle and slung over the shoulder, which the folded snack resembles. 火烧 in northern food names is a kind of flatbread or bun, not something burned. The menu spelling "Dalian" has nothing to do with the city of 大连.