How to pronounce Menzi

Menzi is written 焖子 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mən˥˩ tsɨ/. In plain English letters that is MUN-dzuh, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Menzi?

Menzi is a snack of China. Where it comes from: Dalian (Liaoning). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are potato. It tastes savory.

Where Menzi comes from

Menzi is one of 108 signature dishes of China on this map. See all dishes from Liaoning.

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  Laobian dumplings are a famous snack of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning, served by a dumpling house founded in 1829.

• Goubangzi smoked chicken 沟帮子熏鸡 · Main dish · Goubangzi, Beizhen (Liaoning)

  Goubangzi smoked chicken comes from Goubangzi, a former town that is now a district of Beizhen in Liaoning, and dates from the Guangxu era of the Qing dynasty.

• Peking duck 北京烤鸭 · Main dish · Beijing

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• Xiaolongbao 小笼包 · Snack · Nanxiang, Shanghai

  Xiaolongbao are small soup dumplings steamed in the bamboo basket that gives them their name.

• Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 · Main dish · Chengdu, Sichuan

  Mapo tofu is Sichuan cooking in one bowl: soft tofu in a red, oily sauce of fermented broad-bean chilli paste with minced beef and plenty of Sichuan pepper, which leaves the mouth tingling.

• Lanzhou beef noodles 兰州牛肉面 · Noodles & pasta · Lanzhou, Gansu

  In Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu on the old Silk Road, a bowl of beef noodles is breakfast.

Food of China

Dishes like Menzi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Menzi:

• Bánh tôm Hồ Tây · Snack · Hanoi, Vietnam

  Bánh tôm Hồ Tây are crisp shrimp fritters from Hanoi's West Lake.

• Cornish pasty · Snack · Cornwall, United Kingdom

  The Cornish pasty is a half-moon of shortcrust pastry filled with diced beef, potato, swede and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, crimped along one side and baked.

• Patatera · Snack · Extremadura, Spain

  Patatera is a soft sausage from Extremadura made from the fat of Iberian pigs mixed with mashed potato, and coloured with paprika, which makes it look like chorizo from the outside.

• Rönttönen · Snack · Kainuu, Finland

  Rönttönen is a small open pie from Kainuu, the forested region of northeastern Finland.