How to pronounce Wenxi zhubing

Wenxi zhubing is written 闻喜煮饼 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /wən˧˥ ɕi˨˩ tʂu˨˩ piŋ˨˩/. In plain English letters that is wun-shee JOO-bing, 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 Wenxi zhubing?

Wenxi zhubing is a dessert of China. Where it comes from: Wenxi (Shanxi). People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Wenxi zhubing comes from

Wenxi zhubing is one of 108 signature dishes of China on this map. See all dishes from Shanxi.

• Daoxiaomian (knife-cut noodles) 刀削面 · Noodles & pasta · Shanxi

  Daoxiaomian, knife-cut noodles, are the everyday staple of central and northern Shanxi, where people simply call them xiaomian, shaved noodles.

• Pingyao beef 平遥牛肉 · Main dish · Pingyao (Shanxi)

  Pingyao beef is a cured and braised beef from Pingyao County in central Shanxi.

• Youmian kaolaolao 莜面栲栳栳 · Noodles & pasta · Northern Shanxi

  Youmian kaolaolao are small rolls of naked-oat dough steamed side by side in a bamboo steamer, and eaten with a dipping sauce.

• Peking duck 北京烤鸭 · Main dish · Beijing

  Roast duck was eaten in China's imperial kitchens long before it reached Beijing; it is often traced to Nanjing when that city was the Ming capital, and the court brought it north in the 15th century.

• 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.

Food of China

Dishes like Wenxi zhubing in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Wenxi zhubing:

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• Hodu-gwaja 호두과자 · Dessert · South Chungcheong, South Korea

  Hodu-gwaja, walnut cookies, are small walnut-shaped cakes baked in a mould, with a sweet red bean filling and an outer dough of wheat flour and skinned, pounded walnuts.

• Penghu brown sugar cake 黑糖糕 · Dessert · Penghu, Taiwan

  Brown sugar cake, oo-thn̂g-ké in Taiwanese, is a steamed cake from the Penghu islands, made from dark brown sugar, cassava starch, wheat flour and a raising agent.

• Castella カステラ · Dessert · Nagasaki, Japan

  Castella is a sponge cake based on cakes brought to Japan by Portuguese merchants in the 16th century, and it was made popular in Nagasaki, where it is still considered a speciality.