At the table
Choose plain, salty or sweet, and ask whether it is filled. Break a warm piece to try the layers; soup and sandwich fillings are separate choices.
Contains wheat. The fat and fillings need checking for vegetarian, vegan or allergy requirements; a bread-like appearance does not establish them.
The plain bread has no chili. Sweet and salty fillings, added sandwich ingredients and the cooking fat vary between versions.
GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
Shapes and fillings include plain, sugar and sweet bean-paste versions.
Typical ingredients
In some versions
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Plain, salty or sweet
- Chili heat
- Texture
- Crisp layers
- How it’s made
- Enclose oil-flour paste in risen dough, fold and bake.
Shapes and fillings include plain, sugar and sweet bean-paste versions.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Inner Mongolia.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有呼和浩特焙子吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
One Bread, Many Shapes
Beizi is an everyday Hohhot bakery food with round, square and triangular forms. Risen wheat dough and a flour-and-oil paste are folded into layers before baking. Plain, salty, sugary and sweet bean-paste versions offer different choices. It can accompany sheep-offal soup or be split for fillings, so a plain bread and a filled sandwich may have very different ingredients.