What ridiculous food price made your jaw drop as a tourist? While visiting Shanghai for the first time, I was just wandering the streets looking for some breakfast when I came across a street vendor selling jianbing. Jianbing (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: jiānbǐng; literally: 'fried pancake') is a traditional Chinese street food similar to crepes. It is a type of bing generally eaten for breakfast and hailed as "one of China's most popular street breakfasts."