Bengbu Breakfast and Night Market Food in Anhui, China

Channel: Allen Food Discovery Published: March 9, 2026 Duration: 29:52 Views: 527.5K

What this video shows

Allen, a food-focused host, spends a day eating through Bengbu, a city in Anhui Province, starting at a morning market and continuing along a popular food street known as the old prefectural committee street. He watches vendors fry gluten puffs, roll them into pancakes with eggs and vegetables, grill lamb skewers to stuff inside sesame flatbread, and pan-fry potstickers. Later he moves through market stalls selling marinated pork, honey crisp sweets, peanut brittle, buns and soup, and ends at a steamed bun shop with an unusually wide range of varieties.

At a glance

LocationBengbu City, Anhui Province, China
SettingCity morning market and a food street
What it coversBreakfast and market street food, vendors, and one live-streaming craftsman
Costs mentionedBuns at 5.5 yuan (about $0.75); Taihe Ganglu Shaobing at 3 yuan (about $0.40); a purchase counted as 60 (unit not stated in the video)
Time of dayMorning market through the day's food street visit

What stands out

Several stalls specialize in a single item and have done so for years — one pancake stall has operated about 20 years and still makes everything by hand. Regional identity shows up in the food: Bengbu potstickers are described as a representative northern Anhui breakfast, distinct from southern versions, and Taihe Ganglu Shaobing originated in Taihe County, Fuyang, before a Bengbu master brought it to this street. The market is not only food; one chef live-streams the making of metal clothes hangers, shipping orders nationwide. Shoppers also buy semi-finished items like marinated pork rolled in cloth and dried bluefish to steam or braise at home.

Video transcript

Hello, I'm Allen.\n\nToday I'm visiting Bengbu City in Anhui Province, China,\n\nto explore the local morning market and popular food street.\n\nThe food we're seeing now\n\nis called "Mianjinpao Juanbing" (???????), a super popular street food\n\nin Bengbu. This is deep-fried gluten puffs,\n\nwhich are called "Gangzi Youtiao" (????????) in Henan\n\n. After frying the gluten puffs, set them aside.\n\nNext, prepare a pancake, then roll in the gluten puffs and other ingredients.\n\nThe method for making gluten puffs is quite unique:\n\nuse two chopsticks

to lift the dough,\n\nthen drop it into the oil. Add eggs\n\n, bean sprouts, kelp strips, tofu strips, and other side dishes.\n\nIt's really delicious!\n\nThis shop makes sesame flatbread with lamb skewers,\n\nwhich is both satisfying and filling. The lamb skewers are grilled and first... that\n\n's amazing! Stuffing them into the flatbread is sure to be fragrant ?C\n\nthis is the classic way.\n\nNext, they start making the flatbread\n\n, stretching the dough and sprinkling it with sesame seeds before baking it in the oven.\n\nThe oven heat evenly cooks

the flatbread.\n\nThen, they take the flatbread out\n\nand roll the lamb skewers inside.\n\nThis way of eating is very popular in Bengbu.\n\nThe flatbread is crispy, and the aroma of the lamb skewers is simply wonderful.\n\nThis shop also sells potstickers.\n\nBengbu potstickers are one of the representative breakfasts of northern Anhui.\n\nUnlike the potstickers in the south, the potstickers here have pleats... The edges are clear, the skin is thin and elastic, and the filling is visible.\n\nAfter slightly frying, water is added and simmered for a

while\n\n, then some cooking oil is added\n\n. The pancakes are rotated to ensure even heating\n\n. The golden-brown skin paired with the delicious filling\n\nis simply delightful!\n\nThis is the old prefectural committee food street, and there is a pancake stall that is very popular with locals.\n\nThis stall has been around for about 20 years, and they have always insisted on making their pancakes by hand.\n\nThe mixed grain batter is evenly spread on the board.\n\nThe mixed grains are usually a mixture of wheat, sorghum, corn, buckwheat, and other

ingredients.\n\nThen, various seasonings and side dishes are added according to individual tastes. Finally, . Rolling the fruit into a dough ball is delicious.\n\nLet's go to the market. There's a stall selling pork rolls in a steamer cloth. The\n\nmarinated pork is cut into even, large pieces and then rolled in a steamer cloth\n\n. Since the pork is already marinated, you only need to steam it when you get home.\n\nAfter steaming, cut it into slices and dip it in sauce for an even more delicious taste.\n\nThis is another shop on the old prefectural

committee food street.\n\nWhat's this called? It's\n\ncalled Honey Crisp\n\n.\n\nHoney\n\nCrisp uses flour, brown sugar, maltose, sesame seeds, etc.\n\nAfter frying, it's coated with sugar.\n\nIs this sugar?\n\nYes,\nbrown sugar\n\nand maltose\n\n. After coating with sugar, it's placed in a basket to cool. Then it becomes crispy.\n\nThis shop also sells handmade peanut brittle.\n\nThe owner insists on making it purely by hand.\n\nThe main ingredients are peanuts and maltose.\n\nAfter cooling slightly, it can be cut into pieces.\n\nThe rich peanut aroma

combined with the sweetness of maltose\n\nmakes it crumbly, melts in your mouth, and doesn't stick to your teeth.\n\nThis is a very lively breakfast shop.\n\nIt mainly sells handmade buns and soup.\n\nIt 's\n\n5.5\nyuan.\n\nI'll take four red bean paste ones.\n\nHow many did I buy?\n\n60!\n\n60!\n\nThese are radish filling\n\nones.\n\nThese are soup.\n\nThey usually add eggs\n\nand use the heat of the soup to break up the eggs.\n\nCustomers can also bring their own food.\n\nThis is water chestnut, also called water caltrop.\n\nSouthern China is the main

production area. It has\n\na crisp and sweet taste, comparable to a snow pear.\n\nRich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and phosphorus , it\n\n's a nutritious and delicious food.\n\nThis is a steamed bun shop, making "tiemo" (????)\n\n. A little oil is added, the buns are stuck to the bottom of the pan,\n\na suitable amount of water is added, it's covered and steamed for a while before being\n\ntaken out.\n\nThis is a vegetarian steamed dumpling.\n\nA fish stall in the market selling\n\ndried bluefish, a specialty of Bengbu.\n\nThis

is a semi-finished product; you can steam or braise it at home.\n\nThis chef is live-streaming the making of metal clothes hangers.\n\nHe's showing the clothes to viewers. The hanger is super strong\n\nand easy to use\n\n, haha.\n\nOrder today\n\nand\n\nit will be shipped this afternoon, arriving at your door\n\ntomorrow, don't worry.\n\nLook at the sales volume\n\n, the positive reviews\n\n, the repurchase rate??\n\nevery order comes with shipping insurance\n\n. Orders placed today can be shipped\n\nthis afternoon.\n\nWelcome Lei Lei,\n\nwelcome my

friends,\n\nwelcome Lao Zhang!\n\nEveryone has clothes at home;\n\njust see which one lasts the longest.\n\nLook at the details\n\n, look at the details\n\n, look at the details\n\n! Talent!\n\nLeveraging the power of the internet, the craftsman's hangers are sold all over the country.\n\nOnly made one two-meter one,\n\ntwo meters!\n\nTomorrow I'll make my own.\n\nThis shop sells crispy pastries and chicken soup.\n\nThis is chicken blood! Yes,\n\nadd noodles to\n\nthe bowl. Or vermicelli, then add chicken wings or chicken blood and other

delicacies,\n\nthen add chicken soup\n\nand pair with crispy pancakes, the taste is very good.\n\nTaihe Ganglu Shaobing, which originated in Taihe County, Fuyang,\n\nwas brought to the food street of the prefectural committee by a master from Bengbu.\n\nIt is a genuine northern Anhui delicacy.\n\nI'll take two of these,\n\nis that yours?\n\nOne is fresh meat and one is braised pork\n\nwith preserved vegetables\n\n. Yes, you want\n\none fresh meat and one braised pork with preserved vegetables. Whose is that?\n\nI 'll take\n\ntwo too . Give me one.

It's\n\n3 yuan,\n\nright?\n\nPut it here.\n\nThen give me the meat\n\none. Take another one\n\nwith scallion oil.\n\nOne meat\n\none and one with scallion oil. I want one slightly\n\nburnt\n\n. Slightly burnt. Glutinous rice crust\n\nis made from round glutinous rice, and is a thin and crispy rice cake made by soaking/steaming/pressing/frying (or baking).\n\nWhen you bite into it, it's crispy and crunchy, not hard. It's full of rice aroma.\n\nFinally, let's look at a very popular local steamed bun shop.\n\nThe biggest feature of this shop is that there

are many kinds of steamed buns\n\n. From the style, flavor to the production method, all kinds of steamed buns are different. They're\n\nout of the oven!\n\nFriends, that's the end of today's program. Thank you for your company.\n\nIf you like my program, please click to subscribe. See you next time.

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