Corgi Jianbing 可吉煎饼 Union Square
Chinese restaurant · Gramercy ·
Savory Chinese crepes with diverse fillings and soy milk
Savory Chinese crepes with diverse fillings and soy milk
"This food cart has served the breakfast and lunch crowd since opening in Long Island City in 2018, close to the Court Square station, specializing in the popular Chinese street food jianbing, savory rolled crepes of sorts, with fillings. The jianbing here may not be the best iteration of the dish in New York, nor was it the first time they arrived in the city in a mobile food cart. And yet they are their own thing. The fillings to choose from — pork floss, Spam, sweet corn, you tiao, cabbage, and beef sausage, or decidedly New York-y, untraditional adaptations like avocado, mozzarella, and bacon — mean there’s lots of opportunity to explore. Its Instagram account often shares location updates." - Eater Staff
"Sandwiched between glass towers, a butter-yellow and egg yolk–orange cart serves Long Island City’s breakfast and lunch crowd: Corgi Jianbing opened in 2018 near Court Square and has been humming at 4405 Hunter Street (at Crescent Street) for the past five years while expanding — including a planned spot outside 28-03 Jackson Avenue next to the JACX&CO food hall. I step up to choose a bing style — crispy or jing-style (softer) — both made from multigrain flour with egg, scallion, cilantro, Chinese pickles, sesame, peanuts, and a selectable number of eggs; fillings range from pork floss, Spam, sweet corn, youtiao, cabbage, and beef sausage to New York–style adaptations like avocado, mozzarella, and bacon, and there was even a limited-time pink dragonfruit jianbing. Owner William Zhang, who moved from Shanghai and hopes to someday open a brick-and-mortar and own a corgi, listens to customer feedback as he grows the business. The cart’s tagline is “delicious and auspicious,” it charges about $10 for the simpler jianbings (more than some Flushing options) and is open Tuesday through Sunday on Hunter Street from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Mondays at Jackson Avenue; hours still being finalized), with payment by cash, Venmo, or Zelle; while these jianbings may not be the city’s definitive iteration, they’re distinctive and approachable, especially for locals and students nearby." - Emma Orlow
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