The vendors call it Brazilian barbecue: pork roasted on a vertical spit, chopped up with lettuce and seasoned with pepper and stuffed into a flatbread, for 4 rmb:
One of the stations advertised seafood wontons (海鲜馄饨 hăixiān húntún). They were making the wontons by hand with what looked like pure ground pork. I inquired what was 'seafood' about the wontons and they pointed out their condiments, which included seaweed and dried shrimp:
Not bad for 3 rmb, but I would ask for no hot pepper and no Sichuan pepper next time:
Everyone had dispersed by four when I walked by again. Perhaps the cops had come by.
That pork on the verticle spit looks just like Al Pastor on the Trompo! Mexican "shepherd style" style pork cooked on a verticle spit(trompo).
ReplyDeleteKirkK, that's funny! I think they call it Brazilian because Brazilian barbecue is well known here (we have lots of Brazilian barbecue restaurants) but Mexican food is hardly known at all. It's a pretty new street food here - I've only seen it within the last couple of months.
ReplyDeleteHave seen something similar called labelel 'Turkey' (as in Turkish rou jia mo) once in Beijing, but they were using chicken.