Fuling Jiabing
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Fuling Jiabing (茯苓夹饼) is a traditional specialty snack food of Beijing. It is a pancake-like, thin white piece of snack made of flour sugar and Fuling sandwiching some contents made from nuts, honey and its like. The flour is usually mixed with Fuling which is a kind of Chinese medicine from Yunnan province. Different contents sandwiched give a variety of Fuling Jiabing. The pancakes can be carved into beautiful patterns, too. Image:Fuling Jiabing.jpg
It used to be light snack served to the royal family or governmental officials in the Qing Dynasty. Now it has become one of the tourist's must-have snacks of Beijing. Century-old traditional Daoxiangchun(稻香村) is the best known for its Fuling Jiabing.
