Small Fish Pancake Wrap 小鱼煎饼
Small Fish Pancake Wrap is featured among the local specialties of Jiangsu.
Small Fish Pancake Wrap (小鱼煎饼) pairs fried small fish with the chewy pancakes of Ganyu (赣榆) in Lianyungang (连云港). The contrast between crisp fish and a pliable wrapper is central to the dish, which Yancheng’s official publicity account includes among Lianyungang breakfast foods.
Frying the fish and spreading the pancake
Writing in Shangguan News, Zhu Xinhua (祝新华) describes small fish being cleaned, coated with flour and fried in hot oil before they are rolled in a pancake. His description of Ganyu’s wheat-flour pancakes starts with a thick batter spread across a heated griddle. Gaps around the edge are filled in, then the pancake cooks for two or three minutes until its edges lift and it can be peeled away.
A filled breakfast wrap
Yancheng’s account describes freshly caught mixed small fish fried until crisp, accompanied by green pepper, peanuts and sanzi (馓子), thin fried dough strands. Zhu also recalls Ganyu people taking stacks of pancakes, small fried fish and scallions with them when travelling.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and fact-checked against them on 2026-09-27. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.
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