Bapi Guozi Pastries 八批果子

Bapi Guozi Pastries (八批果子) are a fried food from Liaocheng (聊城), a Shandong city shaped by the meeting of the Yellow River and the Grand Canal. Each piece is fried as eight strands joined at both ends, making an oval, and the name comes from that shape. China Tourism News named it among Liaocheng's local foods when the city launched a tourism food map in 2024.

How it is eaten

Liaocheng people like to stuff Bapi Guozi Pastries into a shaobing (烧饼), a baked flatbread: the soft bread against the crisp fried strands is the point of the pairing. Dazhong Daily sends visitors to Dongguan Street (东关街) and Yuxin Street (育新街) to try it.

Where it comes from

When the Liaocheng Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (聊城市文化和旅游局) launched a tourism food map for China Tourism Day in May 2024, China Tourism News named it among the city's local foods, with Linqing shixiang noodles (临清什香面), Gaotang tofu (高唐豆腐), guada (呱嗒), hollow glazed meatballs and mutton soup. A 'Liaocheng flavours' food route, one of the winter tourism routes Liaocheng launched in January 2025, takes visitors to Dongguan Street, Yuxin Street and the Iron Pagoda night market (铁塔夜市) to taste Shazhen guada (沙镇呱哒), Bapi Guozi Pastries and Gaotang old-style tofu.