1,000-Year-Old Ultra-Crispy Chinese ‘Naan’ | Chinese Flatbread | A Gan Guo Kui

Guo kui an ultra-crispy Chinese ‘naan’ origins is said to date back to 1,000 years ago. Popular Chinese crepe-like street snack. This crispy flatbread that’s cooked sans oil over charcoal in a clay oven. Please SUBSCRIBE to FOODEIGH for more videos. Created during the Tang Dynasty, when a starving labourer tasked to build the Qianling Mausoleum decided to quell his hunger by pouring a flour-and-water mixture into his tall traditional headpiece (which has a name that sounds like ‘guo kui’), and cooking the mix over a wood fire for a meal. It didn’t start out as the most hygienic snack for sure, but it made for a tasty treat during hard times and eventually became popular among labourers, even making it into the Chinese military as an army provision. The humble guo kui has since been elevated by the Chinese, who tweaked the recipe by adding their own preferred sweet or savoury fillings. #chinesenaan #chineseflatbread #guokui