I wanted to eat all of it. You will, too.<\/p>\n
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Each thin crepe is spread on a griddle. An egg is cracked on top and spread over the surface. The jianbing at TT Crepes are made fresh to order. (Photo courtesy Lisa Wilk\/TasteCookSip.com)<\/p>\n
Feel free to spin around the market after you order, though. There are no crepes sitting idle. Yu makes every order fresh, six days a week. And though the paper boats in which they are served are less ambulatory, they do nothing to temper the steamy delight of this wonderful dish.<\/p>\n
When Jie Yu moved to New York City from her native Anjiang, a city in China\u2019s Hunan province, she was the proverbial immigrant, eyes wide with wonder. It was 1999.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to experience the different culture,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted to try everything. It was all fresh, new. Like I was a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
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TT Crepes owner Jie Yu shows a photo of herself in costume. For many years, Yu performed traditional Chinese opera at Splendid China near Walt Disney World. (Photo courtesy Lisa Wilk\/TasteCookSip.com)<\/p>\n
Before long, however, Yu discovered that amid absorbing everything America had to offer, there was joy in sharing her own culture, as well. And six months after her arrival, an ad in The World Journal, a Chinese-language daily here in the States, brought her to Orlando to do just that, and Yu joined the team at Splendid China, where for many years she performed, exposing countless visitors to the grace and beauty of Peking opera.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn beautiful costumes, we dance, do acrobatics, music, singing \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
She pulls out her phone and poses in her chef\u2019s hairnet, juxtaposed beside her tiny self in full costume \u2014 dramatic makeup, hand-embroidered garments. Both versions are charming, but her food would win you over regardless.<\/p>\n
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Changkui Tang shows off his wife’s delicious handiwork: a jianbing from TT Crepes. (Photo courtesy Lisa Wilk\/TasteCookSip.com)<\/p>\n
She won over her manager at Splendid China, for sure. She and the venue\u2019s former Director of Entertainment, Changkui Tang, have been married since 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is very talented,\u201d she tells me.<\/p>\n
Tang smiles from behind the counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe plays the bamboo flute and Chinese violin,\u201d she tells me, noting his regular gig at Epcot that comes just before the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, in fact, he will play right in the supermarket<\/a>, as students from local schools visit to practice alongside \u201cTeacher Tang.\u201d<\/p>\n TT Crepes (named for Yu\u2019s childhood nickname, \u201cmy grandmother called me TT and so then my whole family called me that when I was young,\u201d she explains is open six days a week, but Yu still moonlights as a server at Epcot\u2019s Nine Dragons restaurant for two of them. Plus she and her husband keep up the cultural performances elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do them at senior centers, universities and with students, too.\u201d<\/p>\n Alongside the star jianbing, customers have been enjoying other items: crispy-fried scallion pancakes, handmade wontons and savory noodles with ground pork, bean paste and peanuts. Beef and chicken wraps are popular, too. And the sesame flatbread? This one is worth a few rounds that could easily be multicultural. Gorgeous plain and fresh from the pot where oil crisps up the outside, leaving it steamy-fluffy within, one could drag it through curry, layer it with pate, stuff tunafish in the middle.<\/p>\n Seriously. It\u2019s that good. As are the intermittent seafood specials.<\/p>\n Yu\u2019s background, with parents from both Beijing and Hunan, have kept her culinary background diverse, she says.<\/p>\n \u201cAt first, all of our customers were Chinese but slowly people have been finding us.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s my goal, as it is each AAPI month, to help those numbers surge.<\/p>\n \u201cI really want people to try the real Chinese food and learn that culture can be shared through both the arts and food,\u201d Yu said.<\/p>\n If you go<\/p>\n TT Crepes: located inside Mei\u2019s Supermarket at 10681 E. Colonial Drive in Orlando; instagram.com\/ttcrepeshouse<\/a><\/p>\n Sweet Shiba Asian Street Food: Jianbing & more!<\/p>\n Ivan and Eve Jin came to the states from China\u2019s Northern Liaoning Province in 2017, where Jin found work in an array of Asian restaurants. But while Long Island in New York was their landing pad, Orlando \u2014 where they\u2019d visited some time earlier \u2014\u00a0was the goal. Since moving here in 2019, they\u2019ve been enjoying their time expanding the city\u2019s culinary repertoire with takes both traditional and creative. Their jianbing being one of them.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been eating this since I was young,\u201d he tells me. \u201cThere would be stands out in the morning on the street corner, but when you like it,\u201d he continues, a nice parallel to TT\u2019s Yu, \u201cyou eat it all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn the morning, though \u2014 that smell! It\u2019s fresh and hot and crispy. So good.\u201d<\/p>\n In general, he points out, it\u2019s just a savory crepe with egg with that crispy layer inside and both savory and sweet sauce, but beyond the usual vegetarian version, the Jins\u2019 Sweet Shiba Asian Street Food, they do others, one featuring Spam and another with potato salad.<\/p>\n \u201cThis one is not traditional, more our own thing, but people especially vegetarians like it because it\u2019s a filling and flavorful way to have it.<\/p>\n Other things they do: TikTok-trendy egg meat buns, lamb and chicken skewers \u201cthe authentic Chinese way,\u201d says Jin, and more. Find them on Sundays at the Lake Eola Farmers Market, Monday evenings at the Audubon Park Community Market<\/p>\n Keep track of their schedule at facebook.com\/sweetshibaasianstreetfood<\/a> and\/or instagram.com\/sweetshibaasianstreetfood.<\/a><\/p>\n Find me on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or Instagram\u00a0@amydroo<\/a>\u00a0or on the OSFoodie Instagram account\u00a0@orlando.foodie<\/a>. Email:\u00a0amthompson@orlandosentinel.com<\/a>, For more foodie fun, join the\u00a0Let\u2019s Eat, Orlando Facebook group<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t![\"Jianbing](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TOS-L-jianbing-ttcrepes-aapi-month-2026-06.jpg\")
Jianbing might be the star attraction at TT Crepes, but threre’s a larger menu of wraps and noods to be explored, and lifted, as well. (Photo courtesy Lisa Wilk\/TasteCookSip.com)<\/p>\n![\"Fresh](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TOS-L-jianbing-ttcrepes-aapi-month-2026-03.jpg\")
Fresh and fluffy sesame flatbread alongside Beijing-style noodles with soybean paste at TT Crepes in Orlando. (Amy Drew Thompson\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n![\"TT](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TOS-L-jianbing-ttcrepes-aapi-month-2026-04.jpg\")
TT Crepes owner Jie Yu makes everything here to order. That includes the wonderful sesame flatbread. It’s crispy, soft and wonderful. (Photo courtesy Lisa Wilk\/TasteCookSip.com)<\/p>\n