What does pancake fruit mean?

Pancake fruit refers to a famous snack in Tianjin. People in Tianjin have it for breakfast. It consists of mung bean pancake, egg and jelly (fried dough sticks) or crisp jelly, with batter, chopped green onion, fermented bean curd and Chili sauce (optional) as seasoning.

The ingredients used in authentic pancake fruit are only seasonings such as mung bean powder, fried dough sticks and chopped green onion. In other provinces except Tianjin, there are many raw materials such as ham, sausage and even shredded tofu and pork in pancakes.

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When Zhuge Liang began to assist Liu Bei, he was often killed by Cao Jun and fled. On one occasion, Zhuge Liang and his soldiers were trapped between Yishui and Suishui. As the cooker was lost, Zhuge Liang asked the soldiers to make pancakes on the gong.

Later, this method of making pancakes slowly passed down. Nowadays, in most parts of Shandong, people's staple food is pancakes. Although pancakes originated in Shandong, pancake fruit originated in Tianjin, and there are various legends about this kind of food in Tianjin.

By the Ming Dynasty, there were many businessmen from all over Tianjin, and some businessmen from Shandong brought pancakes, which promoted the production of Tianjin pancake fruit.

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