Pancake fruit comes from Tianjin, but pancakes first appeared in Shandong, probably brought to Tianjin by the earliest Shandong people, so smart Tianjin people created pancake fruit. It is said that the pancake fruit in Tianjin has also applied for intangible cultural heritage. It can be said that eating pancake fruit is simply a mouthful of culture.

The origin of pancake fruit:

According to legend, pancake fruit first evolved from Shandong pancakes. According to legend, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Muslim named Ma in Shandong Province, who was skilled in martial arts and chivalrous. Because he is good at using knives, he is nicknamed "Lao Dao". "Lao Dao" drew his sword to help an old man who was bullied by two strong men, fell into a life lawsuit and began to flee his hometown.

One day, Lao Dao fled to Tianjin, leaving only a small bag of white flour and two fried dough sticks he had just picked up. He was hungry and frantically thought about how to eat. At this time, the delicious Goubuli steamed stuffed bun on the roadside inspired him. Lao Dao thought of making a steamed stuffed bun with pancakes as the skin and fried dough sticks as the stuffing.

So he picked up firewood to make a fire, heated Bao Dao, poured batter on it, wrapped it in fried dough sticks after molding, and wolfed it down. Lao Dao felt it necessary to give this delicious food a nice name. "What name should I take?" "This delicious package in pancakes. It is better to call it' pancake wrap'! "

"Lao Dao" thought of Chinese onion pancakes in his hometown. Every time he eats, he puts sweet sauce and hot sauce on it. It's really delicious, he thought. "It would be better if he put sweet sauce and hot sauce on it."

Later, "Lao Dao" settled in Tianjin, selling "pancake rolls" with sweet sauce and hot sauce, so this kind of special food became popular in Tianjin Wharf where merchants from north and south gathered ... The "pancake wrap" in the mouth of "Lao Dao" with strong local accent gradually evolved into "pancake fruit" in the transformation of dialects.