Guifaxiang 18th Street Mahua Drink Shop was once located in 18th Street, Dagu South Road, and people used to call it 18th Street Mahua Drink Shop. After the reconstruction of 18th Street, Guifaxiang Dagu South Road Store was built 200 meters from the original site.

Each Guifaxiang twist center is sandwiched with mixed stuffing crisp strips made of sesame seeds, peach kernels, melon seeds, green plums, osmanthus fragrans, green shredded pork and essence water. After the twist is shaped, put it in a peanut oil pot and fry it thoroughly with low fire, then put in rock sugar blocks and sprinkle with small ingredients such as green red silk and melon strips.

Guifaxiang 18th Street Twist was recognized as "Chinese Famous Snacks" at the first National Famous Snacks Commendation Conference, and was named as "Chinese Time-honored Brand" by China Ministry of Internal Trade 1996. Won the National Jinding Award and the Gold Award of Asia-Pacific Expo, and was recognized as a well-known trademark in China, a famous brand product in Tianjin and a famous trademark in Tianjin.

Historical allusion

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an alley named "Eighteen Streets" on the west side of Tianjin Weihe River and at the southern end of the bustling Xiaobailou. A man named Liu Laoba opened a small shop with the name of "Gui Faxiang" in this alley. This man has a unique skill in frying dough twists. Fried dough twists are real materials, using refined white flour and refined oil. His shop is always crowded with customers.

Later, his business grew bigger and bigger and he opened a shop. At first, they were all guests, but as time went on, people felt a little tired and annoyed, and business was not as good as before. Later, a shopkeeper in the shop went out to play once. When he got home, he was tired and hungry and asked for snacks. It happened that all the snacks were gone, only some snacks were left.

There was nothing else to eat, so the little shopkeeper had a brainwave and asked someone to mix the dim sum residue with the twist and fry it in a pot. As a result, the fried twist is different from the previous one, except that it is crispy and delicious.

According to this method, Liu Laoba studied the mixed crisp stuffing between the white strips and hemp strips of twist. Osmanthus fragrans, Fujian ginger, walnut kernel, peanut, sesame, green shredded pork, crystal sugar.

In order to make your own twist unique, improve the taste and taste, and prolong the storage time, the materials are becoming more and more refined, such as fine salted osmanthus processed from osmanthus in West Lake, crystal sugar made from sugarcane grown in Fu Ling, refined wheat flour and so on.

Today's "Guifaxiang" signboard was inscribed by the famous calligrapher Zhao Banzhi. In the end, the big twist with stuffing was formed, and the "Guifaxiang" twist became one of the "Tianjin Three Musts".