Suqian Impression Series 11: Why Suqian People Like Pancakes

Suqian people's diet, left me with two impressions, one is the Suqian people's street breakfast stalls are few and far between, and the other is that Suqian people like to eat pancakes. It is not surprising that there are few breakfast stalls on the streets of Suqian people and the patterns are too few. Breakfast is not a meal, not as a meal to deal with at home and abroad, for example, the old Beijingers and other big cities in the north of the old tube breakfast called "early morning", that is, only "point" a little; the old Shanghai people called "eat snacks! The old Shanghainese call it "eating dim sum", but only in the "heart" in the "point"; now the Wuhan people still eat breakfast called "morning", that is, "morning" only. Nowadays, Wuhan people still call breakfast "morning", that is, "morning" only "over" the meaning of a moment; Guangzhou people alienate the breakfast as "morning tea", but also to eat breakfast as a tea tasting and drinking tea as such a thing. Of course, this morning tea has been alienated by the Guangzhou people too much, has become a tasty meal to enjoy the mouth, which is how the alienation over, another story. Although breakfast is considered as long as the "point" a little, "heart" a little, "over" a little, "taste" a little, But living conditions a little better people, still attaches great importance to breakfast, in the past there is a folk saying called "eat well in the morning, eat full at noon, eat less at night", that is, breakfast should eat well. Of course, according to the current concept of health care, this statement is obviously backward, the correct statement seems to be: each meal should not be full, each meal should be eaten to eat less. According to this concept, breakfast naturally should be eaten well. But the vast rural areas of our country in the past, farmers can only struggle on the subsistence line, can eat two meals a day is good, where there is also what to eat breakfast. So farmers and most of the county townships or some small places of the public basically do not have the words and habits of eating breakfast, not to mention the street to eat breakfast this said. Suqian is a just-established soon not big and still relatively backward prefecture-level city, the living conditions and habits of the rural areas in the past is not a few days will disappear, so it is not surprising that there are fewer breakfast stalls on the street and the pattern is too small. Although with the accelerated pace of life in the city and the improvement of living conditions, Suqian also appeared on the streets of some breakfast stalls, but the pattern is not much, in addition to young people with the times has been using milk, bread, eggs and fruits to fill the breakfast, can see the public breakfast pattern is soy milk, bean curd brains, steamed dumplings, pancakes and fritters are used to serve as a start-up stage of the breakfast varieties. The many stalls and patterns of breakfast are the characteristics of big cities, big cities have fast pace of life and work, high standard of living, so there are many stalls and patterns of breakfast, for example, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other big cities, especially Wuhan is a very unique city. Wuhan people's daily life is from the street "over the morning" began, the streets and alleys are full of "over the morning" stalls, steamed dumplings kangcai roasted wheat bean skin hot dry noodles beef noodle patties egg wine paste rice wine chopped buns hair cake oil cake oil stick meat buns pie, here can not be A list, really fancy, what to have what, some to Wuhan on business trips to the north are surprised: Wuhan's early morning pattern really much, to which streets and alleys can be eaten. To Suqian, always remember, can only follow the customs. Suqian people like to eat pancakes I would like to study why Suqian people like to eat pancakes. I think it involves the food culture of a place, so I would like to study it. The impression that Suqian people like to eat pancakes is what I felt in front of vegetable farms and deli stalls everywhere in Suqian. I saw that vendors pulling electric carts to sell pancake skins abounded in front of vegetable farms, and no matter whether they were big mothers and grandfathers or middle-aged men and women, as long as they had the responsibility of going home and cooking for Suqian people, they often bought back two, three, or four pounds of them. I asked them if they often eat pancakes. They often answered that is often eaten, my impression is that in most of the Suqian citizens of the staple food table may be rice steamed buns pancakes are three staple food world. I asked them how to eat, they replied that how to eat anything, wrapped meat roll fried vegetables soaked in soybean milk millet porridge or directly so dry nibbles are delicious, like a northeasterner told me that, northeasterners like to eat potatoes how to do it all delicious. I asked them why they like to eat, they often laugh instead of answer. An old woman told me that pancakes are not only delicious but also good for health, which I found really insightful. I saw the most in Suqian hospitals in front of schools and universities in front of the downtown backstreets and alleys of the deli stalls in the most stalls are selling pancakes the most, walking and sitting and standing to eat pancakes of adults and children are also the most. Is now milk bread modern miscellaneous points can be bought everywhere, in the size of tourist attractions parks and leisure places to take pancakes as dry food rolled with a large onion and garlic right and hunger of Suqian people also have some. So, I have a deep impression: Suqian people like to eat pancakes. I feel the Suqian people like to eat pancakes, I would like to speculate on why the Suqian people like to eat pancakes, the motive is to estimate the food culture of the Suqian people. All over the country the staple food cake food so much, I know can be cited a lot, such as Huangqiao biscuits Huangshi Hong Kong cake Beijing pancakes Anhui kangcai Yongjia wheat pancakes India came from the Philistine cake, there are pies, soft pancakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, sesame alkali cakes, why do the people of Suqian only love to eat pancakes? In addition, Suqian is not the old home of the pancake, the old home of the pancake is Suqian north of Linyi, Shandong Province. Jinan, Qingdao, Weifang, Yantai and Tai'an are all part of Shandong Province and surrounded by Linyi, but they are not as popular as Suqian in the provinces. Why Suqian people instead so favored Linyi pancakes it, I think this more or less reflects a little Suqian people's food culture. Linyi, Shandong Province, why a pancake? I think this has to do with the special agricultural production conditions in Linyi. My view is that farmers around the country homemade processed from the role of local specialty foods are roughly divided into two categories. One is the festive snack food. Rural New Year's Eve, in the historical conditions at that time, only their own hands to make some of the native pastries over the New Year holidays, these are usually no conditions to eat fresh and different and easy to store the seasonal festival food, both for hospitality, but also used to enjoy a burst of their own hard work after a year of sweet life, such as Beijing's northern suburbs of the counties of the sticky rice cake, the south of the rice cake patties around the region of Jiangzhe Glutinous rice cake, eight-treasure congee, etc., which are found all over the country, belong to this category. One type of food is the dry food needed for daily labor. Peasants living in mountainous areas with remote and scattered lands needed to bring some dry food in order to go up and down the mountains early in the morning and return home late at night, and under the historical conditions at that time, they could only make their own dry food to satisfy their hunger. Most of these foods such as compressed cookies as chewy tendons can carry hunger is not easy to mold and deterioration, such as Wenzhou Yongjia wheat cakes, some places in Shandong choking bread. Linyi is around the mountains, Linyi pancakes naturally belong to the daily labor needs of dry food. The real Linyi pancakes I think just now Suqian people eat pancakes when the pancake skin, that is, without filling pancakes, and not now Suqian people eat a variety of meat pancakes egg pancakes pancakes vegetable pancakes, these pancakes are already modernized Linyi pancakes, Linyi people at that time did not have the conditions to eat today's stuffed pancakes, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Liberation War, the people of the Yimeng mountainous area to the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army to send the only possible! During the war of resistance and liberation, the people of Yimeng mountainous area could only send the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army this kind of Linyi pancake without filling. The original Linyi pancakes without filling I think there are eight characteristics, namely: a single raw material, simple cooking utensils, preparation work, frying process is simple to operate, the texture of crispy gluten, easy to store not easy to deteriorate, eat a variety of ways, often eat good health. Single raw material. The raw materials for making Linyi pancakes are only fine cornmeal, or maybe only wheat flour. Do not need to do like baklava pancakes pancake kangcake wheat pancake phyllo pastry pie soft cake lasagna cake onion cake alkali cake, neither onion ginger and garlic, do not want to bean paste jam cinnamon filling, and even oil and salt do not, than to do steamed bread to use the hair powder alkaline flour is also a single, it can be said that the world's most singular raw material pancake food on the number of pancakes in Linyi. Cookware is simple. Do Linyi pancakes cooking utensils is mainly a "fried" pancakes with about a centimeter thick flat round iron plate, plus a bamboo or wooden push rod for spreading pancakes and a pancake with a triangular flat sheet iron spatula, do not need any other special like a grill and steamer as a complex cooking utensils. These three cooking utensils were relatively easy to build by hand under the rural conditions of the time. One of the most important iron plate is not actually round is also irrelevant, this piece of iron plate does not have a flat bottom pot, concave bottom pot, convex bottom pots such as pot shape requirements, is the simplest of all iron pots and pans in the most simple kind of equipment, randomly take a piece of about a centimeter-thick iron plate can be relatively easy to build a success. I am afraid that there is no simpler cookware in the world than the one used for making Linyi pancakes! Preparation saves time. Doing anything the most time-consuming and most tedious thing is the preparation work, even the preparation of computer programs is the same, the preparation of any core computing programs or other information processing programs before, but also to do a lot of tedious initialization and data preparation work. It can be said that the preparation work for doing anything is the most annoying work, but the preparation work for making pancakes is exceptionally simple and is something that will never bother you. Starting from the raw cornmeal until the cornmeal slurry is poured off the iron plate and fried is the preparation for making pancakes, which are cornmeal slurry fried on a flat, hot iron plate, so there are only two things that go into all the preparations for making pancakes: mixing the cornmeal slurry and heating the iron plate. Mixing cornmeal slurry is very simple, even children can do, and does not take much effort, although the requirements of the right consistency, but a little thicker and thinner can be adjusted in a timely and convenient manner, will not affect the pancake fried into the work. Iron plate heating requirements are not high, in order to save more trouble now some people have been using electric heating, coal can be burned where coal heating, Yimeng mountainous area, more firewood, when the burning coal is difficult, so that year is mainly burning wood to make the iron plate heating. Burning wood flame is not easy to control, the temperature of the iron plate is not easy to stabilize, which will not affect the pancake frying work, because the pancake "fry" into the process is to rely on the iron plate to store heat (heat storage) release of the cornmeal slurry for "frying" the system, not the use of the iron plate. Instantaneous temperature heat transfer to the cornmeal slurry "fried" system, so the flame jumps and temperature fluctuations will not affect the quality of the pancake frying, adults and children who go to burn the fire can be, as long as the iron plate heated up to a certain temperature can be, the temperature a little higher and a little lower is not a big problem, and will not affect the frying of the pancakes into the work of the General Assembly. You will do the preparation of pancakes and do any other cake preparation work than one, you will know that the preparation of pancakes is really too much work. Compare it with the simple scallion pancake, in the same from the white flour until the raw scallion pancake pasted on the iron pot before the bed into the preparation work, including live white flour hair white flour kneading white flour pulling white flour, washing small onions and cutting small onions, mixing small onions touching onion and then rolled and pressed into a series of raw scallion pancake and so on a series of cumbersome preparatory work, not to mention the lasagna, the complexity of the preparatory process of the pie. You say, so compared, we know that the preparation of making pancakes is not the most trouble-free Pan-fried into the process of simple operation. Frying process is the process of frying raw cornmeal batter into pancakes on an iron plate. I am borrowing the term "firing process" from the construction materials cement and ceramics, and will call the process of frying cornmeal batter into pancakes on an iron plate "frying process". Obviously, the "frying process" is the key technology for making pancakes. Generally speaking, all cooked food production process, all things on the pan for the operation of the process is the key technology, of course, is also the most difficult to master the operation of the technology. However, the "frying process" is an exception. This key technology seems to be not simple, but it is not difficult to operate. My feeling is that the "pan-frying process" consists of three processes: "spreading the pancake", "frying the pancake", and "rising the pancake". If it is eaten cold, there is an additional process of hardening the pancake. The "pancake" process involves three sub-processes: "drying", "ripening", and "crisping". "Pancake" is to mix the raw cornmeal slurry thinly and evenly spread on the iron plate, "pancake" is through the iron plate on the cornmeal slurry heating so that the raw cornmeal slurry undergoes complex biochemical and physical changes into ripening of the water content of very little water in the crispy pancake, "pancake" is the process of "drying", "ripening", "crisp" three sub-processes. Pancakes" are cooked, crispy pancakes that are cooked and prepared for human consumption. Drying" is the physical preheating of the cornmeal to remove the moisture from the thin layer of cornmeal slurry, "ripening" is the continual heating of the raw cornmeal to transform it into a ripened pancake by complex biochemical changes, and "crisping" is the continual heating of the raw cornmeal to transform it into a ripened pancake with very little water. "Cooking" is to continue to heat the cooked pancakes to continue to undergo chemical and physical changes into crispy pancakes. It seems that the pancake "frying process" can be said to be not simple, but the operation is not complicated. One of the reasons is also very simple: pancakes all "frying process" process is through the thick iron plate "heat storage" release to complete the indirect heating conversion process, not through the coal-fired or wood-burning iron plate generated by the instantaneous temperature (i.e., instantaneous heat) on the cornmeal slurry for the direct Heating to complete the "frying" process. Because it is "heat storage and release to complete the indirect heating and frying process", so the "frying process" does not need to be very careful to master the so-called "fire" as in the "manufacturing process" of other foods. There is no need to master the so-called "fire" problem as in other food "making process", no need to master the "fire", things will be simple, how not careful will not be the cake "fried" bad. Just "start the pan", pay attention to the "heat", do not burn the pancake. Prevent burning is also very simple, because "cooked" after the pancakes continue to heat, pancake edge there is a "border temperature difference", "thermal expansion and contraction" principle will inevitably make the edge of the pancake automatic The principle of "heat expansion and cold contraction" will make the edge of the pancake automatically "warped" up, you will know that the "crispy" to the "fire", it should "start the pan", to ensure that it will not be "fried" too much. The "frying" will not be overdone. Therefore, the operation of the pancake frying process is very simple. Crispy texture. Table side dishes, there are boiled, steamed, cooked, stewed, fried, baked, baked, kang, fried, branded, fried, braised, back to the pot of the stove, the practice is different, nutritionally different, the texture is also different, some fragrant, some crispy, some fluffy, some soft, some crispy, some burnt, some lubricated, some sinewy. The texture of Linyi pancakes is crispy and sinewy. The crispy pancake has flavor when it is imported, and the sinewy pancake has a longer flavor when it is imported. In my opinion, Linyi pancakes crispy and sinewy is in the "iron plate" on the iron plate "heat storage" "fried" results. Usually say "fry" generally refers to "oil frying", the heat capacity of oil, oil is easy to absorb heat and release heat difficult, food is always wrapped in hot oil airtight, naturally, is subjected to "frying", the difficult scene is unimaginable, and it is not easy to imagine. It is unimaginable that people hate someone so much that they say, "I can't wait to throw you into the frying pan", which is what I mean. My feeling is that, as a result of "frying" food in oil, when it has reached the end of the frying process, only the skeleton remains, which is of course crispy, and at the same time, it also brings in flavor, so it is crispy. Food on a hot iron plate can also be fried, I have not heard of, this time I ran into the pancakes, think about it, this is indeed also a "fried". Think about it, the heat capacity of the iron plate is also large, but also easy to absorb heat release difficult, a thin layer of cornmeal, spread on a hot iron plate, not to be tormented is strange, usually said that the ants on the hot pot is the meaning of this. As the name suggests, the elegant name of the pancake is probably so, fried in oil called pancakes, fried on the iron plate directly called pancakes. But "frying" on the iron plate is different from "frying" in oil. Oil "fried" is "oily liquid fried", iron plate "fried" is "iron solid fried", oil violent, iron Oil is violent and iron is gentle. Oil frying is food by the hot oil airtight package, easy to "fry" to the head, must only be not smell also fragrant a bite on the broken, there is absolutely no bite, so the oil fried food is not glutenous food. Pan-fried pancakes on the iron plate is different, iron plate on the cornmeal is iron plate "heat storage" slowly fried, and the surface of the cornmeal and air space, cornmeal in the water is also empty, the gas is also put away, dense and solid, natural bite, natural tendon, so the texture of the Linyi pancakes is crispy and tendon. It is easy to preserve and not easy to deteriorate. This is the characteristics of our farm food ****. China's vast number of farmers have long lived in extreme poverty, a little food always try to stay can't eat, especially some of the food can be used for hospitality, but also want to be able to save for a long time. In the scientific and technological conditions and material conditions at that time, it is impossible to use modern biological or chemical methods of preserving food, therefore, invented a lot of primitive physical methods for food preservation. For example, the water seal isolation air mold method, Wuhan people soak mochi with water to prevent mold is this method; sun exposure to remove water preservation method, Wuhan people will be the soup yuan powder and bean threads day and night in the sun completely dehydrated for long-term preservation that is this method; hammered encrypted dehydration to remove the air to prevent bacterial reproduction preservation method, Fujian meat cake Wenzhou fish cake that is to use this method of preservation of fresh fish and meat, most places in the South of the rice cake patties are also preserved with this method. Although these methods are very primitive, but it is the safest and most environmentally friendly is also very effective food preservation method, I still appreciate these methods and hate chemical preservatives method. China's rural areas there is a traditional simple food preservation methods, I call "heavy salt preservation method", this method in the winter climate of the southern part of China's warm climate is very popular in the vast areas, such as Hubei's preserved fish and bacon Hunan's smoked fish and smoked meat in Nanjing salted duck Jinhua ham Wenzhou fish sauce meat, etc., this method is to increase the weight of the salt impregnation or smoking for a period of time, and then hanging sunlight day and night, so that fish and fish are not in the sun. And then day and night hanging sun, so that fish protein and fat and sodium hydroxide biochemical reaction occurs, generating a retain a certain fish composition and flavor of the cured food. I once helped my old partner to curing preserved fish and bacon, and found that not only do I sprinkle a lot of salt into the fish, but I also make an effort to keep the salt tightly adhered to the skin of the fish. This method is actually a biochemical preservation method, after heavy salt biochemical reaction not only lost the original flavor of the fish, but also generated a harmful carcinogenic substances, although most of the flavor into the local food, but young people eat less and less. I think Linyi pancake is a kind of food that is very easy to preserve and not easy to deteriorate, but it adopts the preservation method that is not easy to deteriorate, although it also has the imprints of the preservation methods mentioned above, but there is a difference, and I named it "thin slice of heated dehydrated and de-aerated decoction method". The preservation principle of Linyi pancake is not easy to deteriorate is: the cornmeal paste spread on the iron plate is very thin, easy to use the heating method to completely dehydrate and de-air "fry" dense, bacteria are not easy to reproduce, and thus achieve the purpose of preservation will not deteriorate. Linyi pancakes this special preservation method is not only a purely physical preservation method, and does not lose the original flavor of pancakes, so more and more people eat, there is a long-lasting strength. Various ways of eating. I observed that Linyi pancakes have three ways of eating: hot, warm and cold. "Hot to eat" is the pancakes out of the iron plate after the heat to eat, the past poverty directly by the heat of the dry pancakes probably also have, pancakes out of the iron plate after the vast majority should be left as dry food to eat, and now the streets of Suqian deli pancake stalls on the pancake meat pancakes egg pancakes pancakes vegetable pancakes are the most typical hot to eat pancakes method. "Warm food" is the cold pancakes broken into hot soybean milk hot millet porridge stirring temperature, and soybean milk millet porridge with food. "Cold eating" generally have two ways to eat, one is cold pancake skin roll (package) meat filling vegetable filling egg filling and then eat, general Suqian people eat pancakes at the main meal roll (package) they like to eat stir-fried vegetables is this way of eating, a cold pancake roll a raw onion or garlic leaves on the gnawing way of eating, the general farmers work in the field in the past, the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army fought in war! Now some people traveling as dry food to eat pancakes, is this way of eating. Various ways of eating have their own convenient place, the taste is also different, but all basically do not lose the Linyi pancakes crispy texture. Street stalls on the "hot to eat" a variety of meat-filled pancakes egg-filled pancakes vegetable-filled pancakes crispy texture is not reduced, but also added a variety of meat, egg and vegetable flavor, eat more beautiful and more distinctive; breakfast stalls on the hot soybean milk hot millet porridge soaked pancakes in the pancakes crispy texture flavor and add a warm smooth taste, easier to meet the customary tastes of the people while also meeting the needs of the people. People's customary taste at the same time to meet the people get up early in the morning soon need to "appetizing warm" dietary needs; the family sat around to eat pancakes rolled (packet) stir-fried vegetables, not only full of local flavor but also not due to the monotony of the pancake skin and more rich family atmosphere; out of the pancakes as dry food rolled on a large onion or garlic that really show Suqian people eat! Pancakes of the "bullish" and "style" mile! After some pondering, I do feel that "pancakes can be eaten any way, how to eat are tasty, how to eat are beautiful" words really are not false. Take the pancakes soaked in hot soy milk soaked in hot millet porridge and doughnut buns soaked in soy milk compared to the way to eat it, doughnut buns into the hot soy milk on the fluffy dissolved long ago no doughnut buns flavor, but the pancakes soaked into the hot soya bean milk hot millet porridge is still the golden body of the pancake flavor remains unchanged! Here I can not help but think of the famous Wenzhou seafood eating method and Sichuan Sichuan cuisine eating method. Wenzhou has many types of seafood, a variety of sea fish, sea shrimp, sea crabs, seaweed, sea snails, sea shells, but in order to maintain the original flavor of the seafood, no matter what seafood, practice eating method is relatively single, not steamed dry fried or boiled to eat raw, I admire the Suqian people on the basis of a pancake crust, there are actually so many ways to eat! Sichuan cuisine, despite the pattern of eating a variety of ways, they use the main ingredients auxiliary materials and spices but countless ah, Suqian people pancakes eat more, the main ingredient is only pancakes, auxiliary ingredients and spices but much less, in this sense, I still have to admire the Suqian people. Eating pancakes is good for your health. This is an old woman in Suqian told me, at first only think long knowledge, but do not understand. A cornmeal made of thin slices, how much nutrition, only heard of eating grains and cereals always sick, never heard of eating cornmeal can be beneficial to health; only heard of ginseng bird's nest is complementary to the body, never heard of eating cornmeal can be complementary to the body, women's opinion only. This time I know the pancake texture crispy gluten, understanding "often eat pancakes health" is like a bit of a doorway. Pancakes do not have "sinewy" characteristics, what do you mean by "pancakes sinewy"? My understanding is: pancakes have bite, not easy to bite off, not easy to chew, not easy to digest after eating into the stomach. It's the latter phrase that has more to it. Thin pancakes after the iron plate heat storage and dehydration to gas, dense, not "drop mouth digestion", eaten into the stomach, not the gastric juices immediately digestive problems, first of all to give the stomach inside the pancake pieces of rehydration and rehydration rubbing for a while, will be the pancake rubbed fluffy, gastric juices can slowly play a role in transforming pancakes into bio-energy! So just eat into the pancake, like eating Shanxi knife-shaved noodles, often stomach like an earthworm inside the stomach wriggling like, this is what people often say "can carry hunger", is the reason. Pancake tendon can carry hunger, that pancakes are not easy to digest, not easy to digest things, people can stand, visible human digestive ability must be very strong, people's digestive ability is very strong, indicating that the person can eat anything, all eat flavor, all eat effect, in the impact of many factors in the health of the dietary factors of course is ranked first, of course, the body will be great. Therefore, the old woman's saying that "eating pancakes is good for your health" is very reasonable. This reminds me of what a distant aunt of mine once told me: people who like to eat "glutinous food" live longer. "Sticky food" Wuhan people refer to sticky rice made of rice cakes, rice cakes, sticky rice cakes, generally not well digested, can eat rice cakes, rice cakes, rice cakes, of course, can eat anything, the body will naturally be great. "Eating pancakes is good for health" and "people who like to eat glutinous food live longer" are really similar, or heroes see the same thing. My distant aunt comes from a famous family, and has a high culture, her words have always sounded very authoritative to me, and I also have some experience, so I do not doubt that "people who like to eat glutinous food will live longer", and naturally, I also have no doubt that the old woman in Suqian said that "eating pancakes is good for health". So I don't doubt that "people who like glutinous food live longer". Above said Linyi without filling pancake eight characteristics, the first four characteristics can be summarized into one sentence, namely "simple practice": a single raw material, cooking utensils, simple, trouble-free preparation, frying process is simple to operate; the last four characteristics can also be summarized into one sentence, namely "eating multi-flavored ": the texture of crispy gluten, easy to preserve and not easy to deteriorate, eat a variety of ways, often eat healthy, which is the basic reason why Suqian people like to eat pancakes. There are cultural reasons, which involves the food culture of Suqian people. The same is the old home of pancakes Linyi's close neighbors, but also with Linyi, the same province, why Jinan people Qingdao people Tai'an people Weifang people on the pancake interest instead of Suqian people, which is obviously a food culture and even the regional culture of the problem. My idea is that, in another "Suqian impression series" article, I have said, God and the landlord is too much favor Suqian people, the best climate conditions and soil and water conditions are given to Suqian people, what grows what grows what can be eaten, is sitting at home nothing to do, there is also food, just to think about eating better only. Suqian people and traditionally see themselves as and Shandong people almost northern people, language is very close to eat northern corn wheat is also very close to the level of social development and living standards are similar. Suqian in such conditions, raised Suqian people are reluctant to go out, reluctant to break into the world, unwilling to leave their hometowns, even if the southern part of Jiangsu Province is a paradise, it is difficult to be willing to leave such a good place a step, so Suqian people become stuck in the quasi-northern home, hoping to use the most economical way to live the most leisurely life of the people, and then formed the Suqian people's concept of the region and the regional culture. In terms of diet, Linyi pancakes "simple", "eat a lot of flavor" features are close to the Suqian people's regional concepts, so they often eat Linyi pancakes, eat more, the taste is also good, the throat is also good, the stomach is also good, over time, these taste, Throat feeling, stomach feeling are good on the sublimation of a sense of beauty, beauty for a long time, the formation of habit, "habit becomes nature", habit has become a food culture. In turn, this food culture and strengthen the regional culture, so Suqian people more and more like to eat Linyi pancakes. Here might as well summarize the food culture and regional culture of Suqian people. The food culture of Suqian people is: using simple cooking methods, enjoying multi-flavored food. The regional culture of Suqian people is to enjoy a colorful life with a hassle-free way of working. This food culture and regional culture is both the characteristics of Suqian people, but also the advantages of Suqian people.