There is no fruit in "pancake fruit". Why do you call it that?

Pancake fruit is a snack in Tianjin, made of mung bean powder, and then spread on a big steamed stuffed bun, wrapped in fried dough sticks or crispy skin. There are also differences between the two.

Pancake fruit is one of the necessities of breakfast in Tianjin with a long history. Mix mung bean flour and eggs to make pancakes, then spread sweet noodle sauce and tofu, sprinkle chopped green onion and coriander, and then wrap them in crispy fried dough sticks or crispy "fruit lattice". Among them are sweet sauce, tofu, chopped green onion, coriander and so on. You can choose freely. Friends who like spicy food can also add salty taste, which is a delicious breakfast with a "hard shell". It is common for real pancake stalls and fruit stalls to queue up early in the morning, because that's how Tianjin people eat.

Nowadays, with the improvement of taste, the raw materials of pancake fruit are not limited to mung bean noodles. In order to offset the relatively rough taste of mung bean noodles, some vendors will add white flour to mung bean noodles, or develop various options such as bean noodles and black bean noodles. However, most local pancakes in Tianjin still have two choices: fried dough sticks and fruit planers.

Because the name of this food is precisely because Tianjin people call fried dough sticks fruit. "Pancakes with fruit on them are naturally called pancakes. Tianjin breakfast restaurant also has its own characteristics. Fruit pancake stalls and donuts are usually side by side. The fritters here are sent directly to the next room to make pancakes. Sometimes the production line needs to be repaired twice. Even so, Tianjin people are still "fruit" pancakes.

The inheritance of food needs innovation, but it doesn't need plagiarism. Behind commercial interests, it is more important to protect precious traditional food from being forgotten. I only hope that a tragedy like "Wushan Burning" will not happen again in a period of heyday and rapid decline.