Legendary story of Tianjin dog indifferent buns

Mentioning Tianjin culture, we have to mention Tianjin food culture, which has a long and profound history. Tianjin is a city with a long history, so Tianjin traditional snacks have their own unique legends. The next step is for me to introduce to you the legendary story of the Tianjin dog indifferent buns.

When it comes to its origin, it has to be traced back to more than a hundred years ago during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, a fourteen-year-old child named Gao Guiyou came to Tianjin from his hometown in Yang Village, Wuqing County, to be a small fellow of Liu's Steam Food Shop. The store specialized in steamed food and meat buns, and most of its customers were boatmen, slender men and small traders who traveled to and from the canal docks. Gao Guiyou specialized in making buns in the store, and his parents gave him the nickname of "Dog Li" because of his strong personality at a young age. With a small heart, he made delicious buns that sold quickly and were praised by people. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he used the money he had saved to open a baozi store in the neighborhood, and people got used to calling him by his nickname, "Dog Li", and over time, the baozi he operated were called "Dog Li" baozi.

Gao Gui has a good hand at making buns. He is the earliest in Tianjin to put bone broth for filling, the first with rice flour buns, so the size of the neat, white face soft, bite open the flow of oil, fat but not greasy, delicious flavor. When he was in his twenties, he was ashamed to use his nickname as the name of his store, and changed it to "Deju No.". However, people still like to call him "Dogfu". At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi ate the buns sent by Yuan Shikai and sent someone to Tianjin to buy them. From then on, the fame of the "Dog Butterfly" buns became even bigger.

The "dog indifferent" baozi store has a history of more than a hundred years now, and the more it opens, the bigger the business is more and more prosperous. They have also received a number of foreign tourists. When Prince Sihanouk came to Tianjin, he also specially invited the chef of "Dogfu" baozi store to his place to make "Dogfu" baozi for him, and ate thin rice and pickles according to the traditional eating method of this baozi store. President George W. Bush, when he was the director of the former liaison office in China, also went to Tianjin to taste the "dog indifferent" buns. Therefore, the Tianjin people proverb says: "If you don't taste the buns in Tianjin, you haven't come to Tianjin.