The Origin and Tradition of Pancakes in Shandong

Shandong people's universal favorite pancake rolled onion, is made of flour into a thin pancake, rolled in Shandong specialty onion, eaten fragrant and crispy, onion aroma full of mouth. This traditional Shandong snack has a love story to tell.

In the Yimeng Mountains on the banks of the Mi River, smart, beautiful girl Huang Meizi and Liang Ma young man, love, a non-jun not married, a non-Qing not married. Huang Meizi cunning, tricky, money-minded stepmother, dislike of poverty and love of the rich, behind the back of the rich family to accept the money, promised to marry Huang Meizi. Huang Meizi refused to do so. Huang mother saw the situation set up a poisonous plan, so that Liang Ma to study in the Huang family, saying that when Liang Ma has passed the examination, and then married Huang Meizi. Mother Huang said, "I have prepared a study room and four treasures for you, do you see anything else you need?" Liang Ma said, "As long as there are books and pens, nothing else is needed." Hearing this, Huang's mother hurriedly said in a loud voice to the house slaves, "Did you hear that, he only needs paper and pen, nothing else, what a good son with ambition!" Thus Liang Ma moved into the study and buried his head in a book. Read to noon, do not see someone to send food to the dusk, still no one to send food, Liang Ma had to go out of the study to see, but the door of the courtyard guarded a slave, not allowed to go out, Liang Ma had to go back to the study and so on, and so on the moon until the western slant, still do not see the delivery of food.

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When Huang Meizi found out, she was anxious and angry. In her haste, she cooked a stack of very, very thin white cakes, cut the cakes squarely so that they looked just like white paper, and asked her maid to deliver them to Liang Ma. The house slave guarding the door at the entrance of the small courtyard droned, "Old madam has an order, only paper and pen are allowed to be sent in." The maiden replied: "Exactly send paper." The house slave took a look, really is a bunch of white paper, then let the girl ring into the courtyard. Liang Ma received these white paper, only smelled a fragrance coming from the nose, fixed attention to observe carefully, the original is the cake ah! Liang Ma immediately, ate a full, very admirable yellow sister's wit. Relying on the "white paper", Liang Ma study intensively. Three days passed, the yellow mother to see Liang Ma still calmly read and write articles, but also annoyed, viciously instructed the family slaves to starve Liang Ma three more days.

Huang Meizi in the "pen" on the word played up the idea of onions peeled and cut leaves to remove the root is like a pen, the maid to Liang Ma sent a bundle of pens to go. The family slaves to see is the pen, had to let go. Liang Ma ate "paper" and "pen", reviewing the homework, the body did not go down, the spirit of the day to see healthy. Three days passed, Huang mother heard the house slaves said: Liang Ma not only did not run, but also energetic, every day non-stop reading. Huang mother simply do not believe: "Could he drink the wind?" And the house-slave said: "Not drink the wind, but eat the paper and pen!" Mother Huang was so puzzled that she asked her house-slave to take her to see. They sneaked to the study window, poked through the window paper only to see Liang Ma with a paper rolled pen, gulping and eating it. Huang mother really do not believe that there is such a strange thing in the world, busy Liang Ma called to the main room, inquired in detail, Liang Ma ate a loss, of course, not to tell the truth, but instead pretended to be serious like to say: "under the age of nine years old, there has been a fairy teacher to teach me to point the stone into gold method, I only need to put the paper, pen gently a little bit, immediately become fragrant, become a tasty food. However, the immortal master also instructed me that I could only try it once before I achieved merit, and that I could only do as I wished after I won the list." Mother Huang heard this. Liang Ma that there are immortals to help, in the future will be a person of great wealth and prosperity, then changed a face, smilingly pleaded to Liang Ma: "Xian son-in-law ah, to that time, can never forget your mother-in-law ah!" Liang Ma was furious and amused, and said to Mother Huang without any mockery: "Of course, of course, when the time comes, I will also try my best to repay your kindness!" Hearing this, Huang mother smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into a slit, and busily called for the return of the rich family's marriage, and from then on Liang Ma was treated like a superior guest.

Liang Ma really won the first prize, the yellow sister received the capital, husband and wife, but also constantly relive the life of eating "paper" and "pen". This beautiful love story soon spread, from then on, pancake rolled onion eating method is also spread in the folk, Yimeng mountainous area of pancake rolled onion is also more and more famous. The women in that area have a handful of good skills, the people in that area also like to eat, but there is a little exception, that is, how the mother-in-law also refused to do pancakes rolled onions to the new son-in-law to eat. It can be seen that a small food, but also fully exposed to the people of the pursuit of truth and beauty and yearning it!