Famous Snacks: The Origin of Donkey Rolls

Donkey rolls are one of the traditional snacks of old Beijing and Tianjin Wei, and you can still see the traditional donkey rolls made by old people in the old streets of Beijing today. Donkey rolls have existed for more than two hundred years in Chinese history. This issue I will take you to the snack culture book to see the origin of donkey roll.

"Donkey roll" is a popular snack that evolved from sticky food more than 200 years ago. It is made of yellow rice flour steamed with water. Another soybean fried, rolled into powdered noodles. The production of steamed yellow rice noodles outside dipped in soybean flour rolled into a sheet, and then smeared with red bean paste filling (also available in brown sugar) rolled up, cut into small pieces of about 100 grams, sprinkled with sugar on it.

Legend has it that in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial kitchen made a steamed rice cake for the emperor, and the little eunuch just picked it up and prepared to send it to the emperor, but the rice cake was accidentally dropped into a bucket full of soybean flour. When out of the rice cake found that the top has been stained with bean flour, how to get clean, and then re-do a new one has been too late.

The little eunuch had to be hard to the rice cake stained with bean noodles presented to the emperor. The emperor saw very surprised, asked him what this is the dish. The little eunuch made up a name in a hurry, said the dish is called donkey roll, because it is very much like a donkey rolling on the yellow earth after the body covered with yellow earth.

The emperor ate, think the rice cake dipped in soybean noodles taste very good, asked the little eunuch is how to do. At this time, the little eunuch told the emperor what happened, the emperor was not angry, but praised him. From then on the donkey roll this snack has become a Beijing authentic local snacks.