The origin of fried cakes

Erduoyan Fried Cake (Fried Cake) originated in Guangxu period in the late Qing Dynasty (1900). Liu Wanchun (1874- 1962), the first generation shopkeeper, went from pushing an ostrich cart all over the street to setting up a stall on the street outside the north gate of the west exit of Yuyi Street. After accumulating some capital, he made a cash deal with his nephew Zhang. Liu Wanchun's fried cakes have fine ingredients, fine workmanship, delicious taste and low price. Outstanding among many fried cakes, it is unique, and its business is booming, winning the reputation of "Fried Cake Liu", and because the fried cake shop is close to the dye house, pawn shop, bank, cloth shop, shoes and hats shop on Appraisal Street and Shenzhen Street. Rich people have birthdays, and ordinary people have birthdays. With the homonym of the word "cake", Liu Ji's fried cake shop made an appointment to buy fried cakes in advance, and the business was booming. Because the fried cake shop is close to a narrow alley-Erduoyan Hutong, which is only 1 m wide, people humorously call it Erduoyan. Although it was renamed as "Zengshengcheng" during the Japanese puppet regime, Erduoyan Fried Cake Shop became more and more famous. Fried cakes are also called "fried cakes with pierced ears".