China's twist flowers are most famous in Tianjin, and the twist flowers in Tianjin are the most authentic in Guifaxiang 18th Street. Gui Faxiang Eighteenth Street twist flowers and dogs ignore the buns, ears and eyes fried cakes and called "Tianjin Three Absolute".
Why is the 18th Street twist called "18th Street"? I believe that many people have the same question. With this question in mind, in a 2002 Taiwanese television show "China Is So Big," Chen Qiaoen interviewed Liu Shaoming, the inheritor of the 18th Street twist. The answer given by Teacher Liu Shaoming was "Our location is called Eighteenth Street, and the East Building is Eighteenth Street as soon as the bridge is crossed." The "our location" mentioned by Teacher Liu Shaoming should be the Guifaxiang Twist Flower Old Shop at the intersection of Dagu South Road and Limin Road.
There is little trace of Eighteenth Street on the map of Tianjin today. A "Hexi District East Building 18th Street 8" nameplate and a 1956 Tianjin bus route map seem to bear witness to this history.
The nameplate of "8 18th Street, East Building, Hexi District" is made of enamel with white characters on a blue background, and its Chinese characters are traditional characters, which should be left before the promotion of simplified characters in 1956.
A map of public transportation in Tianjin in January 1956 confirmed Liu Shaoming's statement that the East Building stood north of the Jinhe River, the Eighteenth Street stood south of the Jinhe River, and the East Building was the Eighteenth Street as soon as it crossed the bridge.
Nowadays, only the 18th Street Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has nothing to do with twist, but it still uses the 18th Street.