A travel enthusiast, every place, in addition to watching the beautiful scenery of the destination, feel the scenery brought by the accident, the most concerned is to taste the local specialties! In the mouth full of mellow fragrance, taste strong customs and customs, appreciate the characteristics of the food culture, is a happy thing. As "the world's first mountain" Mount Tai, because of its magnificent natural scenery, the mountains, as well as the origin of the spread of Mount Tai culture and favored by tourists at home and abroad, every year to visit millions of tourists, in the appreciation of the beautiful scenery, how can not remember the local specialties!
As a city of Tai'an integrated with Taishan Mountain City, since ancient times is the emperor's Zen sacrifice, the people's feelings of lyricism, the people wish to pray when the accommodation, the guests of the north of Tiannandi into Tai'an Deng Taishan, but also brought the traditional cuisine everywhere, with the local characteristics of food culture, water and milk blend, creating the present Taishan specialties, snacks. Such as Taishan pancakes, Fanzhen fire, Taishan Yujia fragrant roast chicken, Taishan tofu banquet, cabbage stew tofu, Xintai sticky chicken, Ningyang four or eight seats, Dongping bad fish, fat city horse beef and so on, become the signature of local specialties, by foreign tourists.
One of the most influential, the most widely spread non-Taishan pancakes are not! Marshal Chen Yi said affectionately: The victory of the Huaihai campaign was introduced by the people with a trolley", as a staple food, shandong pancakes on the trolley is the liberation of the Chinese people, made an indelible unique historical contribution. Shandong pancakes are from Tai'an. The earliest record of pancakes is the Ming Dynasty wan calendar year found in 1967 in the village of Dongyanglou, Zhuangzhen, Tai'an City, "separate contract", there is a "one plate of mules, pancakes twenty-three pounds" description. It can be seen that Shandong pancakes originated in Taishan, more than a thousand years of history.
Tai'an pancakes to the local rich corn, melons, millet, soybeans, peanuts, green beans and other raw materials, after crushing, crushing into noodles, soaked with water to fermentation, and then spoon the batter spread on the hot tweezers below the fire, hand-held to push the batter to spread it evenly on the surface of the tweezers, until the paste is molded and debunked, and then put down. Then, with the oil rub on the surface of the tweezers adhered to the edible oil wipes, play a lubrication role, to prevent the pancakes sticky tweezers difficult to remove. Because the batter has been fermented, so the pancake sweetness is filled with a faint sour taste. Of course, in other parts of Shandong, it is often not fermented, so pancakes are more sweet.
People fold the pancakes into squares, which are easy to store, carry and don't take up much storage space. Before eating, open pancakes, roll on small pickles, kelp silk, meat wire, oil bars, etc. , in short, everything can be rolled. In old times, living conditions were poor, and people put lard or soy sauce on pancakes and ate with relish! The most popular and most common way to eat, is to peel clean onions involved in it, stick to the top of the sauce, bean paste, etc. , a bite down, the spicy onion, the strong fragrance of the sauce with the sour sweetness of the pancakes, instantly stimulating taste buds, lips and teeth, simply not too cool! Foreign tourists can't stand it!
With the development of the times, people's material needs are getting higher and higher, Taishan pancakes are also constantly advancing with the times, new, one after another to develop a variety of tastes to adapt to different groups of people pancakes, there are wheat, corn, rice, sugar-free, grains, etc. , a large number of categories, as well as the name of the "pancake roll onion" restaurant. A small pancake, witnessed tai'an from poverty and backwardness to prosperity and prosperity. With the great abundance of material life, pancakes are no longer people's staple food, replaced by steamed bread, oil cakes, rice, etc. , but that difficult to give up the pancake feelings, that unique fragrance, but deeply imprinted in the memory of each old Tai'an people in the deepest, but also become every wandering outside the hearts of Tai'an endless thoughts, people can not be relieved!