"Rao" is a Manchu collective name for a variety of pasta. Rao is a Manchu word that is still used by the Manchu people today.
The raw materials for the gluttony are millet, sticky grain and sticky sorghum. The Manchus are a fishing and hunting people, hunting and fighting in the wild for a long time, carrying sticky food, which is both convenient and anti-hunger, and slowly develops the custom of eating food in the daily diet at home, and also uses various kinds of food in wedding and funeral customs and sacrifices to ancestors and gods.
The famous late writer Mr. Zhou Zuoren wrote in an article "What is the difference between the pastries in the north and the south": There is a type of dried dim sum, which is called rao in Beijing, which is used as idle food, probably no different from the south. According to my investigation, the history of dim sum in the north is ancient, the history of the south is new, and the ancients may also have Tang and Song dynasty ruins. There are two commonly used sentences on the dim sum shop signboard, I want to borrow it here, it seems to be appropriate, the north can be called "official ceremony tea food", the south is "careful point" (there is also a specific explanation due to the length of the article, not to be repeated here)
Fu Hua Zhai was born under the personal guidance of Mr. Wang Xifu, a descendant of the palace cuisine and Zhuangguan cuisine, and officially opened in January 2017. Push open the door of Fuhua Zhai, as if crossing into the Qing Palace drama, the palace lamp sprinkles soft lights, the Eight Immortals Table, Luohan Bed and other Chinese furniture can sit and lie down, and the bright yellow drapery and seat cushions and waist pillows create a court-style atmosphere. On the counter, a variety of dumplings and handwritten labels such as melon oil muffins, court rose cakes, rose bean paste, etc., are displayed, and a row of water signs with the name of the signature dumplings is hung above for customers to order food. The pastry room is a clear file operation room, and customers can watch how the pastry chefs make the dumplings during the process of drinking tea and eating the dumplings.
More than two years have passed, and today Fuhuazhai has become a popular traditional food shop, and it has become a "net red shop" that must be punched in Beijing in the various sharing of young customers.