In Tianjin, people get up every day to get used to going out to eat breakfast, and few make breakfast at home. Gaba cuisine is indispensable, "Gaba cuisine" should be the real name of "pot cuisine", Tianjin dialect called "Gaba cuisine". The pot is made of mung beans and millet water ground into a pulp, spread into a thin and uniform pancake (commonly known as Gaba in Tianjin), dried and cut into willow leaf-shaped strips, immersed in vegetarian brine, bowled, and made of six small ingredients such as sesame paste, curd milk, chili oil, spicy paste, sprinkled with dried brine slices and coriander foam. The finished product is colorful, multi-flavored mixed, vegetarian flavor, pot and pan tender and bitey, delicious and nutritious.
As early as the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, from the description of the great literary scholar Pu Songling's "Pancake Fu", it can be seen that the Shandong people at that time ate pancakes, in addition to the method of rolling green onions and dipping sauce, there was also a way to brew pancake soup. Later, the Shandong people who fled to Jinmen also brought pancakes to Tianjin, and after several evolutions, they formed two unique methods of eating pancakes in Tianjin, namely pot vegetables and pancake fruits. Become a unique Jinmen flavor snack completely different from Shandong pancake roll scallion and pancake soup.
Tianjin Gaba cuisine is the most authentic of Dafulai. The founder of "Dafu Lai Pot Ba Cai" is surnamed Zhang, and is the thirteenth generation of Zhang Qing, a good Han vegetable garden in Liangshan in the Song Dynasty. Created by Zhang Lan and his wife in the 22nd year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1757 AD), it has been passed down for nearly 300 years, and the name of the shop was given by the Qianlong Emperor during his second southern tour. It originated from the Shandong pancake, was created during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, officially fixed in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and has been passed down to this day.