The original name of fried dough sticks was "fried cypress", and it is said that it was first invented by Lin'an people.
According to the "History of the Song Dynasty", in the eleventh year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Hui and others killed Yue Fei and his son, a famous anti-Jin general, on unfounded charges. At that time, the soldiers and civilians were very angry, and they always wanted to use their own way to express dissatisfaction with traitors.
One day, there were two vendors selling breakfast in Lin'an Fengbo Pavilion. They had always respected Yue Fei and Yue Jiajun. On impulse that day, they kneaded the dough in their hands into Qin Hui and Wang. They were shaped into individual pieces, then twisted together, put into the oil pan and fried slowly, and were named fried cypress.
When the shouting came together, the passers-by heard it and found it very strange. They immediately gathered around and saw the two ugly men rolling around in the oil, making a squeaking sound as they passed by. Introduction, after understanding who the bombed man was, everyone also shouted together.
There are various ways to eat fried dough sticks:
For example, Tianjin people like to roll fried dough sticks into pancakes as a snack, called pancake fruit. As for Shanghai’s traditional breakfast, fried dough sticks are one of them, and others include flatbreads, soy milk, glutinous rice balls, etc.
In places such as Guangdong and Hong Kong, the most popular way to eat rice rolls is to wrap the rice rolls in fried dough sticks and then top them with refined soy sauce before eating. Of course, you can also add some chili sauce or sweet noodle sauce and other auxiliary ingredients. .
Some people even like to put the fried dough sticks into porridge and eat them together. This is not the way Henan people eat them. They will eat the freshly fried fried dough sticks with tofu curd or some hot and sour soup. This is also the locals’ favorite way to eat breakfast.