Is Ji'nan famous food oil sweet or salty?
author Zhang Lei
reader Meng: to Ji'nan for nearly 5 years, he has eaten a sweet oil spin. A few days ago, when talking with some old Ji'nan, everyone said that I didn't eat oil whorl, and the real oil whorl was salty. Do you know whether it's sweet or salty?
Xiaobian reply: actually Xiaobian has also eaten a sweet appearance like oil whirlpool cake, but that is not called oil spin small can not be determined. According to records, the oil spin first appeared in Ji'nan during the Qing Dynasty. It was said that the oil spin was learned in Nanjing when Xu's 3 brothers (today Qihe county) went to the south in the Qing Dynasty. The taste of the oil swirled in the South was sweet. The Xu brothers came to Ji'nan to change the flavor of the oil to the salty flavor according to the dietary characteristics of the northerners, and has been passed on to the present. In the Qing Dynasty Gu Zhong's "raising small records" described the production of oil whirl: "and flour agent, rolling open." Add oil and roll out. Add oil and roll again for so seven times. The stove is branded, very beautiful. " It is said that the Feng Ji building in the city of Ji'nan in Daoguang was an early run of the oil and spin store, and the "Wensheng garden", which opened for twenty years in Guangxu, was famous for its business, such as oil and spin and other local snacks. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were dozens of shops running oil and spin in Ji'nan. At present, many hotels in Ji'nan have oil spin, and one of the most famous is Ji Xianlin's inscription "oil spin"; two is one in the old East Gate Street, and one is the "Hong Chun Mei Zhai", which was created by the "oil spin" of Ji'nan's non legacy project.