Dog Li Baozi is a famous snack in Tianjin, which was founded in 1858 AD, and is one of the old Chinese brands. There are two kinds of stories about the origin of the buns:

One, there was a farmer's family in the suburbs of Tianjin in the ancient times, who got a son at the age of forty, and took the name of "dog" for the sake of peace. The dog grew up, first in Tianjin, a steamed food store as a small boy, and later set up their own baozi stall. Due to the business is too good, the dog can not take care of talking, people say: "the dog sells buns ignore people", people will call him the dog indifferent buns.

Second, there is a fourteen-year-old child named Dog Li, learning to make buns in Tianjin. The buns he made were delicious and sold quickly. People got used to calling him by his nickname, and over time, they called the buns he made "dog-less" buns.

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Cuisine Characteristics

Dog Li Baozi adopts the production process of "half-flour noodles and water filling". The skin is thin and tough; the filling is made of fine meat chopped finely and evenly, with ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, and pork rib soup. The buns are not out of shape, do not fall off the bottom, do not leak oil, each in the shape of a chrysanthemum.

The characteristics of the buns are: good selection of materials, thin skin and large filling, mellow flavor, tender and tasty, fat but not greasy.