The oil cakes and fried dough sticks all taste of old Beijing. Old Tianjin is called Pot Head, and old Beijingers usually eat it for breakfast. Old Beijingers eat oil cakes with soy milk.

The method of making oil cake is the same as that of fried dough sticks, but the shape is different. First, roll the noodles into yuan cakes, punch holes in them, then coat them with cooking oil, and then fry them in a pot. The cake is crisp outside and tender inside, oily but not greasy. Some people eat them for breakfast, which is more delicious with bean juice.

The general population can eat hyperlipidemia patients, diabetics and people with liver and renal insufficiency. Old people, pregnant women and obese people eat less or not.