Grits soup readsá?tāng.

Grits, mostly made of beef and wheat kernels, flour, onion, ginger, salt, pepper, five-spice powder, sesame oil, soy sauce and vinegar, are one of the traditional famous foods in Linyi.

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Grits are one of the 16 kinds of food listed in Yizhou Zhi - Rank during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. "Grits" is literally a soup made of meat, and it is said that grits were the breakfast drink of the ancient western region, and were introduced to the mainland in Tang Dynasty.

And Linyi grits is from the Yuan Dynasty (now Beijing), according to legend, it is an ancient Western Hui breakfast food, initially by the Yuan Dynasty, a Hui couple came to Linyi to operate, then called "meat paste", and then more and more imitators, the Ming Dynasty period as "grits".

The first time I saw this meat porridge in Linyi, it was called "Meat Paste", and then there were more and more imitators.

Before the liberation, there were 8 grits stores in Linyi city, and the chicken grits and Chen Yushan beef grits of the Huang, Liu and Wu families were the most famous. 1946, when Comrade Chen Yi was stationed in Linyi, he was a regular customer of the Huang family's grits store. Currently, there are dozens of famous grits stores in Linyi city, small and medium-sized grits stores are blooming everywhere, and Linyi grits pavilions have been opened in Shanghai, Qingdao and other places.

Shanghai International Hotel and Jinan Nanjiao Hotel have hired Linyi grits technicians to make grits, making grits more popular. From then on, grits were also known to all people and have been passed down to this day.