The origin of the name "Goubuli steamed stuffed bun" is said to be because the boss's nickname was "Goubuli" at that time. The steamed stuffed bun he made was so famous that even Empress Dowager Cixi had eaten it. Now, Tianjin "Goubuli Steamed Bun" is also the name of a state-run hotel. In addition to a head office on Heping Road, there are also branches in many places in the city, and the business has been very hot. Recently, the restaurant has increased the live performance of making Goubuli steamed buns while customers are eating, which gives customers a deeper understanding of the brand-it will really attract business! !
"18th Street Twist" is named after its shop is located in 18th Street, Hexi District. Now it is basically called "Guifaxiang Twist". I don't know the origin of this name. "18th Street Twist" was famous for its assorted twist at first, but now it has produced various flavors of twist, and the main store also has the largest twist in the world, which is a Guinness World Record. It looks really exciting!
Erduoyan is the name of an alley outside the north gate of the old city of Tianjin. In the early years of the Republic of China, a fried cake shop opened in this alley. Fried cakes with glutinous rice flour and yellow rice flour as skins and red beans as fillings are crispy and sweet, and appetizing, so there is an "ear-shaped fried cake", which, together with "Goubuli Steamed Bun" and "Guifaxiang Twist", is one of the "Tianjin Three Musts", and the eaters are full all day.
As for "cats don't smell jiaozi", there is nothing to say because it was added by later generations. In addition to the "four wonders of Jinmen", Tianjin also has a large number of flavor foods, such as steamed foods such as bee cakes, sugar cakes, ripe pear cakes and dried cakes. There are pancake fruit, oven baked sesame seed cake, sesame seed cake, crispy sesame seed cake, fried leek box, egg box and so on. Fried foods include pies, pot stickers, fried dumplings and fried foods. Fried foods include twist, fruit grate, sugar peel, triangle, coil, fried whitebait, fried iron finch, etc. Sticky foods include fried cakes, pot stickers, glutinous rice and jujube cut cakes, sticky jujube cakes, Babaotan, glutinous rice lotus root and so on. Thin foods include crispy rice, soybean milk, old tofu, wonton, noodle tea, almond tea, tea soup, red bean porridge, millet porridge and jujube porridge. In addition, there are seasonal fried grasshoppers, boiled sweet potatoes in winter, baked sweet potatoes and so on. Tianjin's snacks are also quite distinctive. Candies include sesame paste sugar, medicinal sugar, mint cold sugar, sesame peel sugar, Yangliuqing dragon and tiger meat and so on. There are 72 kinds of hard fruits, including crisp beans and Tianjin beans; Green fruit cake (agar jelly), glutinous rice fruit cake and moss rose trumpet cake of bean cake; Juice sour plum soup, lotus root persimmon soup, black melon seeds, white melon seeds, peanuts, etc.
If you have the chance, you must go to Tianjin-just for these delicious foods!