Speaking of its origin, it can be traced back to the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago. A 14-year-old boy named Guiyouyou came to Tianjin from his hometown in Yangcun, Wuqing County, and became a waiter in the Liu steamed food shop. This shop specializes in assorted steamed food and meat buns, and its customers are mostly boatmen, trackers and small traders who travel to and from the canal pier. Gao Gui specializes in making steamed buns in the store. Because he had a strong personality in his childhood, his parents gave him a nickname "Goubuli". Other people's small hearts, made buns delicious, sold quickly, praised by people. When he was 16 or 17 years old, he used the money he had saved to open a steamed bun shop nearby. People used to call him "Goubuli" by his nickname, and over time, he called his steamed buns "Goubuli".
Noble has a good skill in making steamed buns. He was the first in Tianjin to put bone soup as stuffing, and the first to make steamed stuffed buns with rice flour. Therefore, it is neat in size, white and soft in face, fat but not greasy, and delicious. When he was in his twenties, he was ashamed to use his nickname again, and changed it to "Deju". But people still like to call him "Goubuli". At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi ate the "Goubuli" steamed stuffed bun sent by Yuan Shikai and sent someone to Tianjin to buy it. Since then, the reputation of "Goubuli" steamed stuffed bun has become even greater.
"Goubuli" steamed stuffed bun shop has a history of more than 100 years now, and it is getting bigger and bigger, and the business is getting more and more prosperous. They have also received groups of foreign tourists. When Prince Sihanouk arrived in Tianjin, he specially invited the chef of the "Goubuli" steamed bun shop to his residence to make "Goubuli" steamed buns for him, and ate porridge and pickles according to the traditional eating method of this steamed bun shop. When President Bush was the former director of the Liaison Office in China, he also went to Tianjin to taste the "Goubuli" steamed stuffed bun. Therefore, as the saying goes in Tianjin, "If you don't taste Goubuli when you come to Tianjin", you have never been to Tianjin.