Tao Xingzhi, a great village sage, once wrote a poem praising his hometown's small baked cakes: "three crab shells, two bowls of mung bean congee, eat to the stomach, and enjoy unlimited blessings," the poem is written in almost vernacular, but also describes the leisurely life of the people of Huizhou in one or two. This is a traditional snack of Huizhou. The shape is small and full, yellow, like a crab shell, so it is called "crab shell yellow".

Who is the originator of the small baked cake called crab shell yellow, really can not say. As a snack, it is also very popular in Shanghai. "Before you see the baker's first smell, the entrance to the crispy skin have down," whether white-collar workers, or ordinary people, all love this thing.

The sea style of the sweet and salty: sweet mainly sugar lard filling, but also put rose, date paste, bean paste, and so on; salty to pork diced mainly, sophisticated to add into the crabmeat, shrimp, a kind of. Of course, shredded radish mixed with scallions, a green and white filling is also very popular.

In the early days, many teahouses in Shanghai had a barrel-type oven and a flat-bottomed frying pan oven in front of the door, with the former roasting crab shells and the latter making pan-fried dumplings, two very different styles of snacks that complemented each other. A yellow bus rustled by, and those who came down were either newspaper editors who stayed up all night, or teachers who had just finished their classes. This side of the order of crab shell yellow pan-fried buns each two, the other side of the glass door of the teahouse has been pulled open, the runners bent over, respectfully invite you into the, a section of the Shanghai Bund on the petty bourgeoisie life began.