Sugar onion pancake, as its name implies, is a piece of sugar with onion holes on it, as white as onions.

In the past, when you walked down the street after school, you could see many stalls selling sugar onions and pancakes, and you could hear many small vendors walking around the street shouting "sugar onions and pancakes ~". But now, very few, only a few booths are still doing.

Sugar onion pancakes have a long history and culture. It is said that it was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and is a unique craft of Chaoshan people. Sugar onions are delicious, but they are not easy to make. Nowadays, fewer and fewer people make sugar onions, and its production process tests the efforts of the producers. The main raw materials of sugar onions are white sugar and maltose. First, pour the sugar into the pot and boil it into slurry. After cooling to the right temperature, strike while it is hot. The action of pulling sugar is a bit like pulling noodles, which is more laborious. Some people will first fix one end of the sugar with a nail, then stretch the two strands together and continue to pull, repeatedly pulling to make the sugar contain air, until the sugar becomes a white hollow rectangular candy bar, and then cut it into sections with a little finger, which becomes a crisp and sweet "white onion".

Before coming to the booth, I saw the stall owner spread out a pancake, put sugar onions on it, sprinkle some black sesame seeds, and then fold it up. After a while, a pancake with sugar and onions is ready.

With a gentle bite, the crisp sweetness is mixed with salty pancakes, which is memorable.