Chinese people living overseas say that snacks are the hometown meals of Beijingers.
Baodu is one of the many Beijing snacks and the most popular Beijing-style famous food in Beijing today. Its history is only more than a hundred years old, but its taste is fresh and crispy, and it is deeply loved by old people. It is loved by Beijingers. Some people say that you are not a Beijinger if you don’t eat Baodu, which shows how popular it is.
Among the many brands selling Baodu in Beijing, Baodu Feng is the most famous. Five generations of painstaking efforts over more than 120 years have made it a time-honored brand renowned in the capital. Feng Guangju, the third generation descendant of the Feng family, But a celebrity in Beijing's snack industry, he is not only a key figure in the continuation of the Feng family's ancestral craftsmanship to this day, but also a leader in promoting the development of Beijing's snack industry.
Feng Guangju, who is over eighty years old, has to go to the Paodu shop run by his sons every day. He wants to ensure that the ancestral craftsmanship does not change. The more traditional it is, the more Beijing flavor it has. This is also a characteristic of Beijing snacks. But in the face of development, the unchanged technology and business model may die out, which is also what Feng Guangju is most worried about.