Introduction

Sugar onion pancake is a snack in Chaoshan. It comes from Futan Village, Chendian Town, Chaonan District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, and is called Yatan, so many people call it "Yatan Sugar Onion". It is wrapped in a round pancake bag, and its shape is very consistent with the name. The sugar onion is long, with many through holes in the middle, like many onion holes stuck together side by side. It's also white, and it's a thin round cake. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the sugar onion and wrap it in pancakes, and you can eat it.

In the past, you could see many stalls selling sugar onion pancakes on many streets in Chaoshan area. The pancakes are freshly made, and the sugar onion is also very fresh. It tastes crispy and tough inside. Now this kind of food has gradually lost its consumer group, and it may be seen more in towns and villages. It is said that it is rare in urban areas. There are some clear pictures of sugar onion pancakes in the book "Chao Cai Tian Xia", and there are also pictures of the making process of sugar onion pancakes. The author also spent a lot of time writing sugar onion pancakes. The following is a description of sugar onion and pancakes picked from Zhang Xinmin's "Watching Chaoshan": The foil roll of sugar onion is also called sugar onion foil cake, which is a Chaoshan food that is about to disappear, and one that people will even miss in their sleep. Let's talk about sugar onions first. The main raw material for making sugar onions is white sugar. You should first boil it in a pot and cool it to a suitable temperature before pulling it while it's hot. The action of pulling sugar is very similar to that of Lamian Noodles in the north, but the sugar has great toughness, so it needs a fixed end to help it. What I saw when I was a child was to use nails nailed to wooden poles. Every time I hung the sugar bars in the middle of the nails, after stretching, the two strands were combined and hung up. This was repeated and repeated. Until it becomes a white hollow rectangular candy bar. Then it is cut into small finger-length segments and becomes crispy and sweet "white sugar onion". Sugar onion, as the name implies, is a candy bar with onion holes and as white as scallion. Sugar onion tastes loose and crisp, melts in the mouth without touching teeth, which is really delicious. The fly in the ointment is that sugar crumbs are always dropped when eating, so there are foil cakes to roll sugar onions. Speaking of foil cakes, Perhaps many people will think of the kind of pancake used for stuffing when eating Beijing roast duck. However, the foil cakes in Chaoshan are thinner, about a dozen of which are equivalent to the thickness of a Beijing pancake when stacked. The Chaoshan foil cakes are not rolled out with a rolling pin, but made in a special way. The people who make the foil cakes hold the thin dough in one hand and take it back to the bottom of the hot pot, and the thin layer stuck and attached to the pot solidifies into cakes. So the other hand lifted the foil cake and put it on the side. It was very quick to wipe it, collect it, expose it and put it away.

Current situation

Sugar onions used to be packed in white plastic barrels, and pancakes were packed in other plastic bags, which was quite flavor.

But this kind of packaging was difficult to keep the crisp state of sugar onions for a long time in summer. At present, villagers in Futan began to use a new packaging, which used pancakes and sugar onions to be sealed separately.