Crispy rice dish is not as famous as pancakes, pancake rolls, and flatbread sandwich, but it has a heavy weight in the hearts of Tianjin people.

Mung beans and millet are ground into flour, spread into pancakes, and cut into willow leaf shapes with tools to make crispy rice, commonly known as Gaba.

Sesame oil, aniseed, five-spice powder, etc. are used to make brine.

Put the gaba into the marinade, top with sesame sauce, soy bean curd sauce, and a handful of coriander.

A bowl of delicious gaba dishes is ready.

Legend has it that the crispy rice cake dish was created by Dafulai. You can see this entry on Baidu Encyclopedia: Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and returned to Beijing on the way to Tianjin. He passed by shopkeeper Zhang’s pancake shop. He first tasted the pancake roll with green onions, and then ordered

Soup.

In her eagerness, the hostess tore the pancakes into pieces, added salt, sesame oil, and coriander, and washed them with boiling water before serving them.

While drinking and eating, Qianlong felt that the pancakes tasted better once soaked in them, so he asked the hostess her name and she said Guo Ba.

When Qianlong heard this, he said with a smile: "Guoba cannot be called soup. We should add the word 'dish'." A few days later, as soon as shopkeeper Zhang opened the door to accept customers, an imperial guard broke in and shouted loudly.

He shouted: "Your great blessing has come!" After saying that, he put down the two hundred taels of silver rewarded by the emperor.

"Dafulai Crispy Rice Cake" became famous.

In Tianjin, the famous crispy rice dishes are: Dafulai, Zhensucheng, Ma Jifulai and Erli rice rice.

And in the hearts of every Tianjin person, there is one of their favorite crispy rice dishes.

The combination of the fragrant, translucent and delicious marinade, the heat-clearing and relieving rice crust, the salty and savory sesame sauce, soybean curd sauce and coriander creates a delicious rice crust dish.

Crispy rice dishes can be paired with fruit, flatbread with fruit, egg fruit, flatbread with egg, sesame seed cake with beef, candy fruit, etc.

If you come to Tianjin to visit, be sure to get up early in the morning and go around the surrounding residential areas to see which breakfast shop has the most people queuing up. Go there and queue up quickly, because Tianjin people have a mouth full of food and they love to eat. That’s right.

Order a bowl of crispy rice, a steamed bun, a fruit, and a bowl of pulp, and while eating, listen to the interesting chats of the Tianjin people around you. Then your trip to Tianjin is not in vain.

Crispy rice dish is a part of Tianjin people’s life.

Crispy rice dishes, dry or thin, are good-looking and delicious, reflecting the tolerant character of Tianjin people.