Pancake fruit is a street snack with Tianjin flavor, which is very popular in many places now. Roll fritters with pancakes, and you can also add flour paste and green onions or chopped green onions when eating. In some places in the north, fried dough sticks are called "fruit". Tianjin's fried dough sticks are similar to those in Nanjing and Shanghai, but smaller and tighter than those in other northern cities. They are from the south. The production of Tianjin pancakes is imported from Shandong, and the scale is smaller after improvement. The diameter is only the length of a fried dough stick. It is made of millet or mung bean powder, sometimes sprinkled with eggs, which is called egg pancake fruit.

In most parts of Beijing, pancakes are used to spread egg rolls with black sesame seeds, coriander, sweet noodle sauce or spicy noodle sauce. You can even mix the frozen minced beef in the hot pancakes just made, which is especially delicious.

Pancake fruit breakfast is convenient and hot, and it is very popular in northern cities in recent years. Beijing was introduced from Tianjin in the1980s.