Hebei meat cake originated in Hebei Shenze County, West River Village, the founder of the late Qing Dynasty West River Village Li Luoti, commonly known as the West River meat cake, known as Hengshui, Baoding, Renqiu, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin, Beijing and other more than 20 counties and cities, ranked in the deep Zephyr "cuisine of the three greats," the first.
According to the county cultural department, the West River meat cake was formed at the end of the nineteenth century. At that time, the West River village of Li Luoti, also known as Li Wei's grandfather, in a rich family's meat shop as a mate, the end of the year the proprietor gave each person a piece of donkey meat. Due to the family's meat less (Li Wei's grandfather's generation of brothers and sisters ****8 people), Li Luoti had to donkey meat into a filling, put starch and cooking seasonings, stirred with hot water, steamed on the pot. I did not expect a pot, an aroma on the nose, a taste, but also quite tasty. From then on, Xihe meat cake was born. After the Li family continued to improve their skills, their own meat workshop, in addition to making meat cakes, but also do pork, pork, beef, donkey meat. Do not allow individuals to work alone during that time, Li Wei's grandfather worked in the meat department of the Cheng Guan Supply and Marketing Bureau, still cooking meat, meat cake, the heritage has not been interrupted. Li Wei's father took over in the 1980s, from pushing a wheelbarrow to drive the village to the market, the development of a fixed stall in the county market. Li Wei took over after the first store opened in the county in 2000, from a simple meat stall, developed into a fast-food restaurant to sell meat wrapped in baked goods.