Donkey rolls, one of the traditional snacks in Beijing and Tianjin, are beautifully colored in yellow, white and red. It is named "Donkey Rolls" because the soybean flour sprinkled on the final product resembles the yellow soil raised by the wild donkeys rolling around in the countryside of Beijing, which is why it is called "Donkey Rolls".

The raw materials of "donkey rolls" include yellow rice flour, soybean flour, clarified sand, sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon, green and red silk and melon seeds. Its production is divided into three processes: making blanks, stuffing and molding. Do a good job of "donkey roll" outer layer of sticky soybean noodles, was golden yellow, bean aroma filling sweet, soft in the mouth, distinctive flavor, bean filling melt in the mouth, sweet into the heart, soybean noodles into the mouth can be not chewing, fine taste, is a traditional snack for young and old alike.

Legendary origin:

The first origin

It is said that once, the Empress Dowager Cixi tired of eating the food in the palace, want to taste some new things. So ah, the imperial food chef left and right, decided to use river rice flour wrapped in red bean paste to make a new dish. New dishes just done, there is a small donkey called the eunuch came to the imperial kitchen, who knows that this small donkey a careless, just made a new dish touched the basin filled with soybean flour, which can be anxious about the imperial kitchen, but at this time and then re-do and it is too late, there is no other way, the chef had to be tough to present this dish to the front of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi ate this new thing think the flavor is not bad, asked the chef: "What is this thing called ah?" The chef thought, are called the little donkey eunuch trouble, so with the Empress Dowager Cixi said: "This is called 'donkey roll'." From then on, there is "donkey roll" this snack.

The second origin

Legend has it that Qianlong quelled the rebellion of the small and large and Zhuo, Xinjiang, a Uyghur leader's wife snatched to the palace as his consort, that is, Fragrant Concubine.

Shang Fei was snatched to Beijing, day and night, the tea and rice, Qianlong was anxious, passed a decree to the Imperial Household Cuisine, said: if anyone can make the princess love to eat things, not only the promotion, but also rewarded thousands of silver taels. This came to the imperial chefs to show their skills, make a masterpiece, mountain delicacies, flavorful food, do thousands of samples, but the princess did not even look at. Qianlong had to decree to call the white hat camp people to the princess to do the hometown food sent to the palace.

The words are divided into two said, the husband of the Princess of Fragrance since the Princess of Fragrance was snatched into the palace, but also trekked from Xinjiang to Beijing, hiding in the White Hat camp, trying to find ways to inquire about the whereabouts of the Princess of Fragrance. When he heard that the emperor ordered the people in the White Hat Camp to make a delicious meal to send to the palace for the Fragrant Concubine, he thought it was a good opportunity to make contact. So he made a plate of his family's heirloom homemade dim sum, Jiangmi Dumplings, and when Princess Xiang saw them, she would know it was her husband who had come.

The river rice dumplings were delivered to the palace, and the eunuch asked the name of the food, so he called it Donkey Roll. The palace maid to the donkey rolls served in front of the fragrant consort, the fragrant consort at first sight, eyes bright, know that her husband is coming, they will be strong, pick up one, gently bite a mouthful.

Qianlong heard that the fragrance of the consort to eat, happy. Decree to let the white hat camp of Ai Baiti every day to do donkey roll sent to the palace. From then on, Ai Baiti every day to do donkey roll sent to the palace, donkey roll also became famous. Later, it was spread to the people.