Only vegetarian chicken is a soy product, the other two are wheat products. The difference between the three is as follows:

One, the raw materials are different

1, oil gluten

Wheat flour is washed, precipitation, wheat starch, the by-products of the water gluten, if the water gluten into a small ball, put in a frying pan, it will quickly expand and become very characteristic of the oil gluten.

2, baked bran

Wheat will be ground into bran flour, with the right amount of water to adjust the strength, and in the water in the rubbing sieve, separated from the starch, leaving the gluten, after fermentation and steaming is spongy vegetable protein.

3, vegetarian chicken

Vegetarian chicken is a traditional soybean food, vegetarian chicken with tofu skin (thousand sheets, non-oil skin) as the main ingredient, rolled into a round stick shape, bundled tightly boiled, sliced oil, plus seasonings stir-fried into a delicacy.

Two, produced in different years

1, oil gluten: the Qing dynasty Qianlong era, has been more than 260 years of history.

2, baked bran: East Han Dynasty Emperor Guangwu, fighting with Wang Mang, he found that the flour was wet by the rain moldy, he took a piece of moldy dough in the river to wash, and ultimately washed out of what is today called baked bran.

3, vegetarian chicken: Liang Wu Di believed in Buddhism will be vegetarian chicken instead of meat, and since then in the folklore.

Three, different places of origin

1, oil gluten: Wuxi, Jiangsu

2, roasted bran: Jiangnan

3, vegetarian chicken: originated in Changzhou, Jiangsu

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