This kind of fried cake with ears and eyes is a traditional local snacks in Tianjin, which has been developed for many years. As for the name Erduoyan, it is estimated that many people will wonder what this fried cake has to do with Erduoyan. In fact, because the origin of this fried cake is near the local Erduoyan Hutong, Tianjin people named it Erduoyan Fried Cake, but it is actually a glutinous rice fried cake.
In many streets and alleys of Tianjin, you can see shops selling fried cakes with pierced ears. Basically, the fried cakes with pierced ears in many shops are freshly fried, so they taste delicious. Locals will make cakes with glutinous rice flour, which will be fried with red bean paste. The fried cake with ears and eyes is crisp in appearance, but soft to bite and waxy in the middle.
This fried cake with ears and eyes tastes a bit like sesame balls. The difference is that there is no sesame on this ear-eye fried cake. It tastes soft and sweet, and one is not enough.
Moreover, fried cakes with ears and eyes have developed into more and more flavors. In addition to the classic bean paste stuffing, there are dozens of flavors such as rose, strawberry, pineapple and black sesame.
In fact, many Tianjin people have been eating this kind of ear-shaped fried cake since childhood, but now many people say that they can't eat the unique sweetness of ear-shaped fried cake when they were young, and the glutinous rice skin is not as fragrant as before.
Indeed, many snacks are now produced by machines, which naturally have no taste of hand-made before. What do you think of this? Have you ever eaten fried cakes with ears and eyes?