The production of ear and eye fried cake has a history of more than 100 years, during the Qing Guangxu period, the founder "fried cake Liu" Liu Wanchun to sell fried cakes to make a living, the store site outside the narrow ear eye hutong exit outside the north gate, by diners jokingly called ear eye fried cake. In 1957, the store joined a public-private partnership, and in 1978, it was named "Ear and Eye Fried Cake Shop" by the Municipal Catering Company.
Ear eye fried cake is made of rice, red adzuki beans are used for processing noodle sauce, white sugar is stuffed by traditional craftsmanship, fried in designated oil, and the finished product has a golden skin and crispy skin. Since 1983, Ear Eye Fried Cake has been awarded the "Quality Food All-Gram Award" by the Municipal Government, the Municipal Commission of Commerce, the Municipal Culinary Association and the Municipal Catering Company, and won the gold medal at the 5th Asia-Pacific Expo in 1994, and was recognized as "Chinese Famous Snack" by the China Cuisine Association in December 1997. Ear eye fried cake and dog buns, eighteenth street twist flowers were named "Tianjin Three Best Foods" by the Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Cooking Association.
Ear and eye fried cake has four characteristics of "yellow, soft, tendon and fragrant".
Ear Eye Fried Cake Ear Eye Fried Cake originated in the Qing Guangxu Gengzi period (1900), when the North Gate Street was the Tongde Street Avenue to the Beijing Division, and the east and west sides of the Yi Street, Needle Market Street, Bamboo Pole Lane, etc., had the largest market for dried and fresh fruits, leather goods, dyes and medicinal materials in the city. Liu Wanchun (1874-1962), the first-generation treasurer of the Ear Eye Fried Cake Shop, originally pushed a wheelbarrow in the Drum Tower and Beidaguan took away the streets and alleys to sell goods on the North Gate Street at the west entrance of Jiayi Street. Later, Liu Wanchun and his nephew Zhang Kuiyuan partnered to rent an eight-foot square door on Beimenwai Street, hung up the sign of "Liu Ji" fried cakes, and set up a fried cake shop. Later, Liu Wanchun's sons Liu Yucai, Liu Yushan, Liu Yushu and so on entered the store one after another. During the Japanese and Japanese periods, the ear and eye fried cake shop was forced to join the Chamber of Commerce and named it "Zengshengcheng". The official title of Zengshengcheng was not accepted by the people, but the nickname of ear and eye has been passed down to this day.
