China News Service, Jilin, Dunhua, July 1 (Reporter Guo Jia) Pancakes are the most readily available food in ordinary streets, especially in Northeast China and Shandong.

From a small onion to big fish and meat, pancakes seem to cover everything, and the amount is optional.

There is a wide range of pancake lovers, from peddler pawns to wealthy merchants.

For thousands of years, it has made its home like a dandelion, and even traveled across the ocean.

　　50-year-old Chen Changyou always has pancakes at every meal.

When she was poor when she was young, Chen's mother often stuffed pancakes into her schoolbag for lunch.

My mother is very good at craftsmanship, and neighbors often invite her to sell pancakes at home.

The pancakes are sweet and fragrant.

Decades later, Chen Changyou's pancakes have sold well in more than ten countries, and people call him "the king of pancakes".

　　Chen's mother did not expect her son to get rich from pancakes.

Pancakes are originally a Shandong cuisine. When they entered the Guandong East, the ancestors of the Chen family relied on it to go to the northeast.

Pancakes are portable and easy to store, and they were a must for every family at that time.

In the TV series "Crossing the Guandong", half a pancake can save a life.

Chen Changyou's pancake factory.

(Data map) Photo courtesy of Chen Changyou

　　Regarding pancakes, Pu Songling has a vivid description: "The round is like a full moon, as big as a copper zheng, as thin as the paper of a river, and the color is like the plume of a yellow crane." On the shape of the scorpion, spread it out with a scorpion (a wooden board with a handle), and the fragrance evaporates instantly, and it can be spread in about 40 seconds.

The freshly spread pancakes are slightly crispy and have the strongest sweetness. They become soft when they are cooled. They can be folded at will, and they are especially glutinous when they are chewed by hand. After chewing in the mouth, they become soft and glutinous in an instant.

　　The weather in Northeast China is cool, pancakes are stored for a long time, their fragrance is not easily lost, and they are convenient to eat, so they have gradually become one of the favorite staple foods of local farmers.

In the old days, Northeasterners often sent stacks of pancakes to relatives and friends far away.

Today, with the development of online shopping, such customs still exist.

　　Chen Changyou's hometown is Tongxin Village, Qinggou Township, Dunhua City, Jilin Province. It is extremely remote, but almost everyone can spread pancakes.

From Dunhua City to Changbai Mountain, there are also many pancake shops on the side of the road.

At first, Chen Changyou's small shop opened on the side of the road.

　　Around 2000, when the rural population in China entered the city, Chen Changyou and his new wife came from the countryside to Dunhua City to seek better development. Over time, he could not help but miss his mother's pancakes, which were not available in the city at that time. pancakes.

The couple thought this was an opportunity, so they started a business with a scorpion based on their family skills.

　　Traditional pancakes mostly use coarse grains as raw materials, and the husband and wife love to study them. Dates, red beans, pumpkin, chocolate, milk, strawberries, apples, wolfberry, ginseng, spinach, celery... More than 40 kinds of ingredients can be used. The pancakes come out with gorgeous colors and different flavors.

As business boomed, they built factories.

Workers who sell pancakes are recruited locally, with a monthly salary of about 5,000 yuan.

　　With the passage of time, not only the taste of pancakes is more diverse, but the way of eating has also changed quietly.

In the past, people liked to eat pancakes with vegetables rolled up, at least with scallions, but now it is different, and it is more popular to eat with drinks or stutter.

Chen Changyou keeps pace with the times and makes the pancakes into small packages, the smallest is only 10 grams.

Once, his daughter came home from school and packed a bag of snacks, which made him very puzzled. It turned out that the classmates exchanged her pancakes for "high prices".

　　Pancakes, which were once a staple food, suddenly turned into snacks, and are very popular among young consumers.

Soon after, Chen Changyou's pancakes not only became airline meals, but also accidentally opened up the international market.

　　The wide variety of "Changyou Pancakes" has made foreigners also curious, and some people even went to the factory to visit.

He said that foreigners love picnics, and pancakes are perfect.

Chen Changyou's pancakes have been sold to more than ten countries, including Japan, South Korea, the United States, Australia, Italy, and Vietnam.

Japanese like jujube pancakes, Americans like chocolate pancakes.

　　Today, 40% of the pancakes from Chen Changyou's factories are exported abroad.

He does not recruit salespeople, and sales rely solely on word of mouth.

A foreign buyer once told him that they like this kind of original food, which preserves the original taste of the ingredients to the greatest extent possible.

　　The cooking techniques of Chinese cuisine have always been complicated, and there are very few dishes that are as simple and unadorned as pancakes.

The understanding of food, China and foreign countries can converge on this pancake.

　　Over the years, although the company has grown bigger and bigger, Chen Changyou and his wife still stay in the production workshop all day and dare not neglect for a moment.

"The more people I eat, the greater the pressure. I can't spoil the food that has been around for thousands of years." Chen Changyou said.

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