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= Vegetable pancake (Caijianbing) =

Brief introduction
Vegetable pancakes is a kind of food which is popular in Lunan area of Shandong province, China. The name is the translation of Chinese cài jiān bǐng (菜煎饼'cai jian bing').

Origin
Vegetable pancake is a kind of popular（delete popular or change word） food in Lunan area of Shandong province, China. Its raw materials mainly include flour, grain, eggs, etc. It is suitable for both young and old. In the 1970s, most rural people's staple food is given priority to pancakes, and sweet potato is the main raw material. Conditions can be slightly better with putting some wheat. The pancakes are thick and when the pancake gets cold, it becomes tough to eat. It's a pity to throw the pancakes away so the mothers reconstructed the pancakes on the griddle heat, placing vegetables and various spices between two layers of bread. In this way, the vegetable pancake was born. Instead of wasting food, people found a delicacy. Later, people used tricycle to put simple structured griddle and walked down the street to cook the vegetable pancakes. It also became a way of raising a family.

The raw material
Flour, water, vegetables and spices.

Method of work
Cooks put the dish into a mixing bowl or water spoon. The they add the cooking oil (delicious and not too harsh), MSG, salt, cumin and other spices, and mix up. Cooks put the eggs evenly spread on a griddle and put the pancake on the top so that the egg sticks perfectly to the pancake. Then they add a few drops of oil on a griddle and prepare a pancake on the griddle, after that they pour mixing of all kinds of vegetables on the pancakes. Finally, cooks put another pancake on the top of the vegetables. It is well when both sides of the pancakes are golden.

How to eat
There are three kinds of methods to eat (Actually, one vegetable pancake is made by two sides of pancakes ).

People usually roll it up and eat directly. While some other people roll it up and cut it off from the middle. This way is comfortable to take to eat.

Related things
Since the vegetable pancake has become a convenient and delicious food on the street, some people see business opportunities in it. Song jun an was one of the representatives. He took vegetable pancakes from Zaozhuang, Shandong, China to other areas. He went through a lot before he formed his own independent vegetable pancake shop. However, his persistence and constant improvement of pancake made him a success. In some Chinese cities, he has opened his own food workshops.

In 2016, some stars like Zhu Dan, Sunny (singer) and Kim Hyo-yeon came to Zaozhuang to record the program， during which they learned how to make and tasted the food.