In the past, old Shanghai scallion pancakes were usually sold by hawker carts, and many Shanghainese would eat them for breakfast. It's not so much a snack as it carries memories of old Shanghai.
The traditional Shanghai scallion pancake is baked in the oven with puff pastry, smeared with pork fat, then sprinkled with chopped green onions, and rolled out repeatedly. It tastes crispy and fluffy, with a good sense of layering, and a hint of chewiness.
However, now in the eyes of many people, baking cakes in the dough and serving vegetable oil and green onions can be called scallion pancakes, in fact, this is the practice of scallion pancakes in the north, authentic Shanghai scallion pancakes are much more complicated, and it is precisely because the former is simple to almost foolish way, many Shanghai bakers began to imitate and be lazy, resulting in the decline of authentic Shanghai scallion pancakes.
