In the early 1950s, during the recession of Taiwan, people were suffering from poverty and lack daily necessities, such as oil, salt, flour, and milk powder, which all had to depend on international assistance. During those difficult days, people cooked with the simplest ingredients they could find. Therefore, people came up with this certain dish, egg-shaped cakes, with adding the remaining flour to the eggs, water and some salt, stir well, and fry on the charcoal oven.

Since then, the egg sellers started make these cakes when they accidentally broke some eggs during the egg delivery in order not to waste this precious goods at that time. After baking these cakes, the sellers would then sell them in crowded places, such as outside of the train station, temples, markets and schools.

Flavor Transformation

• Besides a twist in shapes, there are more and more ingredients are stuffed into the cakes to create a variety of flavors for customers to choose from. You'll never have to worry about the combination of these ingredients, because they won't let you down but take your taste bud a level up!

• Flavors often include chocolate, cheese, salted-egg, mochi, or even oreo.