One steamed bun for the whole world, Tongguan Roujiamo is famous all over the world

Hong Kong Wen Wei Po News (Reporter Zhang Shizhen, Tongguan, Shaanxi Province)

"The peaks gather like a crowd, the waves rage like anger, the road of Tongguan lies between the mountains and the rivers." Tongguan County, located at the junction of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces and the confluence of the Yellow River, Wei River and Luo River, has been an important military, transportation, material and personnel exchange hub since the Shang Dynasty. Tongguan meat sandwich is its representative traditional delicacy. Since the early Tang Dynasty, for over a thousand years, generations of Tongguan meat sandwich artisans have passed on their skills, making this snack with its "crispy and Flaky Pastry, golden and crumbly, and its fatty meat that is not greasy and lean meat that is not tough" more and more popular.

As a renowned Chinese snack, the Tongguan Roujiamo has gained popularity both at home and abroad. "With the increasing fame of the Tongguan Roujiamo, the Tongguan Roujiamo industry has grown from a traditional one to a standardized, branded and large-scale rural pillar industry, becoming an important growth pole of the county's economy," said Wang Huafeng, president of the Tongguan Roujiamo Association and chairman of Shengtong Catering Management Co., Ltd. "Starting from Tongguan County, the Tongguan Roujiamo is transported to more than 20 countries and regions across five continents, achieving the local goal of 'supplying the whole country with one source of raw materials and exporting one piece of dough to the world'." It is understood that last year, Tongguan County sold a total of 700 million pieces of Roujiamo, with a direct output value of 1 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) and an indirect output value of 10 billion yuan.