Guangzhou, said Fried food is oil, including salty Zhagui (fritters), sweet ox-tongue pastry, smiling mouth jujube, salty-sweet and salty pancakes (incense oil cake) and so on. Among the most prestigious Johnson salty pancakes, also in the overseas Chinese in the world.

Johnson salty pancake with a distinctive color and unique flavor known for its creation of man in Guangzhou Longjin Road, Johnson's restaurant pastry chef Tan Zu. Salty pancakes system of law originated, Hong Hui oil cake, 1938, Tan Zu in flavor, heat in painstaking, and finally made good fresh, crispy, soft-hearted, crispy and delicious salty pancakes. Its materials used are wheat flour, soy sauce, sugar, brown sugar, curd, such as baking soda, fried in the fire with.

At that time, Guangzhou salty pancakes sold everywhere, and Johnson alone are not the taste and texture, so Johnson salty pancakes growing fame. In 1947, Vietnam returned overseas Chinese surnamed Zhao Guangzhou Johnson taste salty pancakes, full of praise. Li Sui before him, Johnson to buy a few salty pancake pan just picked up after sealing cans that fly back to Vietnam. As a result, after arriving home still crispy salty pancakes soft skills, people will see his family praise after tasting. The matter spread, Johnson salty pancakes became famous. In 1957, the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government held in Guangzhou dishes than the United States reviews, salty pancakes Johnson won the first point of the United States. This year, just turned 50-year-old Tan Zu master, received only 22-year-old Chen to make the best apprentice. But later due to lack of oil generation, Johnson salty pancake it will disappear from the scene until after the reform and opening up, only to reproduce radiance. Mid-1980s, the daily production of 400 Johnson salty pancakes, still in short supply.

Johnson made salty pancake distinguishes itself is the first to join the Southern raw milk to increase the flavor. But the use of curd, to be more worn and flavor enough. In the past, Master Tan will buy back the curd on the roof where half shade half sun, the sun came out, after the curd is heated, the sun, the heat gradually dispersed, after a hot and cold treatment process, South milk flavor better . Second, it uses a different sugar formulations. General salty pancakes, with sugar, flour, and Master Tan is the use of white sugar, brown sugar, half and half, the average weight off than doubled, its role is to: make it crispy white sugar, brown sugar reaches soft-hearted. Coupled with the fire fried, sugar amount, biting large oil, so the finished product crispy soften the special rosin.