Roll up your spring

It seems that every festival in China is celebrated with a certain food. We have moon cakes for the Mid-autumn Day and dumplings for the Spring Festival. Today is February 4, which marks the start of spring. What's the food for today?

Pancakes! Or more specifically, Spring Pancakes. You can either cook it by yourself to kill time or you can buy it in the supermarket to save time.

And it has to go with several dishes. But what exactly? Some suggest scrambled egg with leek–but some say just egg. And bamboo shoots according to some old sayings, or celery? It seems very hard to reach a consensus but don't worry, at least we've got three must-haves here: braised pork with soy sauce, stir-fried bean sprouts, and egg pancake–which I'm cutting into clumsy shreds.

Eating spring pancake is more or less the same as eating the Peking Duck, which means you've got to put everything on the pancake, and make a roll. But its history went far beyond the Duck back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (316AD－420AD), approximately 1600 years ago.

So bite it and not only will you get the whole prosperous spirit of spring but also a tangible feeling about being Chinese.

Script: Christie Lee

Filming: Lou Yi

Video Editing: Christie Lee

Special thanks to Mr. Wu Chuanjing