Drop-dregs Cake of Tujia

Tujia Drop-dregs Cake is also known as Enshi Tujia  Cake. Over a century ago, when a group of migrants came to settle in  Enshi, Hubei Province, where the Tujia ethnic group inhabited, the  recipe of a cake variety was introduced to them. In accordance with  their own diet habit, the Tujia people created a cake of their own  distinct features – they had the cake surface covered with scattered  stuffing. Their new recipe was widely spread all over China, and these  cakes become indispensable to the Tujia and Miao ethnic groups in Enshi.
It is a female college student from Wuhan who made the Tujia  Drop-dregs Cake extremely famous. As a native of Tujia Autonomous  Prefecture in Enshi, Hubei, She is quite fond of the cakes cooked by her  grandmother from childhood. Her grandmother’s cakes were so impressive  that she thought it might become a “hot cake” in Wuhan. Therefore, she  tried almost all means to raise enough money and finally started her  first shop of Tujia cakes in Wuhan. At that time, there was a popular  saying among Chinese youth – “shuai dao diaozha” (diaozha means drop  dregs), namely, “you are extremely handsome”. This saying was quite  similar to the characteristics of Tujia cake: when people are eating the  cake, some of the stuffing is easy to drop. Thus the student borrowed  the last two Chinese characters from the popular saying and renamed her cake  “diaozha’er” (drop-dregs cake). That’s the origin of the cake’s name.