Renowned scallion pancakes set to reappear soon
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THE popular Ada Scallion Pancake store is to reopen soon.
After being suspended for two weeks due to the lack of a license, a local online food-delivery company yesterday offered to sponsor Wu Gencun, the owner, in finding and setting up a licensed store.
Wu has reached an agreement with the firm to reopen near his original store on Maoming Road S., the market supervision and management bureau of Huangpu District said.
“I will keep making the scallion pancake personally with traditional skills to ensure the flavor as well as the food safety,” Wu said. The 59-year-old owner said his pancake price would remain at 5 yuan (74 US cents) each.
The food delivery company, Ele.me, has begun looking for suitable store for Wu and will subsidize him while he applies for a license and gets his new business off the ground.
The traditional scallion pancake store was suspended last month by the bureau because Wu did not have a license for the business he had opened in the backyard of his home.
Wu has made his renowned pancake for the past three decades and he has attracted many expatriate customers as well as foreign tourists after the BBC interviewed him for a documentary “Taste of Shanghai.”
The suspension sparked widespread debate on the Internet with many people imploring Wu to reopen, though others supported the government’s efforts to shut down an illegal catering business.
The bureau has been helping Wu to find a solution to enable him to reopen legally, said an official with the bureau.
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