He has been making spring onion pancakes since he was 28 years old. He has made an average of 400 pancakes everyday for the past 32 years. If you were to place the pancakes end to end, it is equivalent to the distance from Shanghai to Taipei.

People yearning for a bite of his pancakes queue in front of the stall regardless of the weather, winter or summer, rainy or shine. “It’s hard for A Da to make the pancakes and then for us to have one,” said the first customer in the line, coming all the way from the city’s Xujiahui area.