In Slow Food Capital: A Compendium of Tainan ’ s Xiaochi, Wang Haoyi, a writer on cultural and historical topics, points out that in 1661, when the Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) established a foothold in Tainan and battled the Dutch, his forces, due to a shortage of grains, had to find food locally.
文史工作者王浩一在《慢食府城 — — 台南小吃的古早味全記錄》中指出，1661 年鄭成功率軍登陸台南與荷蘭軍隊交戰期間，因糧食不足而就地取材。