One of the most popular snack stalls in Shanghai has been shut down for operating without a license¹.

近日，上海人气最旺的小吃店之一因无照经营被关停。

It is not expected to reopen until the authorities decide how to handle the matter.

只有管理部门决定了如何处理这件事，它才有望重新营业。

The stall, running for over 30 years and specializing in the traditional scallion pancakes, has drawn² a huge number of fans who wait every day to buy them, even lining³ up before dawn.

这家经营了30多年的传统葱油饼店每天吸引大批粉丝等候购买，甚至天不亮就有人来排队。

The pancake was depicted⁴ as "deliciously crisp, doughy⁵ and very savory⁶" in a BBC documentary broadcast earlier this year.

今年早些时候播出的一部英国广播公司纪录片盛赞这家的葱油饼"外酥里嫩、十分美味"。

"No matter how popular it is, we can't give special privileges. We'll help the stall to operate legitimately," the department said in a written statement delivered to China Daily.

管理部门在一份发给《中国日报》的书面声明中表示：“无论它有多受欢迎，我们都不能给予其特权。我们要让该小吃店合法地经营。”

It's not the first time the stall has been at the center of controversy⁷. It was ordered to shut down in July after someone complained of the stall's kitchen exhaust in the building.

这家葱油饼店已不是第一次成为舆论争议的焦点。今年7月，因厨房在大楼里排放油烟被人投诉，该店曾被责令关停。

Customers unaware⁸ of the stall's closure continued to come last few days.

不知道这家小吃店已经关闭的消息的顾客这几天仍然会来到这里。

"Local snacks are usually a name card of a place and the taste of a hometown," said Zhong Peng, who works nearby and who bought the pancakes regularly. "But such low-profit businesses are disappearing in the waves of soaring real estate⁹ prices."

在附近工作并会定期购买葱油饼的钟鹏表示：“地方小吃通常是一个地方的名片，也是家乡的味道。但这种低利润的企业正在飙升的房地产价格的浪潮中逐渐消失。”