Culinary culture is one of the important cultural characteristics of a city and one of the most important factors to attract tourists and foreigners. Although every city has its own culinary culture, some cities have become culinary deserts for various reasons, lacking in distinctive local cuisine. In my opinion, Tianjin, a city on the northern coast, is a typical culinary desert.

While Tianjin is located in the north of China, its food culture is different from the traditional northern cuisine due to the influence of the climate as well as historical reasons. Specialty dining is almost non-existent; most are similar-looking snack vendors with less than unique flavors, and there are few local specialties that represent Tianjin. Compared with other cities, Tianjin's food culture lacks representativeness, making it difficult to represent northern food culture and build its own identity.

In addition to the lack of representative specialty dishes, Tianjin's food culture also has various problems. First, the market is filled with a large number of fast-food chains and snack vendors, but it is difficult to find high-quality dining venues. While some vendors have good taste, there are often problems with hygiene, especially during the tourist season, and various food hygiene problems occur from time to time.

Secondly, the Tianjin municipal government has not done enough to support the local restaurant culture. The local government has been working hard to promote tourism and plans to build a famous tourist city, but it has done far from enough to support the culinary culture, which has made the development of the local catering industry slow and made it difficult to form its own specialties.

In short, Tianjin's culinary culture currently lacks representativeness and is developing slowly due to a lack of high-quality dining venues in the market and insufficient government support for culinary culture. To solve this problem, it is necessary for the government, businesses and consumers*** to work together to promote the development of the local food and beverage industry, to promote food culture with local characteristics, and to promote the construction of a convenient food and beverage environment, so that the city can be more competitive in attracting tourists and investors. Only in this way can Tianjin gradually get rid of the title of culinary desert and become one of the important representative cities of food culture in northern China.