1, smoked tofu
Also known as "Confucius smoked tofu". Qufu smoked tofu is well-known at home and abroad, and it is a unique local traditional snack. Unique flavor and taste, cold, stir-fried, stewed, can be accompanied with wine. This kind of smoked tofu is not only loved by local people in Qufu, but also by foreigners in Qufu. It is said that there is a southern professor in Qufu Normal University who has been walking for miles to the market to eat smoked tofu for decades.
2, porridge soaked mutton
The most distinctive breakfast in Qufu is "mutton bread in soup". Mutton is cooked with various ingredients at home. The boss cuts off the parts you like according to the needs of customers. Some people like sheep liver, while others like to eat exquisite mutton. The boss sliced the mutton, then wrapped it in a paper, or took it home, or ate it at a stall.
Mutton is soaked in porridge, and porridge and mutton are imported together. Porridge is filled with delicious meat, and mutton has the aroma of rice porridge, so you can't taste the aroma of mutton at all. The best mutton porridge in Qufu belongs to Xiguan, and many people who have plenty of time in the morning love to rush to Xiguan for breakfast.
3. Confucius cakes
Confucius pastry, like Confucius banquet, is a unique pastry with a long history and passed down from generation to generation. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Confucius cakes were much better than those sold in Beijing at that time. Confucius' cakes are baked and eaten. They are good in color, fragrance and shape.
4. Qufu pancakes
Speaking of pancakes, people all know that they are a specialty of Shandong, and they have nurtured thousands of Qian Qian compatriots in Shandong. Especially in the hometown of Confucius (Qufu), Qufu pancakes have formed a feature, with thin skin and many fillings, crisp and delicious to eat and overflowing with fragrance.
5. Mutton soup
Mutton soup is mainly to put sheep bones (tube bones) into a large pot to boil soup, and then put the cut fresh mutton and cleaned mutton offal into the soup pot to boil. After cooking, fish it up and drain it, then slice it into boiling water, then pour it into a soup bowl, pour in boiling white mutton soup, sprinkle with green coriander and garlic sprouts, and a bowl of steaming mutton soup with overflowing fragrance. Sea pepper noodles, pepper noodles, salt and monosodium glutamate made of mutton soup.
6, hanging oven sesame seed cake
Hanging furnace sesame seed cake roll is one of the staple foods in Qufu, which is very distinctive and has local characteristics. Hanging furnace is the most distinctive. It is hung by a chain, and the other end of the chain is connected with a lever. If necessary, you can lift the hanging furnace with a lever.
7. Mutton porridge
The most distinctive breakfast in Qufu is mutton porridge. In front of many stalls selling fried dough sticks, there are mutton sellers. Porridge and fried dough sticks belong to the same family, but mutton is a separate boss. Mutton is cooked with various ingredients at home. The boss cut it according to the needs of customers, sprinkled it on hot porridge, and then soaked the meat in porridge.
8. Lu-style fairy duck
Fairy duck is a famous dish in Shandong with a long history. It is said to be a famous dish of Confucius in Ming Dynasty. This dish is complicated and strict, and takes a long time to steam. Eat it immediately after steaming to keep its flavor. In order to accurately grasp the steaming time, the old chefs use the method of burning incense and timing to start burning incense before the duck is steamed, and the three incense sticks are burned together, so that it can be cooked.
4. Confucian cuisine
Confucian cuisine is an important part of China's food culture, which originated in the first year of Bao. It is specially prepared for receiving distinguished guests, inauguration, birthdays, weddings, funerals and happy birthdays.
The banquet in Confucius' house follows the rank of monarch, minister and son, and the specifications are different. Because of the special position of Confucius in the feudal dynasty, it was preserved and was the official dish of the Qianlong period.
10, Phoenix shark fin
Phoenix shark's fin is one of the most famous traditional dishes in Qufu, Shandong Province, which belongs to Confucian cuisine. Features: exquisite selection of materials, beautiful appearance, crisp and delicious chicken, rosy shark fin color and mellow sauce.