Jinan is the capital city of Shandong, so their food there is basically Shandong cuisine. Shandong cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China, so there are still many delicious foods in Jinan.

The most famous one is Jiuzhuan large intestine in Jinan. After nine turns, the large intestine is fat but not greasy, and the mouth melts. At the end of the meal, there is some unique chewing feeling of the large intestine. What impressed me most about Jinan cuisine is this nine-turn large intestine.

The reason why Jiuzhuan large intestine is fat but not greasy is because it contains hawthorn. Hawthorn is an important medicinal material. Its function is to remove oil and greasy, and it can play a role in losing weight if eaten regularly. So when you put hawthorn in the large intestine for nine turns, you suck up all the oil in the large intestine. Only the outer skin of the large intestine is left, which is chewy, soft and waxy and rich in taste.

Moreover, after adding hawthorn, the foul smell in the large intestine was also removed. Eat with the prepared juice, and you can't eat the feeling of large intestine at all. In addition to the nine turns of the large intestine, there is also a kind of delicious food called oil swirl in Jinan.

Oil swirl is actually a kind of bread baked with oil, but this bread has many layers. After baking, you can see the layers of bread. These layers look like a spiral. The oil swirl is crisp and delicious, and the salt is moderate. With tofu pudding, you can have breakfast, and with vegetables, you can have lunch, which is very convenient to eat.

There is also sweet foam, which is actually a soup-like food made of millet flour. Although it is called sweet foam, it is not sweet but salty. Chopped green onion, vegetable leaves and salt are also added to the sweet foam. Sweet foam is the best for breakfast, similar to the batter we eat in the north. But the batter in our north is sweet. In contrast, I prefer to eat salty and sweet foam.

Of course, there are many delicious foods and snacks in Jinan, and the above three kinds of foods are not available elsewhere. In addition to these kinds, there are many Jinan snacks that have been popular in many cities, such as fried kidney flowers, jar meat, bazi meat and so on.