(1) Qilu flavor, represented by jinan cuisine, prevails in northern Shandong, Tianjin and Hebei.
Qilu cuisine is famous for its fragrance, tenderness and pure taste. One dish is blindly followed, but a hundred dishes are not heavy. Especially for making soup, there are strict regulations on the use and boiling of clear soup and milk soup, and the dishes are famous for their freshness, crispness and tenderness. It is a major feature of jinan cuisine to make soup. Sweet and sour carp, Kung Pao Chicken (Shandong style), Jiuzhuan large intestine, crispy soup, Pu Cai in milk soup, Nan Chang, Yuji braised chicken and Jinan roast duck are all well-known Jinan dishes. The famous flavor snacks in Jinan are: pot stickers, soup packets, silk cakes, sugar cakes, rohan cakes, money cakes, steamed honey cakes, dumplings and so on.
Dezhou cuisine is also an important part of Qilu flavor, and the representative dishes are Dezhou boneless braised chicken.
(2) Jiaoliao flavor, also known as Jiaodong flavor, is represented by Qingdao cuisine. Popular in Jiaodong, Liaodong and other places.
Jiaoliao cuisine originated from Fushan, Yantai and Qingdao. It is good at cooking seafood, with fresh and tender taste, light taste and exquisite color. Ten representative dishes in Qingdao: minced sea cucumber, crispy chicken, home-cooked fish with sliced teeth, stewed chicken with Laoshan mushroom, abalone with original shell, fish balls with hot and sour taste, fried oyster yellow, oil-fried conch, stewed cabbage with prawns, and stewed tofu with yellow croaker. Top Ten Special Snacks in Qingdao: Roasted Squid, Sauced Pig's Feet, Three Fresh Pot Sticks, Chinese Cabbage Meat Bag, Spicy Fried Clams, Seafood Noodles, Rib Rice, BayuDumplings, Seaweed Bean Curd, Chicken Soup Chaos.
(3) Confucian flavor, represented by Qufu cuisine. Popular in southwestern Shandong and Henan, it is close to Xuzhou in Jiangsu cuisine.
Confucian cuisine has the characteristics of "never tired of eating fine food, never tired of eating fine food", and its fine and extensive materials and rich banquets are comparable to those of imperial meals moved to imperial palaces in the past. And the Huaiyang flavor in Jiangsu cuisine is called "national cuisine". Representatives of Confucian cuisine include: Yipin Shoutao, Emerald Shrimp Ring, Dried Pearl Bamboo Shoots, Fried Chicken Fan, Bird's Nest, Baked Brand, Chrysanthemum Shrimp Bag, Yipin Tofu, Shouzi Duck Soup, and Silk-cut Golden Dates.