Sweet and sour carp is a dish based on carp, which is a traditional famous dish in Jinan, Shandong Province. "Ji Zhi" records that "there are carp in the Yellow River and crab in Nanyang in the recipe". Jinan is close to the Yellow River, and the carp in the Yellow River are tender, delicious and beautiful. This is a holiday delicacy at the banquet. The production method of sweet and sour carp is to marinate carp with a flower knife, then size it, fry the crispy skin with hot oil, and finally boil the sweet and sour juice and pour it on. Shandong cuisine pays attention to pure seasoning, fresh, tender, fragrant and crisp. It pays special attention to the preparation of clear soup and milk soup. It is good at seasoning with onion flavor, and cooking seafood is also unique.

The real Weiyang cuisine is salt merchant cuisine, called literati cuisine, which is a cuisine created by Yangzhou salt merchants because of their luxurious life. Recently, before sorting out Yangzhou salt merchants' recipes, it was found that there were tens of thousands of dishes in the recipes. The banquet in the red chamber and the banquet in Yangzhou are the highest level of cooking, not one or two dishes such as lion's head, boiled dried silk and fried soft pockets. Yangzhou is recognized as the world's birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine, and a kind of fried rice in Yangzhou has become famous. Yangzhou was first given the gourmet capital by the World Cuisine Association, and was awarded the gourmet capital of the world last year.