What are the unique features of Qingdao food culture?

Qingdao is rich in precious sea cucumber, scallop, abalone, conch, prawn and Cargill fish, which determines the characteristics of Qingdao cooking with seafood as the main raw material. The traditional banquets in Qingdao have certain specifications, such as "4 16" and "428". The order of serving requires cold before hot, salty before sweet, and there must be fish at each table; No sea cucumber is not a big meal. So what are the characteristics of Qingdao's food culture? Next, let's learn more about Qingdao's food culture characteristics! Cuisine is the crystallization of Chinese national food culture, a food culture and a regional culture. Qingdao is the hometown of Shandong cuisine, which is an important branch of Shandong cuisine. The biggest feature of Qingdao cuisine is that it is good at cooking seafood dishes, and the cooking techniques are diverse, but the techniques of "explosion, frying, roasting and steaming" are the most advantageous. At the same time, dishes should pay attention to maintain the umami flavor of the main ingredients, and the taste is mainly fresh and light. Furthermore, the use of clear soup and milk soup in cooking is the soul of Shandong cuisine. Qingdao cuisine is good at locking the original flavor of raw materials with soup, keeping the nutritional components of the dishes, salty and elegant, refreshing and pure, which really makes people memorable. This is the characteristic of Shandong cuisine. As far as the development status of Qingdao's food culture is concerned, it generally presents the following characteristics:

First, brand-name snacks have a unique flavor and become a beautiful landscape.

As the main carrier of food culture, "snacks" represent the overall characteristics and cultural traditions of a city, and also reflect the connotation of a city's cultural life. It is one of the symbols of a city's food culture and the main propaganda means to improve a city's popularity and competitiveness. For example, Chongqing's "hot pot", Beijing's "roast duck" and Lanzhou's "beef Lamian Noodles" all reflect the local characteristics and cultural traditions of a city from different aspects. As a highlight of Qingdao's food culture, Qingdao famous brand snacks are promoting the development and prosperity of Qingdao's food culture with great influence, fully demonstrating the characteristics of Qingdao's urban food culture. The snacks in Qingdao make people feel quite generous. For example, drinking beer and eating clams can give them a vision. According to market research, in recent years, there are many kinds of specialty snacks and snack bars, including 354 light snack bars, 232 light snack bars and 1 19 light snack bars. The special snacks in Qingdao mainly include: 1. Qingdao seafood wonton is a famous specialty snack in island city fast food industry. There are many kinds of wonton, including seafood king wonton, pork wonton, shrimp wonton and other brands. Since 1993, Dawang Wonton has received more than 3 million Chinese and foreign tourists. 2. Qingdao Liuting pig's trotters won the title of "Qingdao Famous Food" and won the first place in similar products in domestic consumer goods activities loved by Qingdao youth. "Fu Sheng" trotters have won customers' recognition and praise for their unique quality, and are known as "the first hoof in the world". 3. Qingdao fried dumpling, delicious, is a veritable snack in the island city, and was rated as "famous snack in Shandong Province", "famous snack in China" and "famous snack in China". 4. Qingdao Wanhechun Pork Pot Rice, with exquisite materials, fine production, unique flavor and low price, is deeply loved by customers. In 2002, it was recognized as a "famous trademark of Shandong Province" and named as "Qingdao Special Snacks". 5. Sanxian steamed dumplings, with fine stuffing selection and strict production and processing standards, are characterized by flexible dough, thin skin and many fillings, fresh flavor and rich juice, fragrant but not greasy. 1997 12 won the honor of "China Famous Snack" recognized by the Ministry of Trade and China Cuisine Association. In addition, there are beef soup buns, raw clams, sea bean curd, prawn steamed dumplings and so on in Xiaohonglou, which are all special snacks developed from different angles in combination with the regional characteristics of the island city, showing the prosperity and glory of Qingdao's food culture.

At the same time, Qingdao also holds many cultural activities in the name of snacks every year, such as sifang district Haiyun 'an Sugar Ball Club, Shibei Yuanxiao Mountain Club, Radish Club and red island clam Festival. They all dig deep into folk food culture from different levels, highlight the characteristics of Qingdao snacks, reflect the knowledge and style of Qingdao people, enrich the cultural life of the masses, and make remarkable achievements. At present, in order to let more citizens and tourists taste delicious and popular Qingdao snacks, Qingdao is learning from some practices in Nanjing, setting up local snack streets, adopting low-priced little seafood, such as clams, eel and oysters, and researching innovative cooking methods from popular raw materials, so as to make Qingdao snacks more distinctive and accepted by more people.

Qingdao snacks have also formed the following characteristics:

1, characteristics of fried clams with spicy sauce: it was not very spicy at first, and the spicy taste gradually penetrated, which was very memorable.

2, seaweed jelly features: homemade jelly is the best. In addition to being refreshing, you can also eat a trace of umami of frozen vegetables. Mixing rice vinegar is particularly appetizing and frozen powder is not easy to make, which ensures elasticity.

3, kebab (squid) characteristics: full of color and flavor, tender meat, "biting the head", grilled squid is expensive to master in the heat, more old, less raw.

4, sauce trotters characteristics: the old sauce soup that has been stewed for many years is thick and fragrant, stewed just right, separated from flesh and blood, rotten and chewy, not greasy.

5. Features of BayuWan: It tastes fresh and the dumpling stuffing is very elastic. Filling with leeks or coriander will have different flavors.

6. Features of Sanxian Pot Sticker: The quality of "skin" represents the skill of Sanxian Pot Sticker, and it is best to taste fragrant but not greasy.

7. Characteristics of Chinese cabbage meat buns: delicious, long-lasting but not greasy. Chinese cabbage with fresh meat is fresh and smooth, with meat and vegetables, and has a unique taste.

8. Features of seafood noodles: the entrance of noodles is flexible and smooth, with outstanding seafood flavor and bright color. If there is no broth at home, you can use chicken powder instead, and it is best to use handmade noodles.

9, chicken soup wonton features: fresh but not greasy, pure taste, better taste after adding coriander.

10, ribs rice features: ribs are delicious, tender and smooth, neither firewood nor greasy, the soup is moderately salty, and the mixed rice tastes good.

Secondly, seafood has become a banner of Qingdao food culture and a beautiful "city card" of Qingdao.

Seafood, as a city card, well interprets and develops the food culture characteristics of Qingdao. At present, Qingdao is using seafood as a medium to attract more foreign tourists, so that they can enjoy delicious seafood in Qingdao and feel the food culture in Qingdao.

Qingdao is rich in precious sea cucumber, scallop, abalone, conch, prawn and Cargill, which determines the characteristics of Qingdao cooking with seafood as the main raw material. The traditional banquets in Qingdao have certain specifications, such as "4 16" and "428". The order of serving requires cold before hot, salty before sweet, and there must be fish at each table; No sea cucumber is not a big meal. According to the market survey, there are 1 13 restaurants famous for seafood in Qingdao. Qingdao cuisine has become a characteristic branch of Shandong cuisine. Qingdao special dishes made of high-grade raw materials such as sea cucumber, abalone and prawn, such as "roasted sea cucumber with minced meat", "abalone with original shell", "shrimp with brine" and "brother-in-law's shark's fin", have greatly improved the taste of Qingdao food culture and promoted the development of food culture and economy and society. Mr. Gao Bingyi, a famous culinary master and honorary president of Qingdao Hotel and Cuisine Association, made a reasonable and selective excavation, summary and research on fishermen's diet, and made artistic transformation with modern cooking theory and technology. He integrated the food varieties, eating habits and ways of Qingdao farmers and fishermen, and launched a "fisherman's banquet" featuring "fresh" and "earth". All dishes are mainly selected from little seafood with local characteristics, and the dishes are classic. Later, the "Fisherman's Banquet" was rated as "Famous Banquet of Shandong Cuisine" by Qingdao Tourism Bureau and designated as the signboard of Qingdao tourism.

Thirdly, food and beverage streets are criss-crossed, with reasonable layout, which complement each other with commercial streets and show the prosperity of modern urban food culture.

Qingdao, as a cooperative city of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, has developed rapidly in economy and culture in recent years. At the same time, Qingdao Municipal Government attaches great importance to the development of catering culture, actively promotes the construction of catering leisure street, food street and beer culture street, and promotes the development of catering culture in Qingdao as the "sailing capital". Minjiang Road is located in the east of Shinan District and intersects with Xiao Yun Road Food Street. It starts from Nanjing Road in the west and ends at Yanerdao Road in the east, with a length of about 1.800 meters. There are about 300 shops of all kinds, including more than 80 restaurants. This is a professional street featuring catering, leisure and entertainment. More than 50 restaurants in the western section, such as Sanbao porridge shop, tea garden porridge shop, Zhuang Mama shop and old brick village hotel, mainly focus on catering; In the east, bars, cafes, teahouses, KTV and other outlets are mainly for leisure and entertainment. Since 1999, the municipal government has incorporated Xiao Yun Road into the planning and development of snack street, and Xiao Yun Road Food Street has developed rapidly, with more than 60 restaurants. Beer Culture Street, located in Dengzhou Road, Shibei District, is also developing very rapidly. Now there are about 50 shops of various types, including more than 20 hotels, beer shops and restaurants. There are also Xinzhan Snack Street, Haibo Folk Food Street, Haiyun 'an Folk Snack City, Qingdao Hotel Pichai Yuan Snack Street, Damaidao Seafood City, Huiquan Snack Street, Chang 'an Food Street, etc. , which brings together various flavors and becomes a paradise for gourmets. According to market survey statistics, there are 1854 restaurants in Qingdao, including 87 restaurants in Shinan District, 488 restaurants in Shibei District, 2 restaurants in sifang district110, Licang District10/0, Laoshan District/. These restaurants and food streets not only meet the consumption and leisure needs of the surrounding residents, but also promote economic prosperity. They have become a good place for citizens to improve their consumption level, taste fresh and delicious food and get together with relatives and friends, which has greatly promoted the development of Qingdao's food culture.

Fourthly, western food has sprung up as a new bright spot, adding vitality to the development of Qingdao food culture.

As an internationally renowned characteristic city and excellent tourist city, Qingdao has frequent economic and cultural exchanges with foreign countries and attracts a large number of domestic and foreign tourists for sightseeing every year. Foreign tourists not only bring excellent foreign food traditions, but also bring different food cultures and eating habits. According to market research, there are 67 western-style restaurants in Qingdao, such as KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Villa French Restaurant and Lisa Mediterranean Restaurant. Hamburgers, pizzas, French fries and various western-style cakes have become the favorite of most young people. As representatives of western food culture, they pay attention to food science, nutrition and dining hygiene, which has become a favorable supplement to Qingdao food culture and promoted the improvement and perfection of Qingdao food culture. Nowadays, KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut and other chain stores can be seen in the main streets and business districts of Qingdao. They are spreading western food culture and promoting economic and cultural exchanges among countries all over the world. At the same time, they also occupy a part of the Qingdao food market, impacting and influencing the local food in Qingdao. Nowadays, Qingdao's culinary masters have to "pulse" the development of Qingdao catering industry and Qingdao specialty dishes every year. They pay attention to absorbing the essence of western food culture, developing and perfecting Qingdao food, and promoting China traditional food culture.

Fifth, the deficiencies of Qingdao cuisine are lack of brand awareness, single variety of cuisine, weak competitiveness and insufficient human resources, which have affected the development of food culture to a higher level.

As an important part of Qingdao urban culture, food culture has also contributed to the harmonious development of Qingdao urban culture. But there are also some shortcomings. Generally speaking, Qingdao cuisine still lacks brand awareness, national famous dishes and memorable brands. It only highlights seafood, shows the characteristics of Shandong cuisine, and does not create the overall advantages of Qingdao food culture. In this way, it lacks core competitiveness in the process of competition with other cuisines, thus affecting the development of Qingdao food culture to a higher level. At the same time, the lack of a group of senior professionals to master Qingdao's food culture can not be a good inheritance and dissemination of food culture. There are few experts and scholars specializing in food culture in Qingdao universities, and there is no perfect training and management system for food culture professionals, which makes the development of Qingdao food culture lack internal motivation and vitality.