The most direct way to remember a city is probably the beautiful scenery and delicious food.
Each of these characteristic old shops in Jinan has a unique taste,
I hope these delicacies will allow you to taste the stories of old Jinan.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—straw buns
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have eaten the fourth from the bottom!
The ingredients are carefully selected, the workmanship is exquisite, the ingredients are rich and distinctive, the taste is mellow, and there are many varieties of colors. The most distinctive thing is that it is packaged in lotus leaves. With the title of Jinan Donghexiliu, it is natural that it is named the first specialty snack in Jinan! It can be said that it is not only a kind of food, but also a kind of culture.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Meng’s Braised Hoof
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Meng's hooves are soft and fragrant, delicate and rosy in color, the meat is rotten off the bones but the skin is intact, and the taste is mellow and fragrant. It's not a big shop but its business is booming. It has a limited quota every day. If you arrive late, you'll have to queue up and often can't buy anything!
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Mingshi Duo Roasted Whole Lamb
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
No. 26, Jingsanweijiu Road, Jinan. "One of the top ten famous foods in Quancheng", it became famous in the late Qing Dynasty. We select 1-year-old green goat from Liangshan and roast it with the secret recipe handed down from our ancestors, maintaining the original flavor and excellent color, aroma and flavor.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Bangzirou
Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Jinan’s famous food. Jinan's Baozi meat emphasizes the important role of soy sauce and does not add salt. It is to select fat or lean pork, cut it into long strips, tie it into a handful with hemp rope, cook it, and then stew it in soy sauce. The highlight of the meat is that the presence of fat can produce a good taste that is fat but not greasy. Although the pork belly is cooked with thick oil and red sauce, it is not salty and is perfect for rice. The combination of one bite of rice and one bite of meat just brings out the aroma of rice and meat.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—jar meat
Among the top ten specialty snacks in Jinan, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Jinan’s traditional snacks. It began in the Qing Dynasty, and it is said that the creator of this product was Jinan Fengjilou Hotel. The chef of the restaurant uses pork ribs, seasonings and fragrant rice, puts them into a small black enamel jar, and simmers them over charcoal over low heat. The pork is crispy but not losing its shape, the taste is fat but not greasy, the color is ruddy and bright, and the taste has a unique aroma.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Pucai in milk soup
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Jinan Daming Lake produces a kind of fresh and fresh cattail leaf as the main ingredient, and is cooked with milk soup. It is known as "the best soup in Jinan" and has always been known as "the best soup in Jinan". It is known as the first soup dish in Jinan. . Pucai in milk soup is a famous dish of Yanxitang, but it was later lost due to poor management of Yanxitang.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—youxuan
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Youxuan, a specialty of Jinan, is crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and fragrant with green onions. It is named Youxuan because of its spiral shape and oily and golden surface. People in Jinan mostly eat fried spinach while it's hot, paired with a bowl of shredded chicken wontons. It's high quality and cheap, and it's wonderful. There are two types of oil spindles: round and oval. The more sophisticated ones are to poke a hole in the oil after the oil has matured, crack in an egg, and then bake it in the oven for a while. The egg and oil will become one, making the food even more beautiful.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Jinan’s famous barbecue
Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Speaking of Jinan, we have to talk about its barbecue. From summer to winter, from urban areas to suburbs, all kinds of barbecues shroud the spring city in a layer of smoke on summer nights, and The gangsters who are old Jinan people are eating meat and drinking wine, and they are very happy. BBQ is pretty much the same. In recent years, grilled lamb legs and other forms have been added, but eating skewers is still the mainstream.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Liangliang Ramen
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Its characteristic is that it is made from fresh pig elbow meat and elbow bones with spices. It uses deep-fried Sichuan red peppers and spices to make hot sauce. It is made with special special flour. It has the characteristics of refreshing soup, soft meat, red spicy oil, green coriander, and flexible noodles. Therefore, it has the reputation of "spicy and delicious soup" and "smooth texture" of noodles.
And it can pull out seven different types of noodles, including large wide, two wide, Feiye wide, one thick, two thin, three capillary and buckwheat noodle. Pay attention to one (soup) clear, two ( Noodles) are yellow, three (chili oil) are red, and four (coriander) are green. Authentic ingredients, strong ramen, the store is small but often crowded. I want to serve a plate of elbow meat, a bowl of noodles, some coriander and some vinegar.
Jinan’s specialty snacks—Tianmo
Among Jinan’s top ten specialty snacks, you must have tasted the fourth from the bottom!
Tianmo is a traditional popular porridge food in Jinan. It is a salty porridge mainly cooked with millet noodles. Jinan people also commonly call it "five-spice sweet foam". Among the many snacks in Jinan, Tianmo is the most affordable and high-quality "signature" famous snack.
When you wake up in the morning, fried dough sticks are just as sweet as this and are the most common breakfast for Jinan people