Shandong cuisine, also known as Shandong cuisine, is the first of the four major cuisines in China. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, it has a long-standing reputation and is a representative of northern cuisine. In the Yuan Dynasty, Shandong cuisine began to enter the court and became the main body of imperial cuisine. It is characterized by exquisite color, mellow but not greasy, fresh and delicious, crisp and tender. The representative dish is sweet and sour yellow river carp. It is characterized by amber yellow croaker, tender outside and sweet, sour, salty and fragrant.

ten classic Shandong dishes: Dezhou paji, braised prawns, Jiuzhuan large intestine, pear ball clear soup with honey sauce, willow leaf swallowwort, Four Joy Meetballs, jar meat, sweet and sour carp, yipin tofu, and crispy oil.

tomato with soy sauce

tomato with soy sauce is made of black hard eggplant, which is ground off by burning bricks, squeezed out of tomato juice, salted, squeezed out of salt water, put into a fresh sweet jar, and fished out after half a month. Its taste is fragrant, tender and memorable.

Cucumber wrapped in sauce

Cucumber wrapped in sauce is made of immature tender melon, with lettuce, cucumber, peanut kernel, walnut kernel, melon seed kernel, almond, lotus root, Gracilaria lemaneiformis, crystal sugar, orange cake, and green silk as stuffing. It is crisp and fragrant, and the sauce is rich.

Sweet and sour carp

Sweet and sour carp is one of the famous dishes in Jinan. The chef picked up the live fish, cleaned it up on the spot, fried the fish, put it on a plate, and poured the boiled sweet and sour juice while it was hot. The whole fish was amber, tender outside, crisp and sweet, and quite elegant. Now, all the hotels in Jinan have this dish. However, the production of "Jinsanbei" restaurant, which won the title of national super restaurant, is superior.

Pu Cai in milk soup

Pu Cai in milk soup is a fresh, tender, white and fragrant Pu Cai produced in Daming Lake, Jinan. It is cooked with cauliflower, mushrooms and milk soup, and has always been praised as the first soup in Jinan.

Dashun Banquet

Dashun Banquet is one of the special banquets designed and developed by Jinan Shungeng Mountain Villa according to the historical records of "Shun Geng Yu Lishan", combined with the food specialty raw materials in Jinan area and using the cooking techniques of Shandong cuisine. The whole banquet has strong local characteristics and simple ancient heritage. The theme and connotation of Dashun Banquet is to put the whole banquet in a peaceful and auspicious atmosphere based on the meaning and implication of Phoenix totem, so that guests can feel a kind of classical and simple beauty while enjoying antique and even delicious food full of original cooking charm. The menu design of Dashun Banquet consists of four parts: fruit, cold meat, hot food and pastry. The fruits are mainly varieties that have existed in China since ancient times, which fully shows the rich labor achievements of China ancestors. Cold meat dishes are composed of a phoenix platter and eight small platters of auspicious birds, which symbolizes the prosperity of the Chinese nation. All the hot dishes and pastries in the banquet have a touching historical allusion and legend; Cooking dishes, pay attention to using modern cooking techniques to show the ancient cooking style; The raw materials are mainly from China, but in the compatibility of dishes, we strive to show the ancient by borrowing the present, so that the ancient primitive eating style has a scientific and prosperous connotation. The whole banquet is magnificent, rough and elegant, antique and novel. Although a table of Dashun banquet is not enough to show Dashun's great achievements in slash-and-burn cultivation, hunting birds and beasts, and being virtuous, it can inspire people to remember the nostalgia of Chinese ancestors from this dish, a cup, a lamp and a drink, so as to appreciate the profound connotation and broad meaning of Dashun culture.

The soup is crispy and crispy

The soup has been crispy and crispy for more than 1 years. This dish is mainly made of pork tripe and chicken, and cooked with clear soup. Because the main ingredient is tender and brittle, it is named "double crisp".

You Xuan

You Xuan is a traditional fine flavor snack in Jinan. Because it looks like a spiral and its surface is golden yellow, it is named oil swirl. Its outer skin is crisp, the inner pulp is soft, and the onion smells through the nose. It is said that Jinan's oil came from Nanjing more than 1 years ago by the three Xu brothers in Qihe County. In order to adapt to the taste of Jinan people, they improved the ingredients, and the taste became salty and fragrant, which was popular with customers and their business was very prosperous. They were called "Xujiayu". Later, many restaurants were widely imitated and became Jinan-style snacks.

characteristics: golden color, crisp outside and tender inside, loose layers, strong onion oil flavor, better with wonton.

fried dumpling

fried dumpling is a kind of stuffing snack, which is exquisitely made and delicious. It is usually made of pork stuffing and served with different fresh vegetables according to seasons. When wrapping, the stuffing is generally half and half, showing the shape of a moon bud. The bottom of the pot stickers is dark yellow, crisp, soft and tough, and the stuffing is delicious.

wucheng "spinning cake"

spinning cake is a traditional famous point in wucheng, Shandong province. Legend has it that in the spring of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing and passed through Wucheng. Smelling the fragrance, he dismounted and led his entourage into a small pie shed. After a full meal, he watched the pie maker's spinning skills with great interest and said, "You are holding the pie sign. Don't you think this is a spinning pie?" Therefore, Wucheng Spinning Cake got its name. Wucheng Spinning Cake has excellent materials, superior flour and lean meat, and its production is more exquisite. The dough should be soft and hard according to the different temperatures of the four seasons, and kneaded repeatedly. The stuffing is pork, mutton, beef, and egg, which is as thick as a finger and as big as a plate. The color is brown and shiny, the skin is crispy and crisp, the stuffing is soft and tender, fat but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, and the more you eat it, the more fragrant it is.

wonton with shredded chicken soup

wonton is a traditional snack in Jinan with a long history. There are many ways to eat, and according to the different ingredients, there are different names. There are clear soup, stock, shredded chicken, sesame sauce, three fresh wonton, etc. In the south, there are also people who put the cooked noodles in a soup bowl, put wonton on it, and decorate it with some Chinese cabbage, which is called "Wonton Noodles". Wonton is made all over the country, but Jinan is the best. In the old days, wonton was the main variety of Jinan supper. In the modern times, there were many shops that operated wonton, including XingshengchengNo. Wonton Restaurant and QingyunNo. Wonton Restaurant, and there was also a famous restaurant that fried wonton arbitrarily in the area of Zhasi Street. The wrapped raw wonton was fried into golden brown in big oil, crispy outside and tender inside, which was delicious. Wonton with hemp juice is similar to rice flour with hemp juice. It is a seasonal food in summer in Jinan in the old days by cooling the cooked wonton or soaking it in cold water and adding spices such as hemp juice. Nowadays, restaurants specializing in making wonton are rare. The famous "Yifa Wonton Restaurant" in the early years has closed down, and there are many individual wonton stalls, but the flavor is not good.

characteristics: the soup is clear and mellow, with tender stuffing and thin and smooth skin. It tastes better with crispy sesame cakes and oil whirls.

Yucheng braised chicken

Shandong famous Yucheng spiced braised chicken has a history of nearly a hundred years. It is famous for its unique production, spiced flavor, rotten meat and rich nutrition, and has been appreciated by customers at home and abroad.

Features: beautiful appearance, fragrant smell, rotten meat and bones, unbroken threads, fat but not greasy, delicious taste and lingering fragrance.

flavor snack

clear oil silk cake

the reason why clear oil silk cake is called "clear oil" is that it is fried and branded with peanut oil relative to meat oil. "Coiling silk" is the modeling feature of this cake. It is a kind of fine flour food developed on the basis of pulled noodles. When making, the noodles are extremely fine, as thin as silver wire, reaching more than a thousand pieces, then rolled into a round cake shape, half-fried and half-branded in oil to make it cooked. Then, lift the cake in the middle, spread it on the plate, and sprinkle with green and red silk and sugar. The silk cake is tender in the outside, with even gold thread and sweet and refreshing taste. It is a good snack at the banquet.

You Xuan

You Xuan is a traditional fine flavor snack in Jinan. Because it looks like a spiral and its surface is golden yellow, it is named oil. Its outer skin is crisp, the inner pulp is soft, and the onion smells through the nose. It is said that Jinan's oil came from Nanjing more than 1 years ago by the three Xu brothers in Qihe County. In order to adapt to the taste of Jinan people, they improved the ingredients, and the taste became salty and fragrant, which was popular with customers and their business was very prosperous. They were called "Xujiayu". Later, many restaurants were widely imitated and became Jinan-style snacks. Features: golden color, crisp outside and tender inside, loose layers and strong onion oil flavor, which is better with wonton.

soup dumplings

There are two most famous ones in Jinan: one is the "Goubuli steamed stuffed bun" in Daguan Garden; The second is the "straw buns" in Puli Street. Both of them are engaged in "pork soup packets". Due to the strict maintenance of feeding standards, the newly released steamed buns are finely made, do not deform or collapse, and although there are many oils, they are fragrant but not greasy.

sweet and sour pancakes

the main raw material of sweet and sour pancakes is millet. Because of the different spices, they have different tastes, such as peanuts, chestnuts, pineapples, bananas, mint, roses and so on. Its characteristics are thin and crisp, sweet and not greasy, golden color, diverse varieties, rich nutrition and easy digestion.

dumplings

dumplings are traditional holiday food. According to "Ji 'nan Prefecture Records", "On New Year's Day, when you are old, your family calls you Shou, eats dumplings, and has five days." This custom has a long history. There is a saying in Jinan that "welcome guests to jiaozi to see them off", so jiaozi exceeded the time limit of holiday food and became a famous food in famous restaurants.

jiaozi is a kind of stuffed food, boiled until it is cooked, so it is called "water snack". When it is ripe, it is delicious in Jinan to eat vinegar juice with garlic cloves. Jiaozi has a distinction between meat and vegetables for fillings. There are three kinds of meat stuffing, fish stuffing, chicken, pork and mutton; Vegetarian stuffing can be divided into full vegetarian stuffing and semi-vegetarian stuffing. Add some seasonings such as minced onion and ginger, sesame oil, pepper water, monosodium glutamate, etc., and add spiced powder to the vegetarian stuffing. When making dough, it is mixed with cold water dough, dosed, rolled and stuffed. After jiaozi is wrapped, the water boils in the pot, and it is cooked until it is cooked. It is cooked with cold water, so that the skin of the mature dumplings is tender and tender, and the stuffing is delicious.

Spring cake

beginning of spring is the beginning of spring and a new year. Rural areas all over our country use various forms to congratulate and demand a good harvest in a year. Tasting spring is characterized by eating spring cakes, spring rolls and spring plates, which can be cooked by every household. Mix the dough with boiling water, and the cooked cake is refreshing, chewy, soft and fragrant, and can be eaten as a dish. Old Jinan people like to stir-fry mung bean sprouts, vermicelli, shredded ham, chives, shredded eggs and so on, and roll them with spring cakes.

wurenbao

wurenbao is sweet and fragrant, white in color, beautiful in shape, with high nutritional value, and it is one of the characteristic flavor pasta in Jinan. It is prepared by frying five kinds of materials, namely peanut kernel, sesame kernel, walnut kernel, almond kernel and melon seed kernel, peeling and crushing, then adding red jujube diced, osmanthus sauce, money crisp powder and so on, and finally adding white sugar.

shepherd's purse spring rolls

In spring, people in old Jinan have the custom of making spring rolls, not only in restaurants but also in families. In spring, when the field shepherd's purse broke through the ground, the whole family went out for an outing to pick some shepherd's purse, made a pure roll of shepherd's purse and enjoyed tasting the fresh and delicious field shepherd's purse.