Qufu's must-eat foods include: smoked tofu, mutton soaked in porridge, Confucius pastry, Qufu pancake, mutton soup, baked sesame seeds in a furnace, mutton soaked in porridge, Shandong-style immortal duck, Confucius cuisine and phoenix shark's fin.

1. Smoked tofu

is also called "Confucius smoked tofu". Qufu smoked tofu is well-known at home and abroad, and it is a unique local traditional snack. Unique flavor and taste, cold, stir-fried, stewed and boiled, and can be served with wine. This kind of smoked tofu is not only loved by local people in Qufu, but also loved by foreigners in Qufu after eating it. It is said that there was a southern professor in Qufu Normal University who used to walk several miles to the market to eat smoked tofu for decades.

2. mutton soaked in porridge

The most distinctive breakfast in Qufu is "mutton soaked in porridge". Mutton is cooked with various ingredients at home. According to the needs of customers, the boss cuts off the parts you like. Some people like lamb liver and others like to eat delicate mutton. The boss cut the mutton into thin slices, then wrapped it with a kind of paper, or took it home or ate it at the stall.

The mutton is soaked in porridge, and the porridge and mutton are eaten together. The porridge is permeated with the delicious meat, and the mutton has the aroma of rice porridge, so it is impossible to taste the smell of mutton at all. The best "mutton porridge" in Qufu belongs to Xiguan, and many people who have plenty of time in the morning love to rush to Xiguan for breakfast.

3. Confucius Pastry

Confucius Pastry, like Confucius Banquet, is a unique pastry with a long history and passed down from generation to generation. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Confucius' cakes were much better than those in Beijing at that time. Confucius' cakes are baked and eaten, and their color, fragrance and shape are good.

4. Qufu Pancakes

Speaking of pancakes, people all know that it is a specialty of Shandong, and it has nurtured thousands of compatriots in Qian Qian, Shandong. Especially in the hometown of Confucius (Qufu), Qufu pancakes have formed a characteristic, with thin skin and many fillings, which are crisp and delicious to eat and full of fragrance.

5. Mutton soup

Mutton soup mainly puts sheep bones (tube bones) into a large pot to boil soup, and then puts the fresh mutton cut into pieces into the soup pot to boil together with the cleaned mutton offal. After cooking, fish it up and drain it, then slice it and put it in boiling water, then pour it into a soup bowl, pour it into hot white mutton soup, sprinkle with green coriander, garlic shoots and a bowl of steaming and fragrant mutton soup. With a mutton soup made of sea pepper noodles, pepper noodles, salt, monosodium glutamate and so on.

6, hanging furnace sesame seed cake

Hanging furnace sesame seed cake roll is one of the staple foods in Qufu, which is very unique and has local characteristics. The hanging furnace is the most distinctive. It is hung by a chain, and the other end of the chain is connected with a lever. If necessary, the hanging furnace can be lifted by a lever.

7, mutton soaked in porridge

The most distinctive breakfast in Qufu is mutton soaked in porridge. In front of many stalls selling fried dough sticks, there are mutton sellers. Porridge and fried dough sticks belong to the same family, but mutton is a separate boss. Mutton has been cooked with various ingredients at home. According to the needs of customers, the boss cuts it, sprinkles it on the hot porridge, and then soaks the meat in the porridge.

8. Shandong-style immortal duck

Fairy duck is a famous dish in Shandong. It has a long history and is said to have been a famous dish of Confucius in the Ming Dynasty. This dish is complicated in practice and strict in requirements, and takes a long time to steam. It is served immediately after steaming, so as to maintain the delicate flavor. In order to accurately grasp the steaming time, the old chefs use the method of burning incense to time, and start to burn incense before the duck is steamed, and then it can be matured.

4. Confucius Cuisine

Confucius Cuisine is an important part of China's food culture. It originated in the first year of Bao's reign in Song Renzong and was specially prepared for receiving distinguished guests, taking office, birthdays, weddings, funerals and happy birthdays.

Banquets in Confucius' House have different specifications according to the rank of monarch, minister and son. Because of the special position of Confucius in feudal dynasties, it was preserved, and it was the official dish of Qianlong period.

1. Phoenix shark's fin

Phoenix shark's fin is one of the most famous traditional dishes in Qufu, Shandong Province, which belongs to Confucian cuisine. The characteristics are: exquisite selection of materials, beautiful appearance, crisp and delicious chicken, ruddy shark fin color and mellow sauce.