The most popular Qingdao non-legacy foods for overseas Chinese are Qingdao Dabao, Qingdao fried dumpling, ribs rice, roast chicken with Laganzi, and trotters with Qingdao sauce.
1. Qingdao Big Bread: Qingdao Big Bread is one of the top ten special snacks in Qingdao. Qingdao Big Bread is a snack that can be seen everywhere in Qingdao. It is thin-skinned, delicious and tender, and mainly includes dozens of stuffing products such as three fresh meat buns, three diced meat, five diced meat and seasonal vegetables. Speaking of Qingdao big bag, it can be said that it is well known to all ages in Qingdao, and it has been favored by many diners for its thin skin, delicious taste and fresh meat.
2. Qingdao fried dumpling: Qingdao fried dumpling is a special snack in Qingdao, Shandong Province, which belongs to Shandong cuisine. The bottom of the fried dumpling is dark yellow, with crisp taste, soft and tough dough and delicious stuffing. Pot stickers are usually made with half filling noodles and a moon bud shape. The bottom of the pot stickers is dark yellow, crisp, soft and tough, and the stuffing is delicious.
3. Rib rice: Rib rice is a unique traditional dish in Qingdao, which is similar to the ribs clay pot rice we eat. It is that high-quality ribs are slowly stewed with mushrooms, fungus and other ingredients, and then poured into the rice cooked in a casserole. The soup of ribs and rice are mixed together, which tastes delicious, rotten and not crisp.
4. Laganzi roast chicken: Laganzi roast chicken is a classic in pingdu city, Qingdao. In the late Qing Dynasty, Chen Fuxian, the third generation descendant of Pingdu Chenji roast chicken shop, added unique wax wood in the baking process, so that the roast chicken in the furnace was fully baked and blended with the fragrance of wax wood, hence the name "Laganzi roast chicken".
5. Sauced trotters in Qingdao: Sauced trotters are a traditional dish in China, a famous dish in Manchu-Han banquet. After it was introduced to Shandong, it absorbed local dietary characteristics and developed into a famous local snack in Qingdao. This snack is characterized by the separation of pig's trotters, just right, the meat is soft and chewy, fragrant but not greasy.