The beautiful Shandong Province has a rich food culture and unique food folk customs. Shandong cuisine is one of the "Eight Major Cuisines" in my country, including Jinan cuisine, Jiaodong cuisine, Kongfu cuisine and other local cuisines, each with its own strengths and characteristics. Shandong people mainly eat pasta. So, what interesting food allusions are there about Shandong’s food nation? Let’s take a look.

1. Cooking utensils

Iron pot, also known as large rice pot and large pot. Common types include eight, seven, six, five, and four seals of varying sizes.

The pot lid is made of wood, with beams and handles. The best material is sycamore wood, and it is often made of seven or eight wooden boards. The proverb goes: "Pot lid, pot lid, seven "Block, eight blocks." In rural areas along the Yellow River, sorghum straw is often used to make pot lids, which are called pot pats. Wen Deng calls them lids, which are used to pad under the pot lid to prevent steam from flowing down.

Guotai, also known as pot head. Divide the pot surface, pot back, pot door surface, stove mouth, pot bottom hole and other parts.

The bellows is also called the wind box or the wind lift. Used to blow fire.

Fire sticks are used to stir firewood and burn firewood. They are either made of iron or made of tree branches.

The grate is placed in the pot and used to steam food.

Ke Chuzi, also known as Qie Liang. It is carved with "Y" shaped branches and placed in a pot for rice.

The rice steamer is made of pottery, plate-shaped, with many holes throughout the body, and is fastened to the bottom of the pot when steaming food.

The vegetable mound is made from a round cut of tree root wood, used for cutting vegetables and meat.

Chopping board, used for cutting vegetables, meat, etc.

Chopping board table, used for processing pasta.

Chop knives are generally rectangular. Fishermen on Sanshan Island in Laizhou all have pointed knives for washing fish and prying clams.

Caichong is used to grate shredded radish, potato, etc.

There are two types of fences: iron wire and wicker, used to fish food from hot water.

Panel, a cutting board used for processing pasta.

Rolling pin, also known as rolling pin. Used to roll noodles, noodle leaves, and make cakes.

Bone spoons are made from pig, cow, or sheep bones and are used to pick out the fillings when making steamed buns and dumplings.

Small rolling pin, used to roll out bun wrappers and dumpling wrappers.

The fire plate is a round thick plate with handles on both sides. It is used to press the dough when making fire cakes.

Ladles are made from cut gourds. Farmers can divide them into water ladles and noodle ladles.

Shovel is also called spatula and pot knife. Made of iron, with a small wooden handle, used for cooking, washing pots, etc.

Chopstick cage, also known as chopstick cage, chopstick tube, etc. A utensil for holding chopsticks.

Cupboard, also known as cupboard and dining cupboard. Organize cupboards for tableware and food.

Cooking brooms are generally made of a kind of sorghum spike grass (commonly known as cooking broom grass).

The basin is made of pottery, has a thick texture and is smooth when used. It is commonly known as "new basins are not as smooth as old basins". Nowadays, more and more people use enamel basins and aluminum basins.

Fruit mold, commonly known as Kokezi. Wooden carvings with various patterns of different sizes and depths, used to make pasta during festivals.

The oil tank is made of coarse porcelain and comes with a shallow iron spoon. When not in use, the spoon hangs on the side of the tank.

Small baskets and shallow baskets, made of peeled wicker, are used to hold food.

Rice baskets are made of peeled wicker or mulberry sticks and are used to hold food and hang from the beam. In Zhaoyuan, a rice basket with a lid connected to the basket system is popular to prevent cats and mice. It is commonly known as " Angry cat”.

Griddle, a flat-bottomed rimless iron pot, is used to bake pancakes and is widely popular in central and southwestern Shandong.

Oil wiper, also known as oil cloth. It is used to spread pancakes and rub oil on the griddle. It is 15 cm square, made of three or five layers of cloth, and has a handle on top.

Pancake splits are popular among the people in Tengzhou. They are cut from bamboo slices. They are 2 feet long and more than 1 inch wide at the wide end. The other end is tapered. The tips are either round or pointed and have blades on both sides for spreading. Scrape pancakes.

The pancake basket is made of wicker or wheat straw, round, more than 3 feet in diameter, and 3-4 inches high at the edge. Linyi people often use black pottery pots with straight edges to hold pancakes.

Small single pancake pan, used to remove moisture from cooked pancakes to make them more durable for storage, commonly known as "Tuo pancakes".

The pancake scraper is called a trowel in Tengzhou. Wooden, used to spread pancakes.

The stove is made of pottery, and a spoon is placed on it.

A flat iron pan with a flat bottom and a rim, used to bake thick cakes.

Water tank, used to store water.

Kettles, available in ceramic, aluminum, and iron, are used to boil water.

2. Tableware

Rice basin, used to hold porridge, noodles, etc.

There are several types of spoons: copper, iron, aluminum, wood, and coconut shell (commonly known as melon basket spoons), which are used to divide and hold meals.

Chopsticks are mostly made of bamboo and wood, and occasionally silver, ivory, bone, etc. are used.

Spoon, also known as spoon and small spoon.

Bowls include porcelain, pottery, and sand pottery. Willow bowls are commonly used by children, and aluminum and enamel bowls are popular.

Plates include vegetable plates, fish plates, soup plates, etc.

Plate, used to hold side dishes.

Soup basin, used to hold soup.

Rice plate, rectangular, wooden, with blocks around it, is also called a round plate (in Longkou area) or a passing plate (in Qingzhou area). It is used to serve meals.

Teapot, tea bowl (also called tea cup), tea tray, tea tube (or box).

Fine jug, wine glass (or wine cup).

Hot pot, traditional hot pot is made of copper, integrating cooking utensils and tableware, and is mostly used in winter.

Casseroles are also mostly used for cooking in winter.

The tableware of Confucius House is the most exquisite. The most precious set of tableware is a large silver banquet set gifted by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It consists of 404 main and auxiliary pieces of large and small utensils and can serve more than 190 dishes. The "high-placed" tableware used in the birthday banquet is made of porcelain, silver, and tin, and comes in various shapes such as square, round, ingot, and cloud. There are special utensils for famous dishes, and tableware with a water basin and a hot water pool. To keep the food warm, the small soup bowl holds only one mouthful of soup, which is called a "mouth soup bowl".