Go to Jinan to appreciate the mountains and springs there, and also taste Jinan’s special snacks, so that you can have fun and eat better while traveling in Jinan!
1. Tianmo Tianmo is a traditional popular porridge food in Jinan. It is a salty porridge cooked mainly 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, the sweet fried dough sticks are the most common breakfast for Jinan people.
2. Handful of meat: Handful of meat is one of the classic dishes of Shandong cuisine. It is a famous dish in Jinan, Quancheng City, and belongs to Shandong cuisine.
The meat is cooked with high-quality pork belly, which has a special texture that is fat but not greasy. It is combined with the dish cooked slowly with a good quality caramel sauce-colored broth, which is just right for rice.
The combination of one bite of rice and one bite of meat just brings out the aroma of rice and meat.
The meat is mostly eaten for lunch, but it is also very suitable for dinner.
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.
There are other auxiliary dishes to match such as: Sixi meatballs, dried orchids, kelp knots, gluten, bean gluten, tofu skin, yuba, bean curd, vegetarian chicken slices, tiger eggs, day lily, green vegetables, beans,
The combination of sausages, ribs, elbows, chicken legs and other meat and vegetables can meet the different dietary needs of customers. A bottle of beer is required, and a bowl of dry rice topped with delicious and fragrant gravy will make your mouth full of oil and have a long aftertaste.
Fragrant in the mouth.
The combination of one bite of rice and one bite of meat just brings out the aroma of rice and meat.
There are other auxiliary dishes to match such as: Sixi meatballs, dried orchids, kelp knots, gluten, bean gluten, tofu skin, yuba, bean curd, vegetarian chicken slices, tiger eggs, day lily, green vegetables, beans,
The combination of sausages, ribs, elbows, chicken legs and other meat and vegetables can meet the different dietary needs of customers. A bottle of beer is required, and a bowl of dry rice topped with delicious and fragrant gravy will make your mouth full of oil and have a long aftertaste.
Fragrant in the mouth.
3. Straw buns Straw buns are a famous Jinan specialty snack that almost everyone who travels to Jinan must taste.
In 1937, an honest man named Zhang Wenhan opened a shop called Straw Buns in Jinan. The straw buns he made were famous in the spring city of Jinan for their rich fillings, delicious taste and soup.
It has fine selection of materials, exquisite workmanship, rich and distinctive ingredients, mellow taste, and many varieties of colors.
The most distinctive thing is that it is packaged in lotus leaves. With the title of Jinan East Lotus and West Willow, 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.
4. Jinan traditional snack with jar meat.
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.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the most famous store selling jar meat in Jinan was Tongyuanlou, which opened during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. It was located on Houzaimen Street in the city and enjoyed a high reputation at that time.
Because the meat is stewed in a porcelain jar, it is called jar meat.
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.
5. Youxuan Jinan's special specialty Youxuan is crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and fragrant with green onions. It is named Youxuan because of its shape like a spiral and its 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.
During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there were oil spinners operating in Jinan City.
The fried shallots are rich in aroma, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It is very popular and has been passed down to this day.
16. Nine-turn large intestine Nine-turn large intestine is a traditional famous dish in Jinan, Shandong Province and belongs to Shandong cuisine.
This dish was first created by the owner of Jiuhualin Restaurant in Jinan in the early years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. It was first called "braised large intestine". After many improvements, the taste of braised large intestine was further improved.
Modern people have used relevant techniques to produce the Nine-Turn Large Intestine made purely from vegetarian food, which is also the Vegetarian Nine-turn Large Intestine.
It is fat but not greasy in the mouth, very chewy, and full of sweetness, so it is paired with cucumber to clear the mouth. Take a bite of large intestine and another bite of cucumber, and you will have endless aftertaste.
7. Quancheng Baked Potato Quancheng Baked Potato is a specialty roasted potato that has recently been introduced to Jinan, Shandong Province. It originates from Jinan’s local roasted potato culture that has lasted for hundreds of years.
Quancheng Baked Potatoes use cultivated sweet potatoes. Through the improvement of the baking process, the roasted taste is far superior to street barrel roasted and charcoal roasted sweet potatoes. Since the launch of Quancheng Jinan, it has been loved by many food lovers.
The skin of the freshly baked Quancheng baked potatoes will crack slightly, revealing the attractive golden yellow flesh. At this time, the crystal clear sugar oil will also flow out gently, making people salivate at the sight.
, the aroma of potato that hits your nostrils will make you want to stop.