However, in recent years, Hebei has been actively promoting Zhili official cuisine, one of the three series of "Ji cuisine", to create a new cuisine in China, making Zhili official cuisine the ninth largest cuisine in China, and making it famous as "Ji cuisine" brand in the whole country and even the whole world.
The reporter was informed that at the just-concluded second China Catering Expo, Zhili official dishes became a well-deserved "dark horse" in the catering industry. Its cuisines, such as pot-wrapped elbow, braised chicken breast, government-baked salted fish and so on, were awarded the gold medal in the recommended recipes exhibition of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games by China Cuisine Association.
In fact, not only Zhili official dishes, but also many brand dishes in Hebei cuisine are equally eye-catching at this food Expo. In the exhibition area, the exhibition map with a strong flavor of Zhili official culture has become the brightest attraction of the exhibition area, which fully shows the development and innovation process of "Ji cuisine", especially Zhili official cuisine. In addition to Hebei Yulanxiang Baoding Hall, the exhibition area also shows well-known catering enterprises in Hebei Province such as Chengde Imperial Catering Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Hongyan Restaurant, which makes many people think that "Ji cuisine" has such a profound food culture after visiting Hebei exhibition area. Secondly, the model performance of Zhili official dishes is the first dish model on the catering stage in China. At the same time, it uses background music and live commentary to intuitively show the inheritance, development and innovation of Zhili official dishes. At the booth, the chef of Handan Yilouyou Catering Co., Ltd. rolled 10 dumpling wrappers with a rolling pin at the same time, which also made people clap their hands. In addition, there are a large number of newly excavated blue-and-white porcelain utensils with strong cultural flavor of Zhili government, such as the long-lost warm plate, thick juice method and abalone lamp, which are also a highlight of the food fair.
There was a hot wind of "Ji cuisine" in this Expo, especially the official dishes in Zhili greatly enhanced the popularity and influence of "Ji cuisine". At the same time, it indicates that "Ji cuisine", especially the official dishes in Zhili, will begin to go out of Hebei and go to the whole country.
It is understood that the catering culture in Hebei has a long history. Influenced by China's advanced catering culture, the catering culture of Hebei cuisine, such as its style, cooking skills and banquet etiquette, has been constantly nurtured and grown, and gradually formed a variety including palace cuisine, official cuisine, ethnic cuisine, local cuisine, etc. There are three main factions of "Hebei cuisine": South-central cuisine, represented by Baoding, which is the largest genre of "Hebei cuisine", mainly including official cuisine. In addition, there is the Northern Hebei Palace School beyond the Great Wall, represented by Chengde, such as the Manchu-Han banquet. In addition, there is a coastal school in eastern Hebei, represented by Tangshan, which is good at cooking fresh aquatic raw materials.
According to industry sources, in recent years, with the northward movement of southern dishes, the entry of local dishes into the city and the entry of new dishes, the operation of "Ji cuisine" in high-end restaurants has suffered a great impact, and the proportion of "Ji cuisine" has dropped sharply. The problem it faces is how to "excavate, inherit and innovate", and then promote "Ji cuisine" to seize the opportunity and make it famous all over the country.
To this end, Hebei Province recently held the "2006 Hebei Cuisine Culture Exhibition". It is understood that the organizing committee will organize and hold the Development and Innovation Forum of Ji Cuisine, the Brand Exhibition of Yanzhao Catering Enterprises and the Exhibition of Famous Cuisine, Famous Points and Famous Banquets, the Creative Competition of Ji Cuisine, the Promotion Month of Ji Cuisine in Beijing, etc., and will also publish and print the Collection of Famous Cuisine and Famous Banquets. Fully demonstrate the development achievements of Hebei catering industry, dig deep into the history of Hebei cuisine, and cultivate and establish the brand of Hebei cuisine.
In 2005, the catering and accommodation industry in Hebei Province achieved a total retail sales of social consumer goods of 34.96 billion yuan, up 19% year-on-year, ranking first in all industries, and more than 30 catering enterprises were rated as national super-class and first-class restaurants and hotels.
A person in charge of the Organizing Committee of "2006 Hebei Cuisine Culture Exhibition" told reporters that Hebei catering industry has formed a unique regional style and cultural concept. Ji cuisine not only pays attention to local characteristics, but also draws on the strengths of others; While inheriting traditional skills, we should constantly pursue change and innovation, and combine them with tourism products. Hebei cuisine has a wide range of materials, fine selection of materials, deep internal strength, emphasis on color, flavor and nutrition structure, highlighting salty, fresh, strong and maotai flavor, a wide variety of patterns, pursuing elegant environment, paying attention to etiquette and service, and its influence and popularity are constantly improving. For example, the whole fish banquet in Zhili and the official banquet in Zhili, China, the first-class civilian food and the first-class military officer food in Baoding Guild Hall were highly praised by the judges and became one of the big winners of the second food Expo. Huading Royal Noodles of Zhuozhou Huadingqi Company was recognized as the recommended dish for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Handan Yilouyou Catering Co., Ltd. was awarded the title of 1 China Famous Banquet.
Liang Lianqi, chairman of Hebei Yulanxiang Baoding Club Catering Co., Ltd. said that at present, there are more than 40 "Zhili official dishes" excavated and inherited by us, and hundreds of various "Zhili official dishes" and more than ten classic banquets are still under development. In addition, we also applied for patents and registered brands of Zhili official dishes and Zhili official banquets, among which Zhili official dishes were officially recognized as intangible cultural heritage in Hebei Province in June this year. We hope that Zhili official dishes will become the pride of "Ji cuisine" and even "China official dishes" and make them "Zhili official dishes".