Features: exquisite selection of materials, exquisite knife method, attention to efficiency, diverse colors, and good use of onion and ginger.
Representative dishes: sweet and sour fish, pot-roasted elbow, onion mutton, onion sea cucumber, pot-collapsed tofu, braised conch, fried eel, etc.
Shandong cuisine is composed of jinan cuisine cuisine, Jiaodong cuisine and Confucian cuisine, representing many cuisines.
After a long period of growth and evolution, Shandong cuisine has gradually formed two major schools, namely Jiaodong School represented by Fushan Gang and Jinan School including Dezhou and Taian. And there are elegant and luxurious Confucian dishes that can be called "Chun Xue", as well as various local famous dishes and flavor snacks dotted between them.
Jiaodong cuisine is good at frying, frying, roasting, frying and steaming; The taste is fresh and light; Most of the ingredients are shrimp, conch, abalone, oyster yellow, kelp and other seafood. One of the famous dishes in China is "abalone with original shell", and the main ingredient is Zhenhai abalone from Changshan Islands. Cooked by traditional Shandong cuisine, it is delicious, tender and appetizing. Other famous dishes include shark's fin with crab roe, dried scallop with hibiscus, roasted sea cucumber, roasted night shrimp, fried oysters and steamed Cargill fish.
Representative dishes are:
Fried conch, steamed Cargill fish, roasted abalone, night shrimp, fried oyster yellow, etc.
Ji 'nan School is famous for its soup, with consonants exploding, frying, burning and frying, and its dishes are clear, fresh, crisp and tender. Among the famous dishes, there are clear soup jambalaya and milk soup ordinary dishes, which are fresh and elegant and unique. Sweet and sour yellow river carp with tender inside and burnt outside, crispy pot tofu with oil, and rare vegetarian dishes all show the skill of Jinan school. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the employer of Jiuhualin Restaurant in Jinan washed the pig intestines at night, cooked them with nasal spray until they were soft and crisp, cut into pieces, and added craftsmen. Rent, sugar, nasal spray, etc. Fat braised sausage made of nasal spray is very famous in this city. Later, the construction improved. Blanch the washed sausage in boiling water, fry it in oil pan, pre-season it and cook it with nasal spray. This dish tastes more delicious. Literati named it "Jiuzhuan Shuye Intestine" according to its structure, which is as dense as Taoist "Jiuliandan Medicine".
Representative dishes are:
Clear soup bird's nest, milk soup, onion sea cucumber, sweet and sour yellow river carp, nine-turn night sausage, crispy oil, pot elbow.
Confucian cuisine consists of home-cooked dishes and banquet dishes, and home-cooked dishes are the daily diet dishes of family members in the government. "Eight immortals crossing the sea to make arhats" was the first course of Confucius' birthday banquet, and shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, fish bones, fish belly, shrimp, asparagus and ham were selected as the "eight immortals". Chop the chicken breast into mud and make it into arhat money at the bottom of the bowl, which is called "arhat" Put it in a circular porcelain jar and arrange it in eight directions. Put Lohan chicken in the middle, sprinkle with ham slices, ginger slices and blanched cabbage leaves, and then pour in the cooked chicken soup. In the past, when this dish was served, it would be sung in an opera. It's luxurious to watch the fun while enjoying the rich flavor of the New Year.
Representative dishes are:
Poetic gift of Ginkgo biloba, two chickens hatched from one egg, eight immortals crossing the sea to make arhats, Confucius' first-class pot, fairy duck, brought into the court, held carp, mandarin fish, jade shrimp, oily tofu, red roasted shark's fin and white roasted wings.