Sweet and sour carp is the most famous one made in Huiquanlou, Jinan. The chef of this shop keeps the Yellow River carp in the pond for customers to choose on the spot and kill it alive to make dishes, so it is very popular with diners and is well known.
This sweet and sour carp is amber in color and dazzling. The juice is bright and bright, tender outside and crisp inside, sweet and sour, mellow but not greasy, and has a unique flavor.
Carp is the earliest and most widely distributed freshwater fish in China. Because the scales have cross texture, it is named carp. There is a saying in the Book of Songs that "if you don't eat its fish, you will be a carp in the river". Shandong is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and is rich in Yellow River carp, which is a very beautiful fish, especially golden carp, with long whiskers, wide spines and thick flesh, vivid and lovely.