Shandong cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines in China, is a Qilu local flavor originating in Shandong and one of the four major cuisines of the Han nationality in China. Shandong cuisine is well chosen, with exquisite knife work, comprehensive techniques, mild seasoning, various dishes, strict cooking conditions, and emphasis on freshness, crispness and tenderness. It has a great influence on the development of cooking technology in Beijing, Tianjin, North China and Northeast China. Popular dishes often highlight the flavor of onion, garlic and soy sauce, and the flavor is perfectly matched with all noodles. Therefore, it is widely popular in areas where noodles are the staple food in China. Good dishes can not be separated from milk soup, clear soup, high-quality ingredients and excellent cooking skills. They are generous, simple, dignified, fresh and beautiful, and have a Confucian style of drinking and dining. The Shandong cuisine banquet is grand and pays attention to etiquette.
The raw materials of Shandong cuisine are of good quality. They are fresh with salt, fresh with soup, and pure with salt. Scallion is a specialty of Shandong, and most dishes need to use onions, ginger and garlic to enhance the flavor and taste. Fried, fried, fried, grilled, and cooked with scallions, especially for the dishes cooked with scallions, it is better to have a strong smell of scallions, such as sea cucumber cooked with scallions, and tendons cooked with scallions; Feeding stuffing, frying pan, and cold dressing all need onions, ginger, and garlic. Seafood is rich in quantity and good in quality, and the smell is light. The fresh people pay attention to the original taste. Prawns, crabs, shellfish and clams are often served with ginger vinegar; Bird's nest, shark's fin, sea cucumber, dried abalone, fish skin, fish bone and other raw materials are superior in quality and taste, and must be freshened with stock. This kind of food is not only delicious and healthy, but also retains the original taste of the food, which is sought after by the market.
