What should you pay attention to when traveling to Shandong in late October?

Shandong cuisine focuses on highlighting the original flavor of the dishes. The mainland is mainly salty and fresh, and the coastal areas are characterized by fresh and salty dishes. It is mainly based on local dishes from Jinan and Jiaodong. Jinan cuisine refers to dishes from Jinan, Dezhou, and Tai'an. It is good at stir-frying, roasting, and stir-frying, and highlights freshness, crispness, and tenderness. Jiaodong cuisine originated from Fushan, including Qingdao. , the dishes in Yantai are famous for cooking various seafood dishes.

Silver Carp Head

Cornmeal Dumplings

Jinan Tan Fish Head

"Tan Fish Head" is in Jinan Beiyuan and Wenhua Dongcai After opening two branches, people who are used to Shandong cuisine fell into the temptation of Sichuanese spicy food. That kind of special pepper that is different from the usual "Chaotian pepper" must be planted in special soil and altitude. The picking period is only seven days every year. After harvesting, it is carefully selected and put into jars, and stored in a special way for more than a year before being put into the pot, making hot pot hot pot. It is irresistibly spicy with bright color, rich spicy aroma, and soft spiciness. Those who like spicy food prefer spicy food, and those who are afraid of spicy food are not afraid of spicy food. Of course, silver carp heads are also good.

Kongfu Diguo Yijue

Kongfu Diguo Yijue is similar in shape but different in nature to Guangzhou Jiejie Claypot. Its ingredients are very simple—ba fish and radish. , tofu, green peppers, green onions, the cake is made of cornmeal, and it is deliciously yellow. When eating, put the fish on a round and flat pancake, and serve it with old tofu and radish rings. No dipping is required, but the little bit of soup that seeps out is a delicacy in the world. A little salty, a little spicy, and there is an unknown feeling lingering on the tongue. When the weather is cold, eating it warms the heart.

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Jinan cuisine is famous for its fragrance, freshness and pure taste. It is commonly known as "one dish is delicious, and a hundred dishes are not heavy". Especially in the selection of ingredients and cooking, it is cleverly Using soup stock to prepare it forms a major feature of Jinan cuisine. There are restaurants all over the street, all of which have a few specialties, famous chefs with superb skills, and a unique flavor.

If you are interested and want to save money, you can also visit street shops. Especially when the big restaurant's business hours have passed, the small shop will make people feel more friendly. Eating here is affordable and tastes good, especially Jinan’s unique buns, dumplings, noodles, and home-cooked stir-fries. Of course, the environment is not as elegant as that of a large restaurant.

Spring City Jinan is endowed with unique spring water, coupled with the selection of oil raw materials and advanced brewing technology, the wine produced can be described as top-quality drinks. If you go to Jinan's hotels and restaurants for banquets, you can taste various wines produced in Jinan.

Jinan has a rich variety of local specialties and snacks, including Laozhuancun, Jinsanbei, Taoyuan and other restaurants specializing in catering. In addition, the catering at Equatorial Hotel and Xinhua Hotel is also quite distinctive. Pearl Hotel's "Dong Laishun" mutton-shabu-shabu, Dongfang Building's "Food Stalls", Quancheng Hotel's "Quancheng Dabao" are also famous specialties in Quancheng.

Famous restaurants: Quancheng Dabao (No. 2 Nanmen Street), Mingshiduo Roasted Whole Lamb (No. 26 Jingsanweijiu Road), Straw Buns (No. 15 Puli Street), Tiantian Fried Chicken (east of Tianqiao Hospital), Yuyu Fried Chicken with Sauce Chicken (No. 42-2 Tiancheng Road), Hualinju Mushroom Roast Chicken (No. 136 Jiluo Road)

Specialties of Jinan

< p>Donkey hide gelatin, Huangjia barbecue, Longshan millet, Mingshui white lotus root, Mingshui fragrant rice, Pingyin rose, Zhangqiu green onion, sugar pancake, Muyu stone, dough sculpture, silk flower, Lu embroidery.

Attractions in Jinan

Baotu Spring Park. It is a national-style natural landscape garden dominated by spring water, located in the center of Jinan. Baotu Spring is the top of the 72 springs in Jinan and is known as "the best spring in the world". Together with more than 20 nearby springs such as Jinxian Spring, Shuyu Spring, Liuxu Spring and Mapao Spring, they form the Baotu Spring Group, with clear and sweet spring water. The water temperature is constant at around 18 degrees Celsius in all seasons, the water quality is clean and sweet, and the waves are splashing in the three springs. "Baotu Tengkong" is one of the eight scenic spots in Jinan.

Daming Lake. It is a natural lake. It was first written about in the "Shui Jing Zhu" written by Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty more than 1,400 years ago. Its water comes from the Pearl, Zhuoying and Furong springs, and there is a saying that "all springs converge". One of its major advantages is that it does not rise when it rains constantly and does not dry up after a long drought. It also has the mystery of natural ecology that "snakes disappear and frogs do not crow". There are many places of interest such as Lixia Pavilion, Tiegong Temple, Nanfeng Temple, Huibo Tower, Beiji Temple and Xia Yuan on the lakeside.

Thousand Buddha Mountain. At an altitude of 285 meters, the east and west peaks are lined up like a screen, with beautiful scenery and numerous places of interest. Xingguo Zen Temple is located on the mountainside and contains the Main Hall, Guanyin Hall, Maitreya Hall and Duihua Pavilion.

On the south side, there is Thousand Buddha Cliff and more than 130 Buddha statues from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. On the cliff, there are Longquan Cave, Jile Cave, Luzu Cave, Lishan Courtyard, etc. At the foot of Qianfo Mountain, there is the Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave, which integrates the four major grottoes in China. In addition, there are Tang Huai Pavilion, "Qiyan Nine Points", "Yunjing Zen Pass" ancient square and other places of interest.

Qingdao · Seafood Small Tofu

Seafood uses small seafood such as sea cucumbers, shrimps, squid and clams, and is paired with a variety of seafood small tofu fried with chopped green onion tofu. , the taste is delicious and not greasy. When eating, just add the scallion pancake and it's ready. The hotel is located in the middle of various ancient European buildings. From every window of the hotel, you can see the blue sea, blue sky and golden beach. Who doesn't say Qingdao is a good place?

Clams

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When it comes to Qingdao, people usually think of seafood first. You can taste live seafood in restaurants large and small in Qingdao. If you want to eat high-end, go to the Abalone Wings Seafood Restaurant on Hong Kong East Road. You can also find a restaurant to enjoy your meal. Today and Jiari are both famous seafood restaurants in Qingdao, and they have branches in various districts. In Yangkou, Laoshan, you can taste freshly caught seafood, and the price is much cheaper than in the city.

In addition to shrimps and crabs, clams are a must-eat in Qingdao. Spicy fried clams, steamed clams, baked clams, fried clams... are both economical and delicious, and you won’t get tired of eating them every day. In addition to big meals, Qingdao also has snacks, such as the famous ten snacks, such as Meida's barbecue, Wanhechun's pork ribs rice, Great Wall Hotel's dumplings, Qingdao Hotel's Qingdao dumplings, Guxiangcun's noodles, etc.

There is a special feature in Qingdao, “drinking beer with plastic bags”. On the streets, you often see people carrying plastic bags with yellow fresh beer in their belts. It is guaranteed to be fresh Tsingtao beer that day. As Qingdao calls it, this is loose beer. It only costs 1.30 yuan/500 grams. It tastes cooler than ice-cold beer.

Recommended restaurants: Yujiayan Food Palace (2nd floor of Sanjiu Hotel, No. 15 Shandong Road), Kongfu Restaurant (by Huiquan Bay), Chunhe Building (intersection of Zhongshan Road and Tianjin Road) , Jufu Building (Taixi Dongxi 2nd Road), Sansheng Building (Siliu Middle Road), Lekofu Hotel (No. 47, Dexian Road, Shinan District)

Qingdao’s Specialties

hawthorn. Qingdao is an important production area of ??hawthorn, and Laixi hawthorn is especially famous for its long cultivation time, good quality and high yield. Hawthorn is rich in nutrients and contains almost all the nutrients of fruits, especially the high content of organic acids and vitamin C. It has the effect of digesting food and reducing blood lipids.

Fist dish. A unique "mountain delicacy" in Laoshan, known as the king of mountain vegetables. When eating, soak it in warm water. After it is cooked, it can be fried or stewed. It tastes delicious. Fist vegetables are sweet and cold in nature and have the effects of clearing heat, smoothing intestines, lowering qi, driving wind, and resolving phlegm.

The Zhanqiao in the Xiaguang

Attractions in Qingdao

The must-see attractions in Qingdao include Badaguan, Zhanqiao, Xiao Qingdao, Xiaoyu Mountain, Laoshan, and Jimo Hot Spring wait.

Trestle. The symbol of Qingdao is located in Qingdao Bay, in line with the most prosperous Zhongshan Road in the city, extending from the coast into the sea. It is known as the "Changhong leads to a distant place". In recent years, Qingdao has carried out the "Retain Seagulls" campaign. Every autumn and winter when the sea is calm, thousands of seagulls fly low and soar in the bay, competing with the blue sky, the Huilan Pavilion in the distance, and the nearby seagulls. People form a harmonious picture.

Jimo Hot Spring. It is rich in geothermal resources and the water temperature can reach 93 degrees Celsius. The spring water is rich in chlorine, sodium, bromine, hydrogen sulfide and other minerals, and has high medical value.

Fried Scorpion

Yantai·Scorpion Rolled Hydrangea

Yantai cuisine belongs to Jiaodong style and is famous for cooking seafood. Poisonous scorpions have also become a delicacy for Shandong people. Fried mountain scorpions are a famous Shandong flavor dish, and Yantai people’s scorpion-rolled hydrangea is another masterpiece of eating poisonous scorpions.

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Yantai cuisine mainly refers to Fushan cuisine, and Jinan cuisine has become the two major flavors of Shandong cuisine, which has a great influence on palace cuisine. It mainly uses seafood as raw materials for dishes, and is characterized by freshness, crispness and original flavor. It is famous for steaming, frying, stir-frying, frying, roasting and stewing. It has great influence on cooking techniques in North China, Northeast China, Beijing and Tianjin and other places in China. influence and also enjoys a high reputation abroad. There are more than 6,000 overseas Chinese in Fushan alone, 90% of whom are engaged in the catering industry. Restaurants with Fukuyama style can be found in more than 30 countries and regions around the world.

The Jiaodong noodles that accompany Yantai Shandong cuisine are also quite unique. Fushan noodles have a history of about 200 to 300 years and are a specialty of Yantai noodles. A piece of dough weighing three to five kilograms, after being rolled into strips and repeatedly beaten and stretched, the teacup-thick noodle stick instantly turned into a handful of noodles as thin as silver threads and as long as weeping willows. The strips and marinade have certain specifications, complement each other and bring out the best in each other.

Recommended restaurants: Ganghua Restaurant (mainly selling Shandong cuisine), Jinhaiju Hotel (No. 32 and 33, Binhai Road, Zhifu District)

Yantai Apple

A specialty of Yantai

Apples. Yantai has a warm temperate monsoon continental climate, which is most suitable for apple cultivation. It is the largest production base of Red Fuji apples in the country. Yantai apples are of excellent quality and are famous at home and abroad for their large size, fragrant taste, sweetness and crispness.

Laiyang pear. It is a top-grade pear with large fruit shape, thin cortex, strong fragrance, tender meat, less crisp residue, sugar content of about 8.5%, and acid content of only 0.113%. It has the functions of appetizing, digesting, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs, and relieving cough. effect.

Peanuts. Yantai peanuts have large fruits and plump kernels. Since the growth period lasts for 170 to 180 days, the synthesis of amino acids is relatively comprehensive, and the protein and vitamin content are relatively high.

Big cherry. Yantai cherry is known as the "treasure among fruits" and the "crown of fruits" for its delicate, crystal clear, sweet and delicious taste, and rich nutrition. It has extremely high nutritional value.

Sea cucumber (sea cucumber). Yantai sea cucumber is mainly distributed in coastal areas such as Changdao, Penglai, Muping and Zhifu. It has high protein content and no cholesterol, making it the highest among marine treasures.

Scenic spots in Yantai

It is divided into urban area, Penglai, Changdao, Longkou, Qixia, Laiyang, Laizhou, Zhaoyuan, Haiyang and other scenic spots, each with its own key attractions.

Necessary medicines are also indispensable

It is already cold there in October, so bring your warm clothes