Major characteristics of Shandong Cuisine:
(1) Prepared with a wide variety of materials. For example. Jiaodong dishes are mainly made of aquatic products due to its proximity to the Yellow Sea. People in Jinan and Jiving like to prepare cuisine with mountain delicacies and seafood delights, melons, fruits, vegetables and peppers.
(2) A pure, strong and mellow taste, rather than a mixed taste. Chefs are good at using onions and seasonings.
(3) Shandong Cuisine is known for its excellent seafood dishes and delicious soup.
(4) Chefs excel at preparing clear, smell, crisp, tender and delicious dishes by frying, stirring and steaming.
Famous dishes: Stir Fried Prawns, Fried Sea Cucumbers with Onions, Sweet and Sour Carp, Large Jiaodong Chicken Wings, Taishan Fish with Red Scales, etc.
Shandong produces various kinds of wheat flour foods and snacks, such as Fushan Noodles, Weifang Chaotian Lightly Fried Dumplings, Jinan Sweet Crisp Cakes, etc.

Jinan Cuisine
Jinan Cuisine features delicate aromas, pure taste, tenderness and a wide variety. Shandong Cuisine is famous for soup, and Jinan serves best soup. Jinan Cuisine includes 200300 kinds of dishes prepared with its unique technique, overall excellence in color, smell, taste and shape.

Qingdao Cuisine
Qingdao Cuisine is good at preserving the original tastes of various raw materials with soup, which is one of the characteristics of Shandong Cuisine. The adoption of clear and milky soup is the soul of Shandong Cuisine. Qingdao Cuisine, which presents the characteristics of Shandong Cuisine in a thorough way, not only preserves the nutrition, but also features delicious, refreshing, pure and light tastes.


Yantai Cuisine
Yantai Cuisine, which enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad, includes many famous dishes, such as Shark‘s Fin with Crab‘s Meat, Shark‘s Fin in Clear Soup, Sea Cucumbers with Green Onions, Shrimp Roes and Sea Cucumbers, Minced Chicken Meat and Abalone, Stir Fried Fish Breasts, etc. In addition there are many dishes prepared with young seafood, which are tasty and delicious, with clear and refreshing soups and various shapes.

Tai‘an Cuisine
Bean curd made with water from Mount Tai is especially delicious. Thanks to the efforts of chefs, the "Mount Tai Bean Curd Banquet" has enjoyed a high reputation throughout the country. Mount Tai is rich in wild vegetables and Chinese herbal medicines. After meticulous preparations, the "Mount Tai Wild Vegetables Banquet" and "Mount Tai Herbal Medicine Banquet" are brought into forth. Fish with red scales is peculiar to Mount Tai. A large number of artificially bred fishes with red scales make it possible for more people to taste this delicious dish.