Chinese cuisine is second to none, and it is the famous Manchu Han all-seated table: 108 dishes, full of mountain treasures and seafood.
In addition to the Full Han Chinese Banquet, Chinese cuisine also has many special banquets. For example, the culture Taishan, delicious Tai'an. The Taishan Tofu Feast is the best witness to the perfect integration of the royal diet culture and the local traditional diet.
Since ancient times, Taishan has enjoyed the reputation of "the supremacy of the five mountains". In the land of Mount Tai, it is the world-famous Wuyue Exclusive.
As the head of the Five Peaks, Mount Tai has always been a place of ancient royal sacrifice. The ancient emperors who were the sons of heaven thanked the heavens for their blessings and did not hesitate to climb Mount Tai.
At the foot of the majestic Mount Tai, there is also the tofu that the ancient emperors loved to eat, a banquet that carries thousands of years of imperial Sealing Zen culture, that is, the Shandong tofu feast that has been selected as an intangible cultural heritage.
Since the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the tofu banquet has been an important banquet in the Imperial Diet of Fengchan, and the production of tofu banquets in the Song Dynasty has reached a prosperous period, and the Ming and Qing dynasties have reached their peak and become an inseparable part of Taishan culture.
The tofu feast has lasted for thousands of years, and has been tasted by 72 emperors here, which is a valuable historical culture. Taishan tofu has become the "king of kings" in the famous food, and the Taishan tofu "Royal Meal" signboard with the theme of Taishan tofu came into being, and its influence has been so far.
Tofu feast is not a simple "eat tofu", the production process to achieve steaming, frying, frying, frying, grilling, braising, soup is complete, excellence;
The dishes are vegetarian and vegetarian, vegetarian and meaty, with vegetarian as the main meat and vegetarian, so as to achieve the realm of eating fish without seeing fish, eating chicken without seeing chicken, and only enjoying its taste without seeing its things.
Taishan tofu feast has a rich variety of dishes, paying attention to nutrition and cuisine, dishes and culture with cold dishes for four beautiful plates, four plates; hot dishes for twelve main dishes, to represent or sacrifice or seal the twelve ancient emperors of Mount Taishan.
Using high-quality soybeans as raw materials, using hand-made stone grinding process, Taishan tofu made of Taishan spring water, and Taishan's yellow bud cabbage and Taishan spring water are called Taishan Sanmei.
"Tarzan has three beauty, cabbage and tofu water." Anyone who comes to Taishan, Shandong, who has the honor of tasting Sanmei tofu, will eat this Famous Taishan dish and leave a beautiful aftertaste.
One of the three beauties of Taishan, the cabbage, must be yellow bud cabbage, Taishan yellow bud cabbage leaves yellow-green, leaves white, the package is lion's head shape, the heart is strong, is a traditional vegetable of excellent quality around Tai'an.
When the yellow sprouts cabbage is boiled, it has little water and is quick to cook and perish, and the vegetable soup is as white as milk, and the umami taste is special. The product can be fried, stewed, steamed, vinegar slip, delicious taste, and has the effect of stomach, anti-annoyance and detoxification, detoxification and so on;
Taishan one of the three beauty of tofu, the reason why it is good is inseparable from another beautiful Taishan water, with its grinding soy milk protein is very easy to solidify, so that Taishan tofu has a pulp fine water, tender quality does not flow, white as snow, luscious taste, elasticity, long cooking ageless paste and other characteristics.
A handful of high-quality soybeans, plus a scoop of Taishan spring water, a round of grinding upflow liquid, boiling snowflakes in boiling soup. Using Taishan's traditional handmade stone grinding process, it becomes a white jade, tender but not scattered, long-boiled authentic Taishan tofu.
The tofu feast was originally a feast eaten by the emperor when he went to Mount Taishan to sacrifice, and successive emperors loved it, so the dishes became more and more abundant with the accumulation of time.
Nowadays, tofu feasting has become a popular diet, a farmhouse specialty, and a local snack of Taishan.