According to the legend of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and in accordance with the Taoist health concept, Yantai famous chefs use green and original ecological specialties such as sea cucumbers, prawns, scallops, sea crabs, red snails, and real seabream as the main raw materials, supplemented by Jiaodong's mountain rare game, using authentic Lu cuisine techniques, integrating modern seasoning methods, and developing the Chinese famous feast "Eight Immortals Feast". The feast consists of 8 cold cuts, 2 main courses and 8 hot dishes. Cold dish platter modeled on the treasures used by the eight immortals across the sea into a pattern, vivid and chic shape, exquisite craftsmanship, not only delicious taste, but also ornamental fun; hot dishes using authentic Jiaodong method cooking, rich in ingredients, fine selection of materials, excellent skills, diverse tastes, each dish is accompanied by allusions and legends, showing the eight immortals' extraordinary skills; soup is made of sea cucumber flowers, mullet eggs, clear soup, delicious and peculiar, making people's lips and teeth fragrant.
Penglai Pavilion is one of the "Four Famous Buildings in China", which was built in the Song Dynasty, the palace pavilion is soaring in the sky, surrounded by clouds and smoke, known as a fairyland. The sculpture of Penglai victory with fruits and vegetables can enrich the atmosphere of the banquet, supplemented by the image of eight immortals crossing the sea, giving people a beautiful enjoyment.
Fairy gourd treasure (crisp shrimp)
This dish is made with a gourd shape with shrimp and shrimp.
Iron Crutch Li is the head of the legendary Eight Immortals, black face and unkempt head, golden hoop hair, torn clothes, lame crutches, carrying a large medicine gourd behind him, and a panacea for healing and saving people.
Miaoyin Juxian (Chen Vinegar Sting Head)
This dish is made from stings and served in a vessel decorated with bamboo reeds, and the taste is crisp and sour.
Han Xiangzi is one of the legendary Eight Immortals, and is said to be the nephew of Han Yu, a great writer of the Tang Dynasty, who was good at blowing pipes. The Taoist music "Smallpox Introduction" is said to have been composed by Han Xiangzi. His treasure is called the Purple Gold Reed.
Jade Plate Pilgrimage (Luohan Squid Belly)
This dish is made of squid as raw material, added green beans, pork skin, sea rice, etc., and is arranged into a jade plate shape, which is beautiful in shape and has excellent taste.
Cao Guo's uncle was one of the Eight Immortals, and according to legend, he was the eldest brother of Empress Cao during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, with a crown robe with jade boots and a jade plate, and it is rumored that he was jointly incarnated by Han Zhongli and Lü Dongbin.
Clear lotus out of the water (fragrant cinnamon glutinous rice root)
This dish is steamed with crispy lotus root, glutinous rice, and rock sugar as the main ingredients, cooled and sliced, accompanied by osmanthus sauce and garnished with carved lotus flowers.
He Xiangu is the only woman among the Eight Immortals, who had a spirit at birth, and later met Lü Dongbin, gave her a peach and a jujube, and became an immortal after eating it. Her image is holding a lotus flower, so she is called "Lotus Fairy".
Fishing Drum Confession (Emerald Haimi)
This dish is made of golden hook sea rice and lettuce as raw materials, processing the lettuce into a twist shape, and then adding pepper oil and other spices to brew, pieced together into a fishing drum shape, sprinkled with sea rice, turquoise and fresh, tempting appetite.
Zhang Guolao was one of the Eight Immortals, a Tang Dynasty Daoist monk, named Zhang Guo, who later cultivated into an immortal. He rode a donkey upside down, and he could travel thousands of miles a day. His magic instrument is the fishing drum, and it is said that the folk Youfang Daoist sings The Taoist sentiments, that is, it began with Zhang Guolao, and the accompanying fishing drum was also invented by him.
Flower basket welcome (old Penglai smoked mackerel)
This dish is made from local Mackerel from Penglai, which is full of texture and aroma, and decorated with a basket-shaped carved plate.
Lan Caihe, one of the Eight Immortals, is a hand-held basket. He often wears torn blue shirts, large black pants, a three-inch wooden belt around his waist, and one foot in boots and one foot on his feet. Summer is added to the shirt, and winter is lying in the snow, and the air is like steaming. He is quick and humorous, often drunk and singing, young and old, people ask questions, can answer immediately, and often make people lean forward and backward.
Long sword dust (Penglai sauce donkey meat)
This dish is named after the local dish of Penglai" "old taste brine donkey meat", which is dry and flexible, with endless aftertaste, and the bottom is covered with bamboo leaves, in the shape of a sword.
Lü Dongbin is the central figure of the Eight Immortals, the most famous and the most influential on Taoism. He is one of the "Five Ancestors of the North" of the Quanzhen Sect, and is also worshipped by the Southern Sect as the Master Ancestor, and there are thousands of Lüzu Temples, Lüzu Halls, and Lüzu Ancestral Halls throughout the country.
Treasure Fan Getaway (Seaweed Fish Roll)
This dish is made with fish, seaweed, and egg skin as ingredients, and has a unique taste. The bottom of the dish is arranged in a fan shape, resembling a banana fan of Han Zhongli.
Han Zhongli is the only immortal born in the Eight Immortals. He looked "like a dantu, handsome and beautiful hair, eight feet long", and was a great husband and a beautiful man. Because of fighting the enemy, he was defeated and deserted, and he became an immortal in fear of sin.
Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea (Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea)
This dish is made of Penglai specialty abalone, dried scallops, shrimp, fish maw, plus ham, yellow and white cake, belly kernels, quail eggs and eight kinds of ingredients, hence the name. The abalone is processed into a coral shape, with a bright color and delicious taste.
Among the legends of the Eight Immortals, the most popular is the legend of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". "Eight immortals cross the sea, each showing their own magic", metaphorically everyone has different abilities or has their own way of doing things.
Xiangzi Zi Zi Song Yo Yo (Scallion Grilled Sea Cucumber)
Grilled sea cucumber with green onions is the first dish in Jiaodong, made from high-quality thorns from Nagashima and grilled with zhangqiu scallions, and decorated with a carved plate.
Han Xiangzi was born in Shuxiang Mendi, he greeted the sunrise with the morning sun, and the twilight accompanied by the breeze to make the moon shadow. A pipe can blow hundreds of flowers on land and make the sea tribe dance.
Iron gourd to keep healthy (Eight treasure gourd chicken)
This dish removes the whole chicken bone, stuffs eight seafood fillings into the belly of the chicken, makes it gourd-shaped, steams it and serves it on a plate.
Tie Quan Li is the medicine king and medicine immortal worshiped by people, and is also the auspicious god and joy god who is most closely related to the people, and the folk believe that his treasure gourd can protect health.
Fruit Aging Degree Affinity (Hibiscus Crab)
This dish was originally named Eye View Six Road, with Laizhou pike crab as raw material, fried with egg white to make a hibiscus-shaped, crab cover plate, because the crab eyeballs are more than 5 mm high, so it is named.
Zhang Guo rode a donkey upside down to the seashore of Dengzhou Capital, and saw two young people fighting for a basket of crabs. When Elder Zhang Guo saw that the two of them looked strange and had a very immortal relationship, he persuaded them to make peace and transform into immortals.
Zhong Li Bao Fan Sends Blessings (Grilled Parsley Shellfish)
This dish is made from fresh beetle, made of fresh beyrene and chopped celery. I wish guests that after tasting this dish, they can always smile and make their hearts come true.
Han Zhong departed from the Road "Heguzi", was born with a different phase, and was a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After returning to his heart, he called himself "scattered in the world", revealing his belly and happy look, quite a scattered immortal demeanor.
Pick and carry basket welcome guest (bird shell fragrant chrysanthemum burst conch)
This dish is made from bird shellfish, conch and Huangshan gongju and served in basket-shaped utensils.
The flower basket of blue caihe can be transformed into various illusions according to people's wishes. When the demons and ghosts come, they will show their true faces, and when the guests from afar arrive, the flower basket will automatically emit a strange fragrance.
Xian Gu Cuisine Sai Hundred Flowers (Portuguese wine jar meat)
This dish is made with pork belly, lotus seeds, dates, peanuts and wine.
Folklore He Xiangu cooking is extraordinary, when the eight immortals gathered, He Xiangu stewed with pork belly, lotus seeds, dates, peanuts, its taste is peculiar, the seven immortals after eating all called "this taste should only be in the sky, rare to taste several times in the world."
Uncle Sex Pure GoodNess (Stir-fried rape with garlic and sea intestines)
This dish is made of minced garlic, rapeseed, minced meat, sea intestines, etc. as raw materials, the taste is crisp and tender, and the rapeseed is harmonic "rich", which means that the uncle of the country is good at management.
Uncle Cao Guo in the Eight Immortals, easy-going temperament, tonal rhythm, good at chess, happy to compose poetry, can be described as versatile. It is said that he is very good at business and has the ability to make a fortune, so his family is quite rich.
Lü Zu Sword To Protect Peace (Steamed Kirin Gagi Fish)
This dish is made from Penglai's specialty "rabbit hole" and steamed with a flower knife. When the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, Lü Dongbin surrendered the Great Jiao, which was transformed from the thousand-year-old Gagi fish essence. Gagi fish shaving unicorn flower knife steaming, Acura Lu Dong Bin cai high eight buckets, high martial arts, for the people to eliminate harm.
Dragon King of the Four Seas Xian Xiangrui (Sea Cucumber Flower Braised Mullet Egg)
This dish is made from sea cucumber flowers and mullet eggs.
The Eight Immortals fought hard for the Crossing Sea and the Dragon King, and the South Sea Guanyin intervened to mediate. After the two sides reconciled, the East Sea Dragon King released Lan Caihe and presented the Dragon Palace delicacies. After the Eight Immortals ate, they thanked Guanyin, each holding the treasure, riding the wind and waves, and traveling away.
Penglai noodles
As a representative of Penglai's profound and long-standing history and culture, Penglai Small Noodles has now been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province. Whether it is the production method, the taste and the materials, it is unique in the Jiaodong area, which is very local characteristic of Penglai and the representative of Jiaodong noodles. As a local traditional food in Penglai, Penglai small noodles are famous at home and abroad.
Mackerel dumplings
Mackerel dumplings are a flavor specialty of Jiaodong and have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Yantai City. Mackerel dumplings are delicate in texture and fresh and delicious; for a long time, a very distinctive "Jiaodong dumpling food custom" has been formed, and countless Jiaodong people who live and study in other places will take the taste of mackerel dumplings as the taste of home.
Jiaodong flowers are delicious
Jiaodong Huabao is listed as the intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province. After centuries of evolution, it has not only inherited traditional culture, but also shown the spirit of the times. The image created by Jiaodong Flowers is in line with the psychology of folk culture, which is popular with the people, as a folk plastic art with strong vitality, it has grown and rooted in the lives of the people, and has become a unique expression of folk customs.
Seasonal fairy fruit
Yantai native reticulated melons, grapes, figs, blueberries.