Tai'an is a city full of surprises. While everyone is marveling at the wonders of Tarzan's icefall, hospitality has quietly stepped into the city's food camp
▲Dry fried red scaled fish
People here can cook and know how to eat, and have created many famous Dishes of Lu cuisine, such as refreshing and delicious Taishan Sanmei, soft and crisp Fan Zhen Fire, and powerful and sweet Taishan pancakes... So the question is, the first time you come to Tai'an, what do you eat like a local?
- Tarzan Sanmi -
Tarzan has three beauties, "cabbage, tofu and water". Some people eat this dish for the first time, see this bowl of plain cabbage stewed tofu, and think it is a "title party".
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The "cabbage tofu" here is not an ordinary "cabbage tofu", the cabbage is watered with Taishan's mountain spring water, the tofu is boiled with Taishan's mountain spring water, coupled with the mountain spring water stew, only to achieve a unique flavor of "Taishan Sanmei".
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"Three bowls are not posted, Tarzan three beautiful soup", the hospitality Jun feels that only one bowl can indulge in this delicious dish of good water and good dishes
- Fan Zhen Fire -
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Fanzhen fire is a famous snack in Tai'an, and in the streets and alleys of Tai'an, "fire" is a word that can be seen when you look up.
The production process of Fan Zhen Fire is unique and complex, from boiling donkey oil to roasting inside and outside, the whole process takes three to four hours, and each step is poured into the spirit of a craftsman.
Heat accumulates in the furnace, up to 270 degrees. Baked at high temperatures, the dough cake is quickly cooked thoroughly, and the outside is burnt and tender on the inside, forming the unique crispy taste of Fan Zhen fire.
And noodles are a strong work, raw noodles, hair noodles, hot noodles, according to the proportions handed down from generation to generation and into a "triple noodle", in order to ensure that the fire is soft and strong, the skin is golden.
The puff pastry is the finishing touch of fire. Donkey oil, peanut oil and flour are mixed and simmered. Roll in the dough and wait for the high temperature to catalyze a rich aroma.
After the roasting, Fan Zhen fire has a beautiful color, layers like tissue paper, and it is crisp and delicious to eat, which is the authentic taste of Tai'an
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- Tarzan Red Scaled Fish -
Red scaled fish is a specialty of Taishan, which was once designated as a tribute in the Qing Dynasty. Its flesh is tender, delicious, small and small, no fishy taste, rich in nutrition, and high medicinal value.
In Shandong, dry fried red scaled fish is a traditional Lu dish, fried fish until the color is yellowish, the body of the fish is bowed, and then sprinkled with a handful of "soul" pepper salt, a dry fried red scale fish is becomes.
Red Scale Fish Trivia:
Red scaled fish are listed together with oil fish, bow fish, Huang fish from Qinghai Lake and anchovies from Fuchun River in Yunnan As the "five famous fish" in China. Successive emperors and eunuchs have come to Mount Taishan to seal zen, and they will prepare this dish, and it is said that this fish will be sunburned in the sun.
- Tarzan Fried Chicken -
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Taishan fried chicken is the evolution and development of the traditional stir-fried chicken of local family banquets, and is a traditional Dish of Taishan that is necessary for Taishan people to entertain guests.
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After years of continuous improvement and innovation, it has gradually formed a unique taste and style, and has become famous throughout the country with the word of mouth of more and more tourists.
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Taishan stir-fried chicken is made of local specialty grass chicken, which is divided into dry stir-fry, sautéed, sauce stir-fry, home-cooked stir-fry, Taishan mushroom chicken and so on.
Good ingredients must be cooked carefully to become a delicacy, Taishan fried chicken process is exquisite, first the chicken chopped into hot oil stir-fry, and then add Taishan noodle sauce and other ingredients to heat the heat and burn to penetrate the flavor, and finally harvest the juice on high heat.
The finished product is bright red, mellow, soft and tender, and a piece of chicken has a long aftertaste.
At the foot of Mount Taishan, there are too many fried chicken shops to count, and you can find a place to eat chicken anytime and anywhere, and basically let you eat it!
Taishan fried chicken is not only a simple dish, more like the golden sign of the majestic Taishan, is the link of food and cultural exchanges, it is as broad and compatible as Taishan, more like the Tai'an people are hospitable, simple and natural.
- Tarzan Pancake -
If steamed buns occupy the C position in Shandong's staple food industry, then pancakes are Shandong people's Plan B ~ pancakes are one of the traditional cuisines in Shandong, it has a wide variety, Taishan stone grinding pancakes are one of them.
Shandong pancakes originally originated in Taishan, have a history of more than 1,000 years, and are the first intangible cultural heritage of Tai'an City. Among the cultural relics unearthed in Dawenkou, there is an instrument called "tweezers", which is enough to prove that pancakes have been mixed in the rivers and lakes for thousands of years.
A spoonful of ground corn paste, a hot iron hammer on one side, and the tools for making delicacies are often simple and crude.
The corn paste is gracefully poured down in the hands of the gourmand, and when it is hot, it begins to be fixed, and then it is rotated with a wooden spin, pushing left and right, and the hardcore pancake aesthetic has a shape.
The finished pancakes have a strong texture and a strong aroma, and are accompanied by chives, salted fish, small pickles, and noodle sauce, which are full of flavor and bloom in the taste buds, which is endlessly evocative.
It is derived from the taste of the hometown, but also the faint nostalgia of the people in the foreign country of Tai'an.
Group photo © photographer Zhang Jie
Pancake Trivia:
During the Ming Dynasty, pancake making was common in the Taishan area. Pu Songling, who traveled all over the north and south of Mount Taishan, wrote in "Pancake Fu": "Pancakes are made of rice beans, and the Qi people substitute noodles for pasta." "Round as a silver moon, as big as a copper hammer, as thin as the paper of the creek, as color as the plume of a yellow crane, and the customization of this pancake is also."
If you dig deeper into the city, you'll find that there's so much more to eat than that
Taishan pine mushroom stewed chicken - Taishan 100% natural wild famous "pine mushroom", with many years of old chai chicken, this taste, lips and teeth left fragrant, addictive.
Taishan ceiling pot old chicken - delicious and nutritious, smallpox and old chicken together to cook, fresh on the fresh, make up for the supplement!
Dongping bad fish - cooked bad fish, bright color, mellow and refreshing, good color and taste, must taste!
Dongping ma duck egg - large, fine egg, butter, egg white jade, egg yolk like red orange flow dan, delicious and delicious, eat a bite can not forget.
Tai'an, sitting on the glory of the five peaks, also enjoys the leisure of fireworks in the city. People on the road, you and I are the guests of the years, but also the diners of three meals a day, food is the best comfort in winter