Qixia specialties are introduced yantai green tea, Qixia apple, grilled abalone, Qixia red Fuji apple, Qixia large perfume pear. Among them, Qixia apple has a bright appearance, upright piles, smooth fruit surface, rich nutrition, excellent flavor, and is well-known. Rich in a variety of antioxidant substances and esters, alcohols dozens of aromatic substances, constitute the characteristics of Qixia apple rich aroma and shelf resistance.
Yantai Green Tea:
Yantai is the northernmost green tea cultivation area in China. Affected by the warm temperate monsoon continental climate, the growth of tea plants in our city is slow, the nutrients of tea are accumulated, and the quality is excellent. Tested by the Tea Quality Supervision and Inspection and Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the green tea water extract produced in our city is 48.6%, which is 14% higher than that of southern tea, and the important indicators of amino acids, tea polyphenols, caffeine, chlorophyll and other important indicators that reflect the quality of green tea can be comparable to southern tea, with the characteristics of "soup color is turquoise and bright, the leaves are thick, the aroma is strong, and it is resistant to brewing".
In recent years, the scale of green tea planting in our city has been expanding, the current total area has reached 6,000 acres, and has explored a set of scientific and reasonable green tea cultivation operating procedures, and the economic income of the green tea industry has achieved steady growth. The production area of Yantai green tea is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Yantai City, Shandong Province.
Qixia Apple:
Qixia City, Shandong Province, known as the "Jiaodong Roof Ridge", covers an area of 2017 square kilometers, the main terrain is hilly and mountainous, with the characteristics of "six mountains, one water and three fields". Such a geographical and natural environment is very suitable for planting apples, and the Qixia people have a long history of planting apples for more than 100 years. Qixia apple is known for its large shape, bright color, good finish, moderate sweetness and sourness, crisp and delicious.
It has been listed by the Ministry of Agriculture as a national high-quality fruit production base, by the Ministry of Domestic Trade as a demonstration city for the integration of fruit production and marketing, by the All-China Supply and Marketing Cooperative and the State Bureau of Technical Supervision as the only apple standardization demonstration city in the country, and by the Organizing Committee for the Naming of The Hometown of Chinese Specialties awarded "China's Apple Town".
Grilled abalone:
Grilled shell abalone is a famous dish with Shandong flavor. Abalone has been served for more than 2,000 years and has been regarded as a delicacy since ancient times, ranking "the crown of seafood". To make this dish, the abalone meat needs to be grilled and matured, and then put into the original shell to keep it in its original state, and then poured with the sauce, just like the abalone diving to the bottom of the sea, transparent and shiny meat is tender and tender, delicious.
It is neatly sandwiched into the dish and watched its shape and meat, which is particularly interesting and is appreciated by Chinese and foreign guests. Abalone is one of the precious "sea treasures", delicious taste, rich in nutrition, known as the "soft gold" of the ocean. Abalone is a valuable marine edible shellfish, known as "table gold, the crown of sea treasures", its flesh is tender and nutritious.
Qixia Red Fuji Apple:
Qixia red Fuji apple is a specialty of Qixia City, Yantai City, Shandong Province. Qixia red Fuji apple is famous for its bright color, large shape, smooth fruit surface, thin skin and crispy flesh, sweet flavor, juicy and refreshing. Qixia is the main production area of China's high-quality red Fuji apples, covering an area of 650,000 mu and a total annual output of more than 1.2 billion kilograms.
In order to ensure the variety and quality of apples, the city has established extensive contacts with domestic colleges and universities and scientific research institutes, and implemented the city, township and village "three-level leadership model garden" and "science and technology demonstration park" project, driving the whole people to participate in creating high quality and creating famous brands, promoting and popularizing more than 20 advanced management technologies such as formula fertilization, grass covering under trees, laying reflective film, etc., widely adopting biological engineering technology, and has been identified by the Ministry of Agriculture as the first batch of "national pollution-free apple production demonstration base city".
Qixia large perfume pear:
Qixia large perfume pear belongs to the white pear system, originally known as "Nangong fennaclav", after the introduction of Qixia after more than 150 years of planting and cultivation, the formation of a unique flavor and characteristics of the perfume pear varieties. The average single fruit weight of the large perfume pear is about 200 grams, the fruit is oblong, the skin is yellow-green, yellow after storage, the peel is thin, the fruit point is small, the flesh is tender, juicy, the texture is crisp, and the taste is sweet and slightly sour. In mid-September, the large perfume pears begin to ripen. The fruit is resistant to storage, and the general storage period can reach about 8 months. The main production area of large perfume pears is on the river flats in the Whirlpool River Basin and the Qingshui River Basin in Qixia County.
Here is a fine sand soil, loose soil, good permeability, rapid heating in the ground, heat dissipation is also fast, the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is conducive to the accumulation of pear tree sugar. Therefore, the large perfume pear has a high sugar content, and 12 grams of sugar per 100 grams of fresh pulp, which has become a good product in the white pear system. In 1985, at the Shandong Fruit Appraisal and Appraisal Conference, it was rated as a high-quality fruit.