Jinan Dining

Shandong Snack

Jinan cuisine is famous for its scrumptious, aromatic, fresh and pure dishes. The methods of cooking employed in the preparation of these local foods include deep-frying, grilling, frying and stir-frying but the food is non-greasy. Nutritious soup is an important feature of Jinan cuisine while shallot and garlic are widely used to create delicious flavors. Tang Cu Li Yu (Sweet and Sour Carp), Jiu Zhuan Da Chang (Fried Pork Chitterlings) and Jinan Roast Duck are very popular local delicacies.
 

Famous restaurants where you can sample Jinan cuisine
Huiquan
Location: No.201, Baotu Quan Bei Lu
Specialty: Tang Cu Li Yu (Sweet and Sour Carp)

Ju Feng De
Location: Jingwu Lu
Specialties: Xie Huang Yu Chi (Fin and Crab Cream Soup), Jiu Zhuan Da Chang (Fried Pork Chitterlings)

Daming Hu
Location: south to the southeast gate of Daming Lake
Specialty: Song Shu Yu (Squirrel Fish, here 'squirrel' refers to the cooking method!)

Weishan Hu :
Location: No.18, Jida Lu
Specialty: Black fish, which can be prepared in three different ways.
 

Quancheng Steamed Stuffed Bun
Location: No.2, Nanmen Dajie (Nanmen Street)
This is the famous stuffed bun loved by many people. Visitors are recommended to try it.

You Xuan, This is another local snack and is a kind of fried cake. The finished You Xuan is golden and crisp on the outside with a soft inside; it is particularly delicious when eaten with wonton.

Fried Dumpling is a variety of fried and baked stuffing snack. The stuffing often is comprised of pork and vegetables.

Fried Dumplings

Spring Roll
Jinan people continue the custom of making Spring Rolls in the spring. Restaurants also sell spring rolls and the popular version has a variety of wild vegetable as it main filling.

Wuren Bao (Five-Stuffing Steamed Bun)
As its name implies this steamed bun has a variety of fillings. They are peanut meat, sesame meat, walnut meat, almond and melon seed meat. The other ingredients are jujube meat cube and sugar, which make the bun more flavorsome.
 

Jinan Snacks Street is a street that runs from the Jing Shiyi Lu in the east to the Yingxiong Shan Lu in the west. This street is a place where snacks from all over the China can be found. The great advantage here is the fact that you can try a wide variety of snacks in just one place.

Quancheng Lu, a street of western and Chinese food

Quancheng Lu is a street with a long history, so you can be sure to find traditional Chinese restaurants here. Moreover you will have the opportunity to find delicacies from all over the world if you prefer any of the numerous western fast food chains, such as the Pizza Hut, KFC, and California Beef Noodle King. This is why the Quancheng Lu is called Jiinan's 'Golden Food Street'.

There are three other food streets near Quancheng Lu, Wei Xiang, Furong Jie and Shengfu Qian Jie. There are over thirty wonton species served in Xiao Canglang Wonton Restaurant at the north end of Wei Xiang. The bean jelly is a specialty served in Jinhua Cun.

Foshan Jie mainly focuses on spicy food. The flourishing of each food street has a close relationship to its surroundings. Foshan Jie is not only neighbor to up-market places like the Silver Plaza (Yinzuo) Shopping Mall, but also hotels like the Sofitel Hotel and Yuquan Simpson Hotel. The restaurants here cater for all appetites. Sichuan cuisine restaurants such as the Qiao Chuan Guo, A Xiang Po and Tian Wai Tian are located here while western restaurants and those serving Korean food are also popular in Foshan Jie.
 

Su Wei Ping Sheng
Location: Complex Building, No.10, Kai Yuan Xi Qu San Lu, Lixia District
You can reach there by bus No.64, 79, K51 and K68.

Specialties: the restaurant promises: free fruits before dinner; purified water used in cooking; no monosodium glutamate is added to food and no smoke, no meat, no eggs and no garlic, no leek, no scallion, no shallot.