Tai'an Dining

Here are some Tai’an local dishes and snacks that you could try there in your Tai’an visiting. Tai’an dining part offers you information about Tai’an food and dishes as well as information about Tai’an restaurants.

What to Eat

  • Tofu Feast (豆腐宴): Tofu Feast probably began to be cooked and enjoyed when ancient emperors came to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices. According to Taoist doctrine, eating vegetarian diets can clean body and refresh mind". After passing down by cooks from one generation to another, Tofu Feast could represent Lu cuisine. There are more than 150 tofu dishes to choose from at the feast. The famous dishes cooked with tofu are bright in color, refreshing in flavor, great in taste and good in appearance.
  • Chinese Medicinal Food Feast (药膳宴): Owing to the pleasant climate in Mount Tai, there are various herbs. Cooks here made the best of them so that Chinese Medicinal Food Feast appeared. The feast is helpful for curing some illness and prolonging life. The feast covers several dishes like Steamed Chicken with lucid Ganoderma, Steamed Duck with lucid Ganoderma, Stewed Muttom Polygonum Multiflorum, Steamed Chicken with Four-leaf Ginseng, etc.
  • Soy Preserved Eggplant (酱摩茄): It is a special dish in Mount Tai. Taking unique eggplants as ingredients, they would be preserved by soy sauce. After half of month, it is done.
  • Deep-fried Red Squama Fish (干炸赤鳞鱼): Taking red-scale fish as an ingredient is a high-grade cuisine cooking way with Tai’an traditional flavor. The fish was a must-choice dish for emperors and officials who came here in ancient time so that local cooks passed its cooking skills from generation to generation, which makes the Deep-fried Red-scale Fish a local-featured dish.

Snacks

  • Millet Pancake (泰山煎饼): Shandong is famous for millet pancake which is already spread to all over China so that you could eat authentic pancake in any place in here. With the features of being thin, crisp and fragrant, millet pancake is made from millet which is ranked in the top grade of Chinese pancake. Local people usually eat it by rolling green Chinese onion in it

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  • Taishan Baked Wheat Cake with Donkey Oil(泰山驴油火烧): Taishan Backed Wheat Cake with Donkey is a famous snack in Tai'an District. It is made from flour and donkey oil, with pepper powder, fennel powder, sesame oil and other spices. Then it is made into the shape of a cake, and is backed with sesame.

Where to eat

Jiaodongzhuanghucheng Restaurant (胶东庄护城)

It lies on No.54 Dongyue Avenue, Taishan District. The restaurant offers you authentic Lu cuisine, especially its “Tai’an three beauties”.

Zhaoji Pancakes with Scallion Restaurant (赵记煎饼卷大葱)

It is located in the west of Rongliao Petrol Station on Taishan Avenue. It provides authentic Shandong pancake with scallion, and is welcomed by the locals as well as visitors.

Zuideyi Restaurant (醉得意)

It is 200 meters far away from the north of the Zhongbai Shopping Mall, on Naihedong Road. The restaurant offers various dishes like fried ice cream, drunken chops, etc. with affordable price.

Chengnanwangshi Restaurant (城南往事)

It is located on No. A1-1017 Baolong City Square. It provides delicious Jinan cuisine, and one of its specialties is Fried Carp with Sweet and Sour Sauce. It is said that the restaurant sells millions of fish every year.

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