Different from other dishes, Confucian cuisine is characterized by fine selection of materials, fine workmanship, hard feeding, complete shape and bright colors. More importantly, it created the hanging soup of Shandong cuisine.
As a folk official dish, Confucian cuisine is made of pure natural ingredients, and all kinds of vegetables are planted and specially provided. At that time, it was more professional, standardized and procedural. Before 2000, there were no seasonings such as monosodium glutamate and chicken essence. Chefs of Confucius used chicken soup to stew clear soup in pursuit of taste.
Most of the dishes in Confucian cuisine are steamed with water and the meat is crisp and rotten. The steaming method is also exquisite, that is, the first pot cover and the second cat's head paper are added, so that the fragrance of the dish is not easy to overflow, and it can only be smelled after the table is opened. These two are called fine materials and fine workmanship. The third is soup, which is the so-called Confucian cuisine. The soup is cooked with old chicken, old duck and elbow bone for 8- 12 hours, and then the clear soup is brewed. The remaining soup is used to make Confucius dishes, which are delicious and original.
Every Confucian dish has a story. Among the banquet dishes of Confucius, there are many anecdotes and unique dishes of Confucius. There are more than 280 Confucian dishes studied by Shandong Shandong Cuisine Research Institute, of which about 70 have allusions.
For example, there is a 30% discount in Yangguan, which is taken from the poem "People go out of Yangguanxi for no reason" by Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. It is often used to send friends or family banquets to express feelings of parting with relatives and friends. This dish is made of refined egg skin, three fresh ingredients and seasonal vegetables, and processed into a three-layer square tower cake. This dish is also often used for promotion and farewell (official). Now Jinan Shandong Building and Shungeng Mountain Villa can still eat, 228 yuan a person.
Summarize; Confucian cuisine is a cultural phenomenon. Confucian cuisine is the longest-lasting typical official dish in China. It is an important part of Shandong cuisine, a concentrated expression of all levels of China's food culture, and a unique and precious cultural heritage in the history of Chinese food culture and even the history of world food culture development.