Shandong snacks
SidneyPurdy
There are many legends about grits. Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong went to Jiangnan, he passed by Linyi for breakfast and wanted to try the famous local food. Local officials served this unique breakfast. After Qianlong tasted it, he found that he had never tasted such delicious porridge before. He asked casually: "What is this?" The official didn't hear it clearly, so he also asked: "What?" Qianlong heard it as "grits". So it spread among ten, ten spread among hundred, and it spread like this. "Grits" is literally a soup made of meat. Legend has it that it is a breakfast food for the Hui people in the ancient Western Regions. Initially, a Hui couple from Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty came to Linyi to operate it. It was called "meat paste" at that time. Later, more and more imitators were made, and it was designated as "grits" during the Ming Dynasty. <br />According to Linyi County Annals, rice was created by Linyi people in the late Ming Dynasty. After several changes and improvements, it gradually formed a unique and famous food in Yizhou. Before the liberation of Linyi City, there were eight famous grits shops, but now it has grown to 100 specialized grits shops. <br />Chicken grits is the most representative traditional snack in Linyi. It has salty, spicy, sour and delicious taste of chicken. It is a flavor snack in the Luyouan area of Shandong Province. Grits is an ancient snack and a kind of congee. It should be meat congee from the north. The "grits" are made of chicken, beef, sheep, pig and other meat, and the production method is slightly different. <br />It is said that when Wang Xizhi, the calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was reading at night in his hometown of Langye (now Linyi, Shandong), his wife often made grits and made them in. Therefore, it is also known as "Linyi Grits". In the past century, it has become a unique snack and has been spread throughout southwestern Shandong. It is deeply loved by people because of its spicy and delicious taste, fat but not greasy, dispelling wind and removing cold, and eating to strengthen the stomach. Drinking "grits" in the morning is a traditional food custom in Linyi.
AlexisMayer
Pancakes are a traditional domestic staple food in the Yimeng Mountains and a well-known local specialty food. "Pancakes" are a unique feature in Linyi City. When you walk into the streets and alleys of Linyi City, you will find that some little daughter-in-law and big girls on the roadside are constantly "breaking pancakes" on tricycles on the roadside: they hold up a plate of small plates on the tricycles, and next to them are placed various cut vegetables, such as leeks, vermicelli, tofu skins, mung bean sprouts, cucumber strips, cabbage, etc., as well as chili noodles, raw eggs, sesame oil, salt and other condiments. They all turned the small plates over on the briquettes stove on the cart and used them. They were concave in the middle and convex on all sides, and used oil and vegetables when cooking. When someone comes to "collapse the pancakes", they first heat the dumplings, add vegetable oil, and then mix different vegetables and seasonings according to the different tastes of the diners. Then they start to stir fry with two shovels. When the vegetables on the dumplings are stir-fried until they are seventy or eighty ripe, pour it on the two spread pancakes evenly, then roll it up on all sides, press it flat, put it back on the hot dumplings, turn it on both sides, and turn it from time to time to heat it evenly until the pancake is brown and dry. At this time, the pancakes were "collapsed" and the dishes inside were completely cooked! At this moment, when eating pancakes with cabbage, they are hot and crispy, affordable and quite delicious!
