What are Shandong noodles?

In our country, many people like to travel to Shandong. Shandong is a coastal city. From Shandong, you can see South Korea from afar, so some people choose to depart from Shandong when they take a boat to South Korea. In fact, for the Shandong area, because it is a coastal area, their seafood is relatively abundant, but many people who yearn for Shandong go there for the special noodles in Shandong. So what are the special noodles in Shandong?

【Linqing assorted fragrant noodles】

The predecessor of "Linqing Shixiang Noodles" is the "warm noodles" mentioned in the novel "Jin Ping Mei". It is said that when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and passed through Linqing, he caught a cold and lost his appetite after visiting Longshan and Fenghuangling. The local officials who accompanied him had an idea and ordered the chef to knead noodles with his hands and add more than ten kinds of fresh vegetables and local pickles as dishes, as well as meat and vegetarian stews. After seeing this, Emperor Qianlong's appetite increased greatly and he was very pleased, so he named it "Shixiang Noodles". It is said that "Shixiang Noodles" has become one of the most canal cultural delicacies in Linqing.

Today, "Linqing Shixiang Noodles" is the result of the Linqing Hotel chef team's mission to "inherit the canal culture and create modern cuisine". They have read ancient books on traditional food culture, visited senior people in the catering industry, and dug deep into the essence of Linqing's local traditional food culture. Through decades of dedicated research and refinement of the essence, they have combined the "warm noodles" with the folk "snack noodles" for comprehensive improvement, evolution and innovation, fully satisfying modern people's unremitting pursuit of healthy eating.

The production technique of "Linqing Shixiang Noodles" was included in the "Fourth Batch of Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage List" by the Shandong Provincial People's Government in March 2016. In addition, it has been successively awarded honorary titles such as "One Hundred Must-Try Delicacies in Shandong", "Shandong Gold Medal Tourist Snacks", and "Shandong Famous Snacks" by the Shandong Provincial Tourism Bureau, Shandong Tourism Hotel Association, and Shandong Culinary Association.