Qilu flavor, represented by jinan cuisine, is popular in northern Shandong, Tianjin and Hebei. Qilu cuisine is famous for its fragrance, tenderness and pure taste. In particular, there are strict regulations on the use and cooking of soup, clear soup and milk soup, and the dishes are famous for their freshness, crispness and tenderness. Making soup is a major feature of jinan cuisine. Sweet and sour carp, kung pao chicken (Shandong flavor), Jiuzhuan large intestine, crispy soup, Pu Cai in milk soup, Nanchang, Yuji braised chicken and Jinan roast duck are all famous dishes in Jinan. The famous flavor snacks in Jinan are: pot stickers, soup packets, silk cakes, sugar cakes, arhat cakes, money cakes, steamed honey cakes, dumplings and so on. Dezhou cuisine is also an important branch of Qilu flavor, and the representative dish is Dezhou boneless braised chicken. (2)

Jiaoliao flavor, also known as Jiaodong flavor, is represented by Qingdao cuisine. Popular in Jiaodong, Liaodong and other places. Pepper dishes originated from Fushan, Yantai and Qingdao, and are good at cooking seafood. Its taste is mainly fresh and tender, with emphasis on lightness and color. Top ten representative dishes in Qingdao:

Sea cucumber powder, crispy chicken, home-cooked fish fillets, Laoshan mushroom stewed chicken, abalone with original shell, hot and sour fish balls, fried oyster yolk, fried conch, stewed cabbage with prawns, and stewed tofu with yellow croaker. Qingdao's top ten specialty snacks: grilled squid, sauced trotters, three fresh pot stickers, Chinese cabbage stuffed buns, spicy and fried clams, seafood noodles,

Ribs rice, Spanish mackerel jiaozi, seaweed jelly, chicken soup chaos. (3) Confucian flavor, represented by Qufu cuisine. Popular in southwestern Shandong and Henan, it is close to Xuzhou in Jiangsu cuisine.