Jilin is located in the northeastern part of China, with a vast territory and rich products. Changbai Mountain is towering and the forest is boundless. Songhua River is surging and the waves are rolling; The endless prairie contains endless treasures. There are more than 70 kinds of plants and 80 kinds of edible fungi that can process spices and tonics in the province. Jilin specialties such as Tricholoma matsutake, Pleurotus citrinopileatus and bracken are favored by consumers. These delicacies have been carefully cooked by chefs, forming a series of nutritious Kanto delicacies.
Jilin cuisine combines the cooking essence of Beijing cuisine, Shandong cuisine and western cuisine, combines the local people's eating habits, makes full use of Jilin's rich products, and forms its own characteristics, which can be simply summarized as: game is ready, cooking is exquisite, mellow, simple and affordable.
Jilin cuisine is widely used and beautifully made, and attaches great importance to the use of local specialty raw materials. The Changbai Mountain Banquet, Songhua River Water Banquet, Jiangcheng Broad Bean Banquet, Ginseng Medicinal Diet Banquet and Sika Deer Banquet, which are cooked with special food, are famous all over the world. Especially in the production of game dishes, there are many unique features and accumulated rich experience.
Jilin cuisine attaches great importance to cooking and is good at using cooking methods such as roasting, stewing, roasting, leaning, frying, drawing and sauce. Fine production, heavy oil, thick color, pay special attention to the configuration of large dishes in the banquet, and the dishes are famous for their large quantity and paying attention to fat and affordable. Some dishes are cooked tender but not raw, thoroughly but not old, rotten but not firewood, or crisp outside and tender inside, crisp outside and rotten inside, and so on. And the application of heat has reached the point of perfection.
Rich and fragrant is the main feature of Jilin cuisine and the core of its characteristics. Auspicious dishes are mellow, soft and crisp, light and refreshing, making them thick, light, meaty and vegetarian. Spicy taste, five flavors, sweet and salty taste, sweet and sour taste, tomato juice taste, hot and sour taste and sweetness account for a large proportion. Jicai is also good at cooking medicated diet with nourishing Chinese herbal medicines and raw materials. The halal and Korean snacks in Jilin also have unique flavor.
Auspicious dishes are thick and simple, giving people a natural aesthetic feeling of carving. Cheap and good quality, large quantity and affordable. The quantity of stir-fried dishes is large, and the stew is often full. Famous foods include: stewed pork vermicelli, stewed mushrooms with chicken, white meat and blood sausage, sauerkraut hot pot, velvet antler soup, chicken paste, fried toad and ginseng chicken soup; Korean flavor includes: dog meat, dog hot pot, raw beef, braised Tricholoma matsutake, braised pork, braised eggplant with catfish, fried meat, fermented dough twists, Korean cold noodles, snowy red bean paste and cake making.