It jointly constitutes three cooking branches with the French cooking and the Turkish cooking.
Chinese cooking is the general name of the cooking branches of every area and every nation in China.
Chinese cooking consists of four grand cooking branches and various local flavor food branches, The history of Shandong cooking branch can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, During the time of the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Dynasties it was developed rapidly. At the time the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the Shandong cooking branch was already recognized as a grand cooking branch. As an important part of the Shandong cooking branch, Jinan cooking is famous for its faint scent, freshness, tenderness and pure taste. Every dish has its own taste. Even among one hundred dishes, there is no repeating taste.