"New Era, New Shandong Cuisine" - 2021 Shandong Cuisine Innovative Competition Collects New Dishes from the Globe

Recently, Jinan City of Shandong Province launched "New Era, New Shandong Cuisine" - 2021 Shandong Cuisine Innovation Competition. The event is co-held by Shandong Base Station of China Media Group, Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and Shandong Tourist Hotels Association, under the guidance of the Publicity Department of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee.

Shandong cuisine or Lu cuisine, one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of Chinese cuisine, originated from Shandong and features a long history and a variety of fantastic culinary skills.

The competition is designed to develop new popular dishes, establish new brands and build a new platform of inheritance and innovative development. It will collect innovative dishes from Shandong and the whole globe at large. Candidates can present new dishes characterized by innovative concepts or developed on the basis of traditional Shandong cuisine.

The event started on September 16 and will last until February 2022. It includes the four stages of open selection, semi-finals, finals, and promotion. "Ten Top Innovative Dishes in 2021" and "My Favorite New Shandong Dish in 2021" will be nominated and announced. Candidates can send videos of the cooking of their innovative dish to sdnews@cri.cn by October 31, 2021. The duration of each video shall not exceed 5 minutes.