In Tianjin, there are over 1,000 -variety dishes being fresh, smooth and soft, and saltish with a rich taste,in more than 300 -year history, which are prepared by local cuisines,from local perfect raw materials for cooking, together with good flavouring.The traditional dishes have included the fried and stewed carps, meat braised together with carps,deep fried and sauteed birds, tiger skin pork elbow, etc.And the excellent dishes have shark’s fins braised and brown sauce, sauted shrimps, cooked prawns, shark’s fins with crab roe, shredded chicken and mushroom,braised scallops,braised abalone, sourish purple crab paste.In addition, 8-style cookeries as accepted generally by all chinese have been made in Tianjin, in spite of their being originally from respectively Shandong, Suzhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian and Anhui,and also it has over 90 varieties of specially-flavoured and ordinary dishes, 45 varieties of cold dishes and over 90 snacks with the local flavor.In the case of Tianjin flavour,besides,second-to-none foods are well-known to parts of China and foreign countries for:Goubuli Baozi,Erduoyan Zhagao,Guifaxiang Mahua.In 1998 ,Maobuwen Jiao zi, another food in flavors, was awarded in China the title of the 4th second-to-none food in Tianjin.Still,other locally-known snacks include: Zhang’s Guoren, Cao-cooked donkey meat, Dafulai Guobacai, ShiTouMenKan Vegetable Baozi, Zhilanzhai Gaogan, Tiebobo Aaoxiaoyu.However,Tianjin people are accustomed to breakfasting necessarily on Dabing,Bangcui Guozi, bean curd with flavorings,GuobaCai,soya-bean milk,Huntun,Jianbing Guozi.

Tianjin Dining Guide