What are the local specialties of Jining?

Jining is a famous historical and cultural city with a rich variety of local specialty foods. Here are a few of them:

1. Beef jerky: Jining beef jerky is a kind of dried meat product with unique flavor and delicious taste. Historically, the Jining area is rich in high-quality grassland, which makes the local beef production high and cultivates the skill of making beef jerky.

2. Quancheng Roast Duck: Jining's Quancheng Roast Duck is different from Beijing Roast Duck, mainly because of the traditional Quancheng seasoning added during the roasting process, which makes it more flavorful.

3. Gui Hua Cake: Jining's Gui Hua Cake, formerly known as "Gui Hua Cake", is a traditional pastry of Jining with a long history. It is made of high-quality glutinous rice, sugar, osmanthus flowers, mung bean flour and other raw materials, with a soft and sweet taste.

4. Horse honey: Jining is one of the national production areas of dense honey from horse bees, with high production and excellent quality, rich flavor and high sweetness, which has the effect of nourishing the skin and tonifying the blood, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs.

5. Smorgasbord: Jining Smorgasbord is a famous local dish that brings together a variety of features of Shandong's local cuisine, with excellent color and flavor.

All in all, Jining's local specialties have a wide variety of unique flavors and are an important part of Jining's historical and cultural heritage.