Milk Soup with Cattail Shoots

Milk Soup with Cattail Shoots

　　Milk Soup with Cattail Shoots is a signature dish from Jinan, made primarily with tender, snow-white, and delicately flavored cattail shoots harvested from Daming Lake in Jinan. It is cooked with moss vegetables, winter mushrooms, sliced ham, and enriched with creamy milk broth. This dish has long been hailed as Jinan’s premier soup course.

　　Milk Soup with Cattail Shoots is one of Jinan’s traditional and famous delicacies and also a standout dish in the city's Spring Water Banquet. The cattail shoots come from the shores of Daming Lake. The "Milk Soup with Cattail Shoots," made with creamy milk broth and fresh cattail shoots, was already very famous during the Ming and Qing dynasties and remains highly regarded to this day. The soup is milky white in color, with the cattail shoots being crisp, tender, fragrant, and deliciously light—making it an excellent choice for a summer soup. It is often referred to as the “Crown of Jinan’s Soup Dishes.”