Rizhao is rich in products, and there are many local specialties. Specialties include seafood, green tea, ginkgo, peanuts, apples, chestnuts, pancakes, cocoons, vegetables, asparagus and so on.

Seafood Rizhao east of the Yellow Sea, with nearly 100 miles of coastline, the existing 20-meter isobath within the shallow sea area of 60 to 70,000 hectares, 5060 hectares of coastal mudflats, seawater aquaculture development potential is huge.

Rizhao offshore there is one of the country's four major fishing grounds in Haizhou Bay fishing grounds. There are rich variety of aquatic products, including fish, shellfish, algae, etc., among which golden squid, Xishi tongue, stonewort is not only of excellent quality, but also the most concentrated coastal production area in China.

Where all rivers enter the sea, fish are rich and precious. There are 86 common species, mainly yellow crucian carp, yellow mackerel, Spanish mackerel, mackerel, belt, pomfret, bimac, white mackerel and green scale fish. Among them, yellow crucian carp, Spanish mackerel and squid are the most productive. Shallow sea and the tidal flats of the main seafood products are Xishi tongue, clams, arkshells, clams, razor clams, sea cucumbers, rockweed, as well as famous at home and abroad artificial shrimp, seahorses and so on.

1, shrimp

Shrimp is Rizhao City, the famous sea treasures products, it is long and flat side, crystal bright, fat and tender meat, flavorful, nutritious, indispensable for high-level banquets on the delicacies. Shrimp in addition to fresh food, but also can be processed into headless shrimp, shrimp and pincer seeds rice, etc., are seafood.

2, fish eggs

Fish eggs for Rizhao City, unique sea treasures, a long history, famous both at home and abroad, according to legend, for the feudal emperors imperial cuisine. Wu fish eggs by Rizhao specialties gold squid wrapped egg gland processing, its color milky white, like eggs, can be processed into a petal-like, paper-thin high-level food. According to the Qing dynasty Kangxi fifty-four years "Rizhao County Records", "squid fish in the mouth with eggs, one of the eight treasures in the sea. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, squid eggs have been listed as tribute.

3, scallops

Scallops are one of the precious varieties of marine shellfish. Scallop meat is tender and tasty, is internationally recognized as a high-grade aquatic products. Dried scallops called dried scallops, containing an average of 5.43% of liver sugar, but also contains ammonia, succinic acid, etc., for the "world's best".

4, Xishi tongue

Ancient Yue Xishi female, beauty extraordinary. Xishi tongue shell large thin and brittle, outer shape like a fan, handsome form, axe foot shape flat like a tongue, white as jade, known as Xishi tongue. This clam shell mollusks full of tender meat, taste delicious, clam meat containing a variety of amino acids, nutrients are very rich, have moistened the lungs, the effect of Yin.

Ginkgo Ginkgo tree, is China's ancient valuable tree species, known as the "living fossil". Modern science has proved that its leaves, fruits and skin have high medicinal and edible value, and the flavonoid glycosides and terpene lactones extracted from the leaves have special efficacy in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, as well as slowing down the aging process, anti-virus and anti-cancer effects, and the development of medicines, food, health care products, cosmetics and so on, which have been popular in the world market. The "world's first ginkgo tree" grows in the territory of Fulaishan Town. For thousands of years, this tree is proved to be the world's longest tree age of four thousand years old "Ginkgo King" has attracted a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists to travel and sightseeing. Since 1996, the town of Fulaishan invested 10 million yuan in Fulaishan, "the world's first ginkgo tree" built under the 10,000 acres of ginkgo gardens, forming a "Ginkgo King" as a leader, to the main body of the ginkgo park, mountains and forests, lush ginkgo gardens of 10,000 mu Scenic area, become famous as another new landscape of the Fulaishan tourism area. Relying on 10,000 acres of ginkgo base, the town has built a ginkgo biloba tea factory, ginkgo health products factory. With the development of science, human progress, the intrinsic value of the ginkgo will be further developed and utilized, the ginkgo industry has broader prospects for development.

Peanuts Rizhao peanuts are characterized by large, full, sweet and tasty, oily and not greasy excellent quality, popular at home and abroad. Rizhao peanut has a long history of planting, production experience, Rizhao for the national peanut commodity export base, the annual processing of peanut products more than 100,000 tons, such as peanut butter, refined peanut oil, milky peanuts and other high-quality products.

Apple The main varieties of apples are "red Fuji", "Guoguang", "white powder skin", "Zhu Guang" and so on. The main varieties are "red fuji," "guoguang," "white powdery skin," "zuguang," and a dozen other high-quality varieties, with high yields and superior quality.

Chestnut Rizhao development of chestnut production has a long history, the territory of fertile soil, plenty of light, abundant rainfall, a variety of natural conditions are very suitable for chestnut growth. Chestnut chestnut, large, full, full of oil, resistant to storage, the flesh is mostly golden yellow, rich in glutinous, sweet flavor, easy to peel off the skin. Donggang District, Huangdun town of the existing 8,000 acres of ordinary chestnuts, with an annual output of 2 million kilograms. In recent years, the town party committee and government to implement the "one industry to develop the town" project, the chestnut production as the town's leading industry to grasp, after five years of development and construction, the development of high-quality Japanese chestnut 23,000 acres, become the national high-quality Japanese chestnut production of the first town, the total annual output of up to 1 million kilograms.

Pancakes for Rizhao folk main food, the main wheat flour, sweet potato flour, millet flour, cornmeal as raw materials, twisted into a thick paste, on the hot and beach branding and into the pancake as thin as paper, yellowish tone, fine sweet, soft and delicious. Wheat as the raw material for the production of pancakes, with fresh tofu and chili, it is beautiful

Taste delicious, Taiwan's & lt; & lt; Shandong literature & gt; & gt; Records: yellow crucian carp fish rolled pancakes, one of the best for the Rizhao food, long time to eat not tired of eating convenient, easy to save.

Cocoon The city mulberry area of 130,000 acres, the annual output of 8,000 tons of cocoons, respectively, ranked third and second in the province, the production of white factory silk in the international market has a high reputation. Single cocoon silk average length of more than 100 meters longer than the provincial average.