Shandong - Rizhao, Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai
Rizhao
Rizhao, due to its proximity to the Yellow Sea, is a city that develops mainly in the transportation and fishing industries. However, this year, Rizhao's tourism industry has gradually developed, and there are many good-looking churches and beautiful scenery by the sea, making it a city where the human touch and the taste of the sea coexist. The hospitality of the locals makes visitors feel at home, and Rizhao's neighboring waters of the Yellow Sea are home to many varieties of seafood, such as swordfish, yellowtail, blackfish, lightfish, cum hooker, Spanish mackerel, clams, prawns, pike crabs, and more.
Qingdao
When you talk about Qingdao's seafood, it's only natural to mention the Tsingtao beer. A well-known Shandong saying goes "Ha beer, eat clams (ga la)". Clams, scallops, pike crabs, Spanish mackerel, and yellow croaker are abundant here, and spring and summer are the best seafood seasons, while autumn is the season when sea crabs are the most plump. Fresh seafood is also available in most restaurants in Qingdao, with steaming and stir-frying predominating. The specialty seafood markets around the train station, Zhongshan Road and Yingkou Road, as well as processing stores, allow you to buy seafood from the market and bring it over for processing, which is more cost-effective. Qingdao seafood, with a glass of cold beer and a cool sea breeze, that is really unlimited enjoyment. In Qingdao, seafood has been the memory of almost everyone's life. However, Qingdao's overall consumption should be slightly higher than most cities in Shandong.
Yantai
Yantai is a low-key seafood city, Yantai is not as glittering as Qingdao at the other end of the spectrum, but it is a "treasure city" in the north, with a rich historical and cultural heritage, and great prospects for development. Yantai is rich in seafood, sea fish and shrimp is also indispensable to the table of the people of Yantai delicious. Double-digit sale of shrimp, fat head of Pipi shrimp, meat thick red shrimp, tender small seafood Peach Blossom Shrimp, sea fish is even more varied, like Spanish mackerel, swordfish, Gaji fish, turbot, yellow bone fish, autumn swordfish and so on. There is also Yantai Laizhou's three-warp pike crab, which is one of the best seafood in Yantai, with firm, plump meat and lots of seeds, so you can get a heavenly taste just by steaming it. Steaming is the best way for fishermen to honor their seafood, while barbecuing is the mainstream practice for Yantai seafood, and spicy stir-fry, soy sauce, stewing and dry-frying are also no big deal for Yantai people.
Weihai
Weihai is a small city surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a 900-kilometer-long beautiful coastline, producing a wide variety of shellfish and fish. Weihai is the first city in Shandong Province to produce seafood. The low salinity of the sea and the abundance of bait on the seabed make Weihai's seafood extraordinarily "fresh", thanks to its unique geography. For real seafood lovers, you must go to the pier to buy! The dock goods the same day out to sea the same day fishing, absolutely fresh and cheap. Heqing beach there are some restaurants will have their own small fishing boat, seafood on the boat in the net pocket, in the sea to raise, to ensure that are live and fresh. There is a "hometown of Chinese oysters" reputation, oysters fat and beautiful big. Brush cleaning pry open after you can eat raw, can not eat raw can be steamed, dipped in seafood soy sauce.