Is it expensive to eat
General B&Bs have catering services. Most of them are 80-150 yuan per person and 30-50 yuan for seafood noodles or fried rice. Most of the restaurants on the island are concentrated in the Dawang Beach Catering Street, Dawang Village, Dogfu Island. Eating at restaurants and eating at B&Bs each have their own specialties, both good and bad.
Whether you stay in a beach hut or not, you can go to the beach B&B to eat. You can have noodles for 25-30 dollars and food for 60-80 dollars. You don't order the food, it's the ingredients in the store that dictate that. Home cooked food is also more cost effective.
During May-July, because of the fishing ban, you can only catch fish and can't drop nets. So eating seafood outside is still more expensive, if you have your own seafood supply will be cheaper. In the evening there are many barbecues at Dawang Beach in Dawang Village and at the center of Shengshan Island, but you should pay attention to hygiene. Most of the seafood here is frozen.
Besides going to restaurants, you can also buy your own food at the market and go to BB. the owner of BB will do it for you instead of you doing it yourself, but you will be charged a processing fee of 20 yuan a dish.
You can eat seafood noodles if you want to save a little bit, and you can eat instant noodles by yourself if you want to save a little bit. There are supermarkets in Dawang Village and Shengshan Island Center on Qiji Island. Breakfast can be eaten at the three forks of the road in front of the food court in Dawang Village. There are soybean milk and doughnut stores and baozi stores, you can also eat seafood noodles in the B&B or outside restaurants.
Food Recommendations
Traditional specialties on the island include tigerfish and tofu soup, tigerfish and pickled vegetable soup, seafood soup with clams, headfish and tofu soup, celery and rice fish soup, various kinds of braised fish, various kinds of steamed fish, flour mopped small yellowtail, salted yellowtail soup, braised squid, meat branch sai soup (small abalone), steamed egg with meat branch sai, barnacle soup. Boiled/garlic roasted local mussels (thick-shelled ones), boiled Maoniang (miniature mussels, all wild), boiled/braised shrimp, boiled crab, boiled/pepper-salted Peppered shrimp, stuffed snails with dipping sauce, deep-fried snails, hot snails with pickled peppers, boiled hot snails, and more.
As for seafood specialties on the island, Bian Xiao suggests buying shrimp and dried eel, while most others are wholesaled from Zhoushan Island. Or go to the Dawang Village food market or Shengshan Island aquatic market to buy the freshest seafood before you leave in the morning, and use a foam box with ice in the food market.