The delicious foods in Qingdao are: shrimp dumplings, leek sausage, eel, roasted whole pig's head, preserved eggs and stinky tofu, Tsingtao beer, etc.
it is strongly recommended that you go to the market to buy seafood and cook it yourself. Cheap and good quality. I live in Laoshan District, and usually go to the wharf market in Shazikou and the market behind Fushan to buy.
Shazikou is more fresh, and wholesale is started at 4: 11 or 5: 11 a.m. in the opening season, and bulk goods are mainly sold in the morning. The market after Fushan was transformed two years ago, clean and tidy, with reasonable classification and super complete varieties, which is not quite like many natural markets in China. The price is a little higher, but it is still very affordable.
Qingdao's local seafood is known for its sweetness and freshness. Oyster shrimp, sea prawn, metapenaeus ensis, green shrimp, shrimp tiger, scallop, sea rainbow (mussel), clam and razor clam have this characteristic. When cooking, try to keep the original flavor of the ingredients and choose to cook them. Small oyster shrimp is a frequent visitor to Qingdao's local dining table. It is unattractive but delicious, without any fishy smell.
The head of a larger shrimp will inevitably smell fishy. Ginger slices and whole pepper can be fried with a little oil, and then boiled in water to remove the fishy smell. The above kinds of seafood can be processed by buying an induction cooker, and oysters (oysters) can also be cooked if the pot is bigger.
There is another seafood specialty in Qingdao called "Junhuo", which is actually a very small shrimp, which is not very convenient to buy.
generally used to make egg soup. Stir-fry chopped green onion, add the final product, stir-fry until fragrant, add the egg liquid, add water and dried laver to boil after it is set. Other eating methods are similar to raw shrimp paste, but the smell is lighter, and it is also good as a topping.
If you go out to eat, you need to try all kinds of jellyfish products. The famous dishes are cold jellyfish and stewed jellyfish lining with Chinese cabbage, and some are made into a whole dish like Huangcun jellyfish banquet. But the latter is hard to see nowadays. Gummed white prawns are also famous dishes, but there are Bohai prawns and even Argentine prawns in restaurants. Argentine red prawns are extremely fishy, so we must avoid this thunder.