Waisha Island is a long strip of small sand islands in the north of Beihai city, an area of about 450 acres, only a few dozen meters away from the land bank, through the only bridge to the city of Beihai Waisha Bridge, you can board the Waisha Island from the city of Beihai. When the formation of the outer sand island has been unrecognizable, in the feudal era until the liberation, has been to oars for the family, fishing for the business of the water family egg family settlement. Between Wai Sha Island and the city's land bank, formed a natural harbor Wai Sha Inner Harbor, the egg family's fishing boats to go out to sea to catch fish return that is moored in the harbor. Egg family in the old society has long suffered discrimination, those who have a home on land on the land people are not allowed to be considered inferior to the egg family to live on shore, the egg family in addition to live on the boat, the land people do not care to live in the sand of the outer sand island to build a number of bamboo and wooden structures on the beach to live in the stilts, these sheds are known as the egg family hut.
The Egg Family has been drifting on the sea for generations to catch fish, and because the hulls of the fishing boats they live on are somewhat shaped like eggshells, they are called Egg Family. It is only natural that their menu is based on seafood such as fish, shrimp, crab and snail. The egg family cooks fish, shrimp, crab and snails differently from the land people, and their distinctive aroma wafts with the wind to the land people's homes not far from Wai Sha Island, making the land people salivate.
Prior to the reform and opening up, in the context of the national economic silence, the egg family of the North Sea sand island also quietly live their own days, every day cooking their own family against the winds and waves from the sea to catch up the fierce seafood, on a cup of seafood soaked in local wine slowly savored. They would never have imagined that their seemingly simple home-cooked meals would revolutionize the face of the outer sand islands.
In the early days of reform and opening up, the Egg family's flavor made its debut, and the humble stalls couldn't hide their popularity
The Egg family's awareness of commodities awakened along with that of the rest of the nation in the early days of reform and opening up. Tsim Sha Tsui on the east side of the outer sand island, there is a family dare to venture into the sea of eggs family, in their own eggs family shed opened the first seafood stalls on the outer sand island, will be their own fishing boats from the sea to catch back to sell out and can not eat the raw seafood cooked in the egg family's way, low-priced sale to those who can not afford to enter the high-grade restaurants restaurants lead to sell the pulp of the people over the seafood addiction. Business was surprisingly hot, making more money than the wind and waves driving a boat to the sea to catch seafood. So led to the past only know to the sea to make a living egg family members have to follow suit, seafood stalls soon as a spring in the outer sand island, one after another. To the early 90s of last century, with the development of Beihai, big construction boom continues to heat up, there have been 72 seafood stalls on the outer sand island, the formation of a few egg family seafood food as the characteristics of the stalls street. Investment in seafood stalls here has been not only egg family, but also many local Beihai land people, and even the provinces to the land people. Eaters also from the lead car sold pulp gradually become Beihai local and from all over the country flocked to the tourists.
Then, the seafood stalls on Waisha Island were still very simple. There were no booths or air-conditioning in the sheds, which were haphazardly built with wooden poles and bamboo sheets, and the tables were all set up on the beach. Diners feet stepping on the white sandy beaches, eyes looking out over the evening sea, two ears listening to the music of the tide, so that the gentle sea breeze blowing all over the body, drinking seafood soaked on the soil wine chewing raw seafood, there is a cozy feeling. The humble Waisha seafood stall, business is therefore particularly prosperous.
Whenever the sun sets over the sea, all kinds of cars carrying diners and tourists from home and abroad drive across the narrow Waisha Bridge and into the dining area of the seafood stalls on Waisha Island. Parked row by row in front of the cluttered seafood stalls, you can't find a parking space or a seat to dine if you come a little late. Each seafood stalls inside and outside the bamboo hut, are filled with diners who speak a variety of accents, such as folk wedding banquets generally lively, becoming a unique landscape that many hotels and restaurants in downtown Beihai envy. Outer sand island's fame is also getting bigger and bigger, so in the Beihai tourism industry popular saying: come to Beihai not to eat seafood is not really to the Beihai, in the Beihai eat seafood to eat out of the island to eat seafood is not really eat seafood.
Toward the end of the last century, the neon flashed and new attractions were presented, and the stalls were gradually replaced and upgraded
Toward the end of the 90s of the last century, Beihai City's planning and construction departments accepted the suggestions of Beihai's citizens and tourists, and thought that they should upgrade the taste of the Waisha Seafood Stalls, so as to make it match with Beihai's beautiful cityscape. So the outer sand seafood stalls carried out unified planning and design, the original messy, extremely simple bamboo and wood shed all demolished, paved the straight road, opened up a wide parking lot, covered up dozens of steel pipe for the column, asbestos tiles for the top of the two-story new seafood shed, shed in addition to a spacious and bright to enjoy the sea view of the large restaurant, but also has a card with an electric fan and air-conditioned The restaurant is spacious and bright, with a view of the sea. In order to attract more tourists, dozens of new-style seafood huts are trying to create egg family flavor and fishermen's culture. Some in front of the shed on one or two hanging white sails of small fishing boats, some will be decorated as a flat boat seat, some will be built into a fishing cabin box, hanging on the outside wall of the fisherman's straw raincoat, bamboo hats, the foot of the wall is placed in the fisherman's fishing rod and bamboo fish traps. Door curtains and curtains are large and small fish nets, restaurant and card seats, box lighting, all in the shape of fishing lamps. The largest new-style seafood barns simply call themselves egg family shed, every day, invited to singers and dancers, in a stage like a fishing boat for diners to perform fishermen's songs and dances to help eat sex. Outer sand island has become a famous tourist attractions in Beihai to eat famous, tourist season, every day to receive Chinese and foreign tourists more than 10,000 people, in recent years the annual reception of Chinese and foreign tourists more than a million people, occupying half of the seafood catering industry in Beihai, in Beihai formed a play in the Silver Beach, eat in the outer sand of the new pattern of tourism.
In the dawn of the new century, nine functional areas cover the outer sand island, the egg family style modern atmosphere coexist
Time into the new century, Beihai City, through the international bidding, the Silver Beach for re-planning and design and large-scale renovation at the same time, but also for the outer sand island for re-planning and design and large-scale renovation. The planning and design of Wai Sha Island was undertaken by the internationally renowned tourist attraction planning and design expert, Belgolin Hong Kong. It emphasizes the design concept of returning the sea to the people and promoting the seafood cuisine culture to the extreme. In the continuation and development of the Wai Sha Seafood Island on the basis of good quality and low price stall style, the full integration of Wai Sha Seafood Island's advantages of the sea, fishing port, food and egg family style advantages, Wai Sha Seafood Island will be built into China's largest seafood distribution center and the world's largest seafood catering culture area. The newly planned Waisha Seafood Island is divided into the entrance plaza area, Beihai local specialties restaurant area, Indonesia theme restaurant area, Singapore theme restaurant area, Vietnam theme restaurant area, live seafood market area, dry seafood market area, Yuanqi Park and water recreation activities in the area of the nine functional areas, focusing on the Beihai Egg family style and the Southeast Asian countries style.
Beijing overseas sand seafood island renovation project by the Beihai Industrial Company investment and development, divided into two phases. The first phase of the project is covering an area of 250 acres of open seafood theme park, with a total construction area of 90,000 square meters, divided into four categories of buildings: the first category is with the Japanese style, Indonesian style and Beihai egg family local flavor of seafood restaurants and restaurants, the second category is the Vietnamese style pedestrian street, the third category is the seafood market, and the fourth category is the Pearl Bay Hotel. The second phase of the project is a 200-acre coastal leisure resort hotel group. in February 2001, the first phase of the project groundbreaking, after two years of construction, the current Japanese style and Indonesian style seafood dining area, Vietnamese style commercial pedestrian street and seafood market has been completed and put into use.
From the Vietnamese-style commercial street to the east, there are dried seafood wholesale and retail market, pearl wholesale and retail market and live wholesale market.
The dried seafood wholesale and retail market is the largest dried seafood trading center in the Beibu Gulf area, where more than 400 dried seafood wholesalers and retailers from coastal provinces and Vietnam operate a variety of dried seafood made according to the traditional craftsmanship of Beihai's fishermen, attracting tourists who have just tasted the delicious seafood to come and buy.
Pearl wholesale and retail market, Guangxi's largest trading center for sea water pearls, the exhibition and marketing hall of a pearl, the main exhibition and marketing of Beihai produced sea water pearl pearl pearl jewelry, pearl medicine, pearl cosmetics and pearl health care products. There is also a pearl culture exhibition hall and pearl quality identification center, not only to allow tourists to understand the production of pearls, processing and the long history of pearl culture, but also free for tourists to identify the authenticity of the pearl, to prevent counterfeits from entering the market, to ensure that tourists to buy the real price of saltwater pearls and pearl series products.
The live seafood wholesale market is located at the easternmost end of the seafood gourmet island of Wai Sha, covering an area of 15,000 square meters, with a fishing boat unloading dock, a large parking lot and cold storage. There are also 70 large live seafood rearing pools, Beihai fishermen from the Beibu Gulf waters to catch a variety of sea fish, sea shrimp, sea crabs, sea snails, sea turtles and sea worms. Unloaded from the pier stocked in the live seafood pool, customers can choose, after packaging, loaded on a large transport vehicle specializing in the transportation of live seafood, shipped to all parts of the country.
Today's Wai Sha seafood food island, has really formed a view of the sea and listen to the tide of seafood, picking beads and picking up shells to buy seafood tourism pattern. 2002 to the Beihai tour of more than 3.8 million tourists from home and abroad, the vast majority of the Wai Sha seafood food island to taste the delicious seafood. According to the plan, Beihai Waisha seafood island renovation project is completed, may create three Guinness World Records: one is to become the world's largest theme seafood island, the second is to have the world's largest seafood pond, the third is to have the world's largest seafood catering and cultural area, can accommodate 15,000 people at the same time to taste delicious seafood. At that time, Wai Sha Seafood Food Island, whether from land or sea, will be a desirable paradise on earth.