Everyone is clear, go to Qingdao is sure to eat seafood, because Qingdao seafood prices are cheap, and seafood marketed throughout the year, it is not soon to spring, in the spring time is the most suitable to eat Spanish mackerel, but you can also take advantage of the winter to taste the sea cucumber and abalone.
Eating seafood in Qingdao is all about seasonality, scallops and Spanish mackerel are the most delicious in spring, squid in summer, crabs and oysters in autumn, sea cucumbers, abalone and conch in winter, and clams all year round.
Food StreetSince you want to eat seafood, you definitely still need to know about Qingdao's seafood street, in the split courtyard around the dense distribution of many seafood stalls, and Yunxiao Road Food Street and Maidao Road Food Street is a gourmet gatherings, a lot of restaurants are live seafood yo.
1. cleavers courtyard food street
This is a high neighborhood consisting of several old streets, is the most lively commercial center of Qingdao in the 1920s-1990s, there is no expensive seafood, but there are a lot of relatively affordable seafood stalls and snacks, and the sea urchin, starfish and grilled squid is a common street food here. common street snacks.
2. Yunxiao Road Food Street
This food street consists of two food streets, Minjiang Road and Yunxiao Road, where the most classic seafood dish is seafood steamboat, which is a variety of seafood placed in a cauldron and smothered in steam to retain the maximum amount of seafood in the water and original flavor.
3. Mai Island Seafood Street
This place is close to fishing villages, so fresh seafood supplies are plentiful, and it is also a major transportation route in and out of Laoshan District Tourism, so it has always been one of the most important seafood food street in Qingdao.
Seafood Market InventoryQingdao has a lot of large-scale market, there will be a lot of "processing" around the beer house, you can buy fresh seasonal seafood to the nearby restaurant processing taste.
Yingkou Road market near the beer street street, so the longest business hours, the latest to 10:00 p.m.; the old city of Tuan Island Farmers Market seafood prices are the cheapest; while the Nanshan market seafood variety of the most complete; Xiaogang seafood market seafood portions.
1. Yingkou Road Market: long business hours
This is Qingdao's liveliest seafood market, generally can be open until 7:00 p.m., to be 2-3 hours longer than the other market hours, the summer will last until about 10:00 p.m., in the afternoon, after the market after 4:00 p.m. near Taidong Eight Road, Taidong Six Road, Changping Road, etc., will spontaneously form a "road seafood market".
There are more than a hundred beer houses in the streets around this area, and after selling the seafood you can go directly to the processing, the price is much cheaper than the beer street, near the bridge. It's not a good place to drive, with narrow, congested roads.
2. Nanshan Market: full variety
Nanshan Trial Company Qingdao's largest seafood market, where there are common local seafood, but also see lobsters, bread crabs, elephant trunk mussels and other rare foreign seafood. However, the seafood prices here Meijia different, to comparison shopping, and also have to bargain, there are also many seafood processing stores around.
3. Tuan Island Morning Market: low prices
Seafood stalls are located in the negative layer, after the annual opening season, the sea caught up the local seafood prices affordable, clams, fish, etc. to be cheaper than the other markets 2-5 yuan.
4. Xiaogang seafood market: portion is sufficient
This seafood market is close to the pier, the goods are fresh, and the merchants give the portion is always sufficient, after the checkout stall owners will give a few extra seafood. Crabs and live prawns are the most popular seafood at Xiaogang Seafood Market. The best time to buy is from 3pm-5pm.