: Qingdao Specialties
1. Salt and Pepper Shrimp Tiger
Jiaozhou Bay is rich in shrimp tiger, a nutritious and tender seafood. It's also a home-cooked dish on the local dinner table. Salt fried shrimp tiger, flavorful, fragrant, fat brain full of pulp, sweet and tender in the mouth.
Recommended restaurant: Lai Zhi Shun seafood restaurant
Super hot seafood restaurant, but there are many kinds of seafood. The scallops in oil are delicious and have a great flavor. Roasted oysters tender and chewy, spicy fried clams, salted shrimp tiger, pork are very good.
Address: No. 14C Hubei Road
Transportation: Take subway line 3 to Qingdao Station and walk there.
2. Jellyfish
Jellyfish is one of the top ten famous snacks in Qingdao. It is made from frozen seafood unique to Qingdao. It has high nutritional value and can be eaten in all seasons. Qingdao people often make snacks and drinks in summer, which are cool and delicious.
Recommended Restaurant: Wanxin Restaurant
The city's famous seafood restaurant is in a compound in Badaguan. The Chinese cabbage is known as the classic of classics. Cabbage mixed with a lot of shrimp oil, red color, sweet and elastic. The fried clams are as fresh as ever.
Address: 10 Zheng Yang Guan Road (Badaguan)
Transportation: Take subway line 3 and get off at Zhongshan Park subway station, which is a short walk away.
3. Spanish Mackerel Dumplings
Bayu dumplings are a specialty in Qingdao. Spanish mackerel migrate to Qingdao offshore every spring. The meat of the Spanish mackerel is tender and fresh, which is a specialty of Qingdao people. The boiled dumplings are crystal clear. The flavor is fresh, pure, fragrant, but not greasy, with a lingering aftertaste.
Recommended Restaurant: Republic of China Seafood Dumpling House
A well-known restaurant near Qingdao Railway Station, decorated in the Republic of China style. Here you can order seafood dumplings, which are colorful and delicious. The restaurant's cooking is also very good. Republic of China pulled pork, spicy fried clams, first-class seafood tofu are great.
Address: No. 31 Zhongshan Road
Transportation: Take subway line 3 to Qingdao Station and walk there.
4. Laoshan Mushroom Stewed Chicken
Laoshan Mushroom Stewed Chicken is one of the representative dishes of Qingdao. Choose the local rooster within one year, stewed into the original soup. It goes without saying that it is delicious when stewed with Chicken Laoshan Mushroom. This dish is characterized by tender chicken, smooth Laoshan mushrooms and fresh soup.
Recommended restaurants: Sea Steam Fresh Steamed Seafood and Copper Plate Barbecue
The restaurant's door is very distinctive, with an impressive sign that reads, "We're steaming explorers". The walls of the store are decorated with anchors, rudders and hats, while the lampshades are made of rattan, and the various marine elements are very atmospheric. The seafood at this restaurant is said to be fished from the sea by our own boat. The seafood displayed at the entrance is fresh and very appetizing.
Address: 96 Zhongshan Road, diagonally across from China Cinema.
Transportation: Take subway line 3 to Qingdao Station, and you can reach it on foot.
5. Sauce Pot Stickers
Qingdao's traditional famous fresh pot stickers. With pork as the main filling, chives, dried seaweed and scallops are also added. The good or bad of the skin of the three fresh potstickers represents the master's ability to make the three fresh potstickers. The top quality of sanshin pot stickers is the skin is well made, and it is flavorful and not greasy to eat.
Recommended restaurant: Gaojia Pot Stickers
Hidden in the snack street is an old pot sticker store, the store's signboard is very old, the store is small but clean. Gao pot iron is known for its unique flavor, fluffy texture and very tasty. Among them, the shrimp and tiger pot sticker is the ace pot sticker of this store. The filling is made of peeled shrimp and pork, and the flavor is great.
Address: 16 Hebei Road, Split Chaiyuan (near Zhongshan Road)
Transportation: Metro Line 3
6. Clam Noodle Soup
Qingdao's old traditional noodle dishes, the noodle skin is bumpy and smooth, the clam meat is fresh and tender, and the soup combines the flavor of green onions and oil and the delicate taste of clams, which is sweet and mellow, and brings back a long lasting aftertaste.
Recommended restaurant: small seafood seafood restaurant (Xiaogang Mingcheng store)
This restaurant is not a big store, but the price is very high
Address: 42 Guanxian Road (Guanxian Road and Huimin Road intersection)
Transportation: Metro Line 3
7. Pork ribs and rice
Qingdao is the birthplace of the pork ribs and rice, and the island city of a unique cuisine. The earliest stores have a history of more than 80 years. Nowadays, Pork Ribs Rice has been recognized as one of the top ten famous food in Qingdao. The cooking process of Pork Ribs Rice is not complicated, but the important thing is that the pork ribs still keep their unique fresh flavor after stewing, so that the meat does not go to the bone and falls off in the mouth. The rice is fragrant but not greasy, delicious and calcium.
Recommended Restaurant: Wanhechun Spare Ribs Casserole Rice (Taidong 8th Road Branch)
This restaurant is a very famous fast food chain brand in Qingdao, and is loved by old Qingdao people. Its ribs and rice are cheap and tasty. The pork chop meat is stewed crispy and fragrant. It draws the soup from the bone marrow, which is rich and delicious, and the fragrant rice is a perfect match, with a very good price-performance ratio.
Address: Junction 66, Taidong 8th Road (next to Lianglaishun Hotel)
Transportation:
Public **** Transportation
1. Take No. 19, 28, 32, 119, 206, 212, 219, 222, 227, 229, 314, or 320 to Yan'an Rd. North Station. You can walk there after getting off the bus.
2. Take No. 307, No. 314, No. 320, No. 322 Ring Road to Changchun Road East Train Station and walk there.
8. Spicy Fried Clams
"Ha beer! Eat clams galore!" has become a common understanding of Qingdao. Clams are flavorful and nutritious. They are the most commonly eaten seafood in Qingdao, and spicy fried clams are the most common cooking method. This dish is made with clams as the main ingredient, with green onion, ginger, garlic and other auxiliary ingredients. It is not very spicy at first, but the spicy flavor gradually penetrates, and the combination of freshness and spiciness gives a long aftertaste.
Recommended restaurant: Qianhaiwan (Thumb Shop)
This restaurant is famous in this island city. It has restored the architectural style of the old western houses, and with the name of Qingdao Road as the indication, it makes people feel more intimate. In addition to the "Qingdao flavor" of the restaurant's environment, the restaurant also strives to integrate multiple aspects from the floor plan, space to the dishes, using the old Qingdao method to cook authentic food, cooking the comfort and deliciousness of home-cooked food.
Address: 4/F, Thumb Plaza, No. 880 Tong'an Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City
Transportation: Take bus No. 19, 28, 102, 125 or 230 in the city and get off at the bus stop of Fudou Jiayuan and walk.
9. Qingdao Seafood Barbecue
The most popular barbecue is here. Meat kebabs, hoof meat, squid plate, squid catch, squid teeth, squid head, meat tendon must be ordered. You can enjoy the night life of authentic Qingdao people by drinking beer, barbecuing and blowing the sea breeze in the stalls.
Recommended restaurant: Sister Wang's Barbecue
In Qingdao, almost no one knows about Sister Wang's barbecue, the flavor is simply amazing. When you think of that big squid, your mouth is full of oil and the barbecue is hard to eat. I love it!
Address: Pingxiang Road, No. 58, Dashan Bao City, Building 13, 1 floor, Shop A2 A
Transportation: Metro Line 3
10. pennyroyal fish fried leeks.
Pencilfish is a favorite of Qingdao people and a specialty of the island city. The general practice of fishermen is to fry leeks. Both pennies and leeks don't eat fire, and it's quicker to make this dish. But it also keeps the original flavor and texture of the ingredients.
Pencilfish is a slender cuttlefish that looks very similar to squid. Many people in Qingdao call it a small squid.
Recommended Restaurant: Yuanyu Soup Bao Seafood (Shantou Road)
The restaurant that specializes in a variety of seafood dumplings also serves tasty stir-fry specialties. There are many kinds of soup dumplings here. Squid soup dumplings and yellow croaker soup dumplings are the signatures, with thin skins and juicy fillings, and must be ordered at almost every table. There are also popular snacks and side dishes such as crabmeat soup dumplings, skinny congee with egg, pineapple goo and dried cauliflower. The dining environment here is also quite comfortable and cozy.
Address: No. 5 Shantou Road (near Chenghai Road)
Transportation: Metro Line 2
1. Sea Cucumber with Minced Pork
Sea Cucumber with Minced Pork is a traditional Qingdao famous dish, which has the fresh aroma of minced pork and maintains the fresh flavor of sea cucumber. Sea cucumber is listed as the first of the eight treasures of the sea because of its warm and nourishing nature, which is better than ginseng. It has always been highly respected by people. Minced meat with it adds to the flavor of sea cucumber. Foam sea cucumber color bright
Restaurant next to the train station, the store is not really taste but very authentic. The famous dish of braised abalone has a good reputation. Steamed and poured the secret sauce on the abalone with a spoon, fresh and delicious. The abalone is big, full and tender. In addition, the spicy fried clams, garlic dried scallops and garlic oysters are also popular dishes in the restaurant.
Address: Next to Ginza, No. 18 Xiaoyun Road, Shinan District, Qingdao (near Wusi Square of the municipal government)
Transportation: Take subway line 3 to Qingdao Station, and it is a short walk away.
12. Deep Fried Conch
Conch is a deep-water specialty of Qingdao. There are many dishes made with conch in Lu cuisine, and fried conch is one of them. The black-skinned conch produced in the shallow waters of Qingdao's Hongdao Island has tender meat and a delicious flavor. The fried conch made from this material is fresh and tender, very tasty and has a Qingdao flavor. This dish has been honored as the excellent dish of the first Lu Cuisine Grand Prix and one of the top ten representative dishes of Qingdao.
Recommended restaurant: Qiaojiaodong
Good reputation, high popularity, elegant and cozy environment of home cooking. Authentic Jiaodong cuisine produced. Every dish tastes great. Fresh ingredients, color and flavor. Fire-roasted plum meat, iced pickled snails, plate ribs fried cabbage and so on. All are specialties of this restaurant.
Address: 116 Zhangzhou Road (near Zhangzhou Second Road)
Transportation: 314 Road/228 Road/374 Road at Fuzhou South Road Station.
: Qingdao's Famous Food Streets
1. Qingdao Beer Street
In order to build Qingdao's beer culture, Qingdao Municipal Government has decided to transform Dengzhou Road into a beer street, which is the road in front of the old Qingdao Brewery site (No.56 Dengzhou Road). Dengzhou Road is a street with a long history, and the vein of Qingdao beer for a hundred years starts from here. The beer street starts from Yan'an No.2 Road in the east and ends at Guangrao Road in the west, with a total length of nearly 1,000 meters. Beer characteristics are highlighted through the construction of special beer bars, the opening of a beer museum, and the establishment of cultural and leisure venues. The buildings of the whole street have been re-lighted and remodeled according to the European style, and the decoration of the stores on both sides of the road is also integrated with the whole street. The most eye-catching is the road color - green, the first colorful road in the province. Currently, there are 60 food and beverage enterprises offering beer on Beer Street, especially Tianxiang Restaurant located at No. 5 Yan'an 1st Road. Their house serves original beer and is patronized by tens of thousands of diners every day.
Address: No.56 Dengzhou Road, Shibei District, Qingdao (near Taidong Wedding Street)
Transportation: Take bus No.15, No.205, No.302, No.306 and get off at Taidong (Beer Street) stop.
2. Chopping Yard - Zhongshan Road Characteristic Snack Street
Chopping Yard is a must-visit food street for every first-time visitor to Qingdao, and it is also the earliest food street in Qingdao. It is a neighborhood surrounded by Zhongshan Road, Beijing Road, Hebei Road and Tianjin Road. It is surrounded by Zhongshan Road in the east, Beijing Road in the north and Tonghe North Road in the west, which is in the shape of "human". After the German occupation of Qingdao, they built roads here and slowly developed the area. After a long time of change, now on the basis of the original, a small street gathered seafood, snacks, barbecue and other kinds of food. There are many bars and restaurants on the main street. In addition to famous restaurants such as Yuanhui Tang, Li's Dumpling House, and Zhang's Altar Pork, there are also many humble little food stores, candy stores, bookstores, and amusement parks. North Street mainly sells cooked meats, such as Texas Steak Chicken, Fushan Roast Chicken, Southern Tripe, and Soy Liver. The street is said to be famous for potstickers, zaotai baozi, chaos, and bean curd dumplings.
Address: 166 Zhongshan Road, Shibei District, Qingdao (Zhongshan Road and Jiangning Road, a small road opposite Zhongshan Road)
Transportation: you can take No. 2, No. 2 Tram, No. 5 Tram, No. 205 Loop, 218 Air Conditioner, No. 222, No. 228, No. 231 Loop, No. 301, No. 305, No. 320, No. 325, No. 366, No. 3, No. 7 Tunnel to Zhongshan Road, walk to
3. Minjiang Road-Small Yun Road Food Street
Minjiang Road-Small Yun Road Food Street consists of two food streets: Minjiang Road and Small Yun Road. People often refer to this street as Zhongyuan Food Street, Minjiang Road Food Street and Xiao Yun Road Food Street. It is located in the north side of Qingdao's most popular seaside tourist attraction (Wusi Square, 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition Venue) in the new city center, surrounded by internationally renowned supermarkets such as Jiashek and Carrefour, and a number of high-star hotels in Qingdao. It forms a modern urban circle with reasonable structure and complete support, integrating sightseeing, dining and shopping, bringing great convenience to tourists and citizens. No matter day or night, there is always a lot of traffic around Minjiang Road Food Street. Especially during the midday and evening meal times, the street that stretches for miles is filled with traffic and the stores are filled with scents and tantalizing smells. To cope with the rush of traffic, most of the food stores and restaurants set up additional seating outside their doors along the street. At night, the entire neighborhood is lit up like day, scented for miles, and bustling with activity.
Address: Shinan District, Qingdao, Shandong Province
Transportation: Take No. 374, 228 or 314 in the city and get off at Fuzhou South Road Station.
4. Sifang Road Food Market
Qingdao's barbecue came from Xinjiang. Because Sifang Road was originally a commercial place, most of the Xinjiang people who sold barbecue at that time gathered on the present Sifang Road and set up stalls. There were a lot of people and business was good. Now although it is no longer a barbecue hosted by the Xinjiang people, but Qingdao has a unique style of barbecue.
Address: Sifang Road, north of Qingdao No.7 Middle School, Qingdao, Shandong Province
Transportation: Qingdao Sifang Road Vegetable Market via bus: 228, 308, 212, 218 air-conditioning, 2 trams, 6, 221 air-conditioning, 1.
5. Taidong Third Road Pedestrian Street
Taidong Third Road Pedestrian Street is Qingdao's busiest commercial area. With Taidong Third Road Pedestrian Street as the center, it radiates to the surrounding neighborhoods, forming the famous Taidong Business Circle and the lively Taidong Night Market at night. Taidong Third Road Pedestrian Street is characterized by a large number of people, eating, drinking, entertainment, shopping, everything.
Weihai Road divides the entire Taitung Pedestrian Street into two sections, northwest and southeast, of which the northwest section has a lot of leisure stops where you can have a drink and sit down for a rest; the southeast section is dominated by shopping. This area is home to large commercial enterprises such as Wal-Mart, Wanda Plaza, Baixin Shoes, Liqun Group and Suning Electric Appliance, as well as hundreds of individually owned stores.
Currently, the pedestrian street is the largest hand-painted street in China. It can be seen that the walls of the 21 commercial and residential buildings on both sides of the Walking Street are covered with interesting large-scale colorful paintings, forming a unique colorful gallery.
Address: Taidong Third Road, Shibei District, Qingdao City
Transportation: Take bus No. 11, 19, 28, 119, 119, 125, 226, 229, 232, 320 and get off at Taidong First Road Station.