Dalian is a young city, and its residents are mainly immigrants from all over the country. Northerners are the earliest settlers. Dalian cuisine is not systematic, mainly northeast cuisine, Shandong cuisine and seafood. Generally speaking, Dalian people belong to the northern taste, which is fresh and salty, heavy in taste and fond of stewing. Influenced by Shandong cuisine and Japan and South Korea, seafood likes the original flavor and raw food. Influenced by Beijing cuisine, meat likes to be seasoned with anise, star anise and coriander. In recent years, under the situation that Sichuan cuisine has occupied the whole country, more and more Dalian people have begun to love spicy food.