As a coastal city, Xiamen's dry seafood is a local specialty. The most common ones include shrimps, dried shrimps, scallops, sea red, dried squid, dried cuttlefish, dried snail meat, dried whitebait, shark's fin, dry sea cucumber, dried abalone, fish maw, laver and kelp.

Xiamen, which belongs to Fujian Province, is also called Ludao, or Xiamen and Heron for short. It is a sub-provincial city, a special economic zone, an important central city, a port and a scenic tourist city along the southeast coast. Xiamen is located at the southeast end of Fujian Province, bordering Zhangzhou in the west, Nan 'an and Jinjiang in the north, facing Dajinmen and Dadan Island across the sea in the southeast, and is a major city in southern Fujian. It is also known as Xiamen-Zhangquan Minnan Golden Triangle Economic Zone with Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.