Dalian's shellfish carvings come in all shapes and sizes. There are precious large-scale shell carvings with ingenious workmanship, as well as small ornaments with several delicate shells worn together, and Dalian shell carvings are the first special crafts in Liaoning. Shell carvings are perfect in composition, colorful, realistic and lifelike, with three main themes: birds and flowers, landscapes and people.
Specialties: Eight treasures of the sea
Sea cucumber: valuable seafood. In particular, the quality of the northern sea cucumber is the best. The "five lines of ginseng" produced in Changhai County, Dalian City, is called the "king of ginsengs", with high nutritional value, and is listed as the first of the "eight treasures of the sea".
Abalone: a gastropod soft-bodied sea shells, abalone foot muscular, tender and delicious, rich in nutrients. The shell of abalone is large and thick, the name of the stone, can be used as medicine. Bao is also one of the "eight treasures of the sea", known as the seabed soft gold.
Scallops: because of its external image of the fan, so named. Fresh scallops after cooking can be directly eaten fresh, but also can be dipped in condiments and eaten. The scallops will be taken out of the diced sun-dried, can be made into the famous sea treasures - dried scallops.
Shrimp: beautiful body, meat is delicious, tender, nutritious. Dalian is China's shrimp is one of the main production area, the spring shrimp meat is the most fat.
Clams: also known as clams, Dalian area common clams, sand clams, clams, bird clams, clams, etc. dozens of species, boiled, cold, stir-fried, stuffed, the flavor are good.
Sea red: also known as mussels, flavorful and nutritious, is an important seafood that Dalian people like to eat.
Arkshells: also known as hairy clams. They mainly live in the soft mud near the sea, and their meat is tender and plump, with excellent flavor.
Oysters: also known as sea oysters, can be cooked and eaten fresh. Fresh sea oysters can be cooked into fried oyster shells after deep-frying. Put oysters and sauerkraut together in a stew, can be made into sea oyster hot pot.
Specialty: Apples
The cultivation of apples in Dalian began in 1902 and has a history of 100 years. The production is the first in the country, accounting for one-third of Liaoning Province. Therefore, it is known as the "Hometown of Apples", and there are more than 120 varieties of apples, such as Guoguang, Zhuguang, Red Marshal, Yellow Marshal, Indian, Fuji and so on.
Specialty: Peaches
Dalian has many varieties of peaches. Spreading peach, flowers withered that is the sweet taste; nectarine, smooth and fluffless, like plums; golden yellow golden peach, sweet and sour aroma; peach, juicy and flavorful; "yellow dew", "yellow sweet" storage resistance, tender flesh, is the processing of canned goods of the excellent varieties. Dalian is the largest production base of yellow peaches.
Specialty: Cherry
Dalian cherry **** there are five kinds, namely, originating in China's Yangtze River Basin, Chinese cherry, mountain cherries, European sour cherries, European sweet cherries, hybrid cultivated Dalian sweet cherry. Varieties are "original red", "sunrise", "early abundance", "Na Weng", "red light", "red honey" and so on.