The best places to eat in Qingdao are: shrimp dumplings, sea sausage with leeks, eel, roasted whole pig's head, stinky tofu with kung pao skin eggs, and Qingdao beer.

It is highly recommended that you go to the market and buy your own seafood and cook it yourself. Cheap and good quality. I live in Laoshan District and usually go to the pier market in Shazikou and the market in Fushan Hou to buy.

Shazikou more fresh, open sea season at four or five o'clock in the morning to start wholesale, the morning is mainly sold to sell bulk; Fushan after the market in the first two years of remodeling, clean and tidy, classification is reasonable, the variety of super-complete, with a lot of natural markets in the country is not quite like. The price is a little higher but still very affordable.

Qingdao's local seafood is known for its sweet and fresh flavor, and oyster prawns, seared prawns, kiwi prawns, green prawns, shrimp tigers, scallops, sea rainbows (mussels), clams, razor clams, and so on, have this characteristic, so try to keep the original flavor of the ingredients in the cooking, and choose to use the steaming method of production. The small oyster shrimp is a regular on the local table in Qingdao, with its unassuming appearance but delicious flavor and no hint of sea odor.

The larger shrimp its head will inevitably have a fishy flavor, can be used in a small amount of oil will be ginger, whole peppercorns after frying, and then add water to cook to remove the fishy. These types of seafood can be handled by buying an induction cooker, and oysters (sea oysters) can also be cooked if you have a larger pot.

Qingdao also has another seafood specialty, called "Moujou", which is essentially a very small shrimp that is not very easy to buy.

It is usually used to make egg soup. After popping the scallions in a pan and stir-frying them, add the egg mixture, let it set, then add water and dried seaweed and boil. Other ways to serve it are similar to raw shrimp paste, but with a lighter fishy flavor, and it's great as a topping.

When dining out, you need to try all kinds of jellyfish (a type of jellyfish) products, with famous dishes such as cold jellyfish and cabbage stewed with jellyfish lizi, as well as jellyfish banquets like the one in Huangcun, which are made into a whole table. However, the latter is very difficult to see nowadays. Gum white prawns also belong to the famous dishes, but the restaurant has Bohai shrimp or even Argentine shrimp indiscriminately, Argentine red shrimp is extremely fishy, be sure to avoid this mine.