"If food can talk, getting to know a city through the tip of the tongue is the most direct and effective communication."
Located in Dalian, the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, there is an innate beauty that is rare in northern cities.
It has mountains and seas and romance, and many precious human customs are produced here.
From a small fishing village to today's coastal city, Dalian hides different merits and names in Bohai cuisine.
The IP that belongs to the taste of Dalian, Xu is the cherry blossoms in April, the sweet cherries and apples, the clear sea water in summer, the Dalian dialect with a strong "sea oyster flavor" at the end of the streets and alleys, witnessing the youth of the coastal road, the Russian style street, the passionate football, the International Beer Festival, the clothing festival and so on.
But for a coastal city, how can the taste be less important than freshness?
Life is full of flavors, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty can be described, only "fresh", it is difficult to hide.
Dalian, relying on the unique advantages of the sea at 39 degrees north latitude, produces the world's sweetest and fattest seafood.
The more delicious the ingredients, the less complicated the dish needs to be carved, and the steaming is moving enough.
After the fresh seafood is steamed, the moment the lid is lifted, the air will be filled with the salty and umami taste of seafood, and the taste is full of natural temptations.
"Seafood Family Portrait", "Fried Oyster Locust", "Prawns", "Raw Sea Urchins", "Steamed Bohai Knife"...
Haipai Dalian cuisine, which combines the characteristics of seafood + Lu cuisine + Liao cuisine, is named as its dish, there is no fancy name, only fresh ingredients into the dish.
Without special cooking skills, you can arrange a good hard dish on the table, if you are still willing to modify it with your heart, it will be terrible, wait for seafood on a table, and the national banquet in minutes is visual!
Original, salty and delicious, less juicy and less mustard, simple and popular, giving you the feeling of being as smooth and direct as this party of water and soil.
No matter who you are or where you come from, in Dalian, in the general direction of "lang wei fresh", you will never be confused.
Thorn pot (sea urchin) sea oyster (oyster) bo snail (conch) basso (octopus), oh mai ya (my god) fresh to the sky!
No way, who let them grow in Dalian at the junction of the Yellow and Bohai Seas?
The seafood in two mixed waters gives birth to all the sweetness and toughness of the sea
As soon as the word "seafood" appeared, it seemed as if something was about to happen.
Yes, so many varieties of seafood, so many fresh, which ones best represent Dalian?
Dalian people want to promote seafood pride, and outsiders want to eat the most representative Dalian flavor - this question, they all desperately want to know the answer.
"Dalian cuisine", the Dalian umami IP, should have debuted in the C position long ago.
On April 28, 2021, the "Dalian Must Order" project sponsored by the Dalian Municipal Government was officially launched in Ganjingzi District, and the selection of "Dalian Sound" and "Dalian Taste" at the city level of the three eastern provinces was launched.
After the nomination of catering practitioners, the check of food experts, and the media organizers comprehensively considered the geography, history, representativeness of ingredients, palatability of dishes, mass foundation, commercial foundation and many other links, the organizing committee selected 20 "Dalian must order" candidate dishes.
The ingredients cover eight kinds of seafood raw materials of the seafood family portrait, which can be compared to the Guangdong Buddha jumping off the wall; Dalian scallops are famous throughout the country, garlic scallops must have a name; sea oysters are dalian's oyster locusts, fried oyster locusts can not be missed; Bohai knifefish, Hermes in knife fish, Dalian specialties, steamed eating method must be tried; sea intestine dumplings, must experience the soul delicacy at least once in a lifetime, pick, push, and only Dalian has! Onion oil conch, Dalian's conch is particularly delicious and fresh, not recommended or people??
It is true that every dish can be said to be the first half of the night, which dish has enough reason to break into the top ten!
As the official designated press and publicity officer of this event, Lan happily told everyone: This time, the voting option is given to you - which must-order dishes that you think are rare enough to have no friends on behalf of Dalian? This public account end to participate in the vote can pick to send it C bit debut!
After the birth of the 10-course must-order dish, we will also follow up and report which restaurants in Dalian are the most authentic, after all, we are a food media responsible for the stomach of fans. (Shy)
In the eyes of outsiders, Dalian cuisine is more like horseradish dipped in seafood, "I can't eat it at first, but then I can't do without it"... You can't hold it alone, but you run into its arms without hesitation.
Returning to the sea is the most inclusive stage in life, and it is also the reason why we like Dalian cuisine.
If you are from Dalian, these 20 familiar Dalian dishes will make you feel more intimate;
If you are a foreigner, you can understand Dalian feelings in these 20 dishes;
If you are a real foodie, going to the beach once a year to eat seafood is the most basic respect for life;
If you love to shoot vlogs, Dalian countless streetscape seascapes, a random shot has the potential of explosive hots.
There is a passage that says: To support the economy of the northeast, heavy industry is barbecue, and light industry is live broadcasting.
I would say that one of the motivations that keeps me alive is seafood.
To put it bluntly: what's the matter, go to Dalian to eat seafood, why not put it on the agenda?!