The cicadas chirped, and the summer ensued. On such a "hot and humid" day, many people will choose to go to a relatively cool place to travel to escape the heat. If there's a lot more good to eat in this cool place, it's even more perfect.
Coincidentally, Qingdao is such a delicious and cool summer resort. The average summer temperature in Qingdao is 23 °C, and at the same time, as a first-tier city with mountains and seas, it has abundant products and rich resources, and its cuisine is the oldest Lu cuisine, which perfectly meets the requirements.
Qingdao cuisine has also been coveted for a long time, and Qingdao cuisine belongs to the three branches of Lu cuisine: Jinan cuisine, Kongfu cuisine, and Jiaodong cuisine in Jiaodong cuisine. The practice of the five cities of Jiaodong can be subdivided into three kinds: "Yanwei cuisine", "Qingri cuisine" and "Weifang cuisine".
Small harbor pier
In the long-term foreign exchanges, Qingdao cuisine has further absorbed and integrated many different food cultures. Therefore, Qingdao cuisine can be described as a school of its own.
Plastic bag beer about 10-15 yuan / catty
In addition, Tsingtao Beer has become a resounding business card, and the freshly beaten beer in plastic bags is only for Qingdao's "limited delicacy", and the cold mouth has a sweet return.
So what are you waiting for? Taitai immediately set off for Qingdao to explore what delicacies the "Switzerland of the East" had to taste.
Before leaving, Taitai asked a local friend to understand what is the authentic Taste of Qingdao from some old Qingdao, and did not expect to get a variety of answers. After careful study, I realized that the original practice of the same dish, Guangtaidong Taixi (the two areas divided by the east and west sides of the Beacon Ridge in the old days), was different.
However, relying on the sea to eat the sea is definitely inseparable from the word "fresh". It represents both the freshness of the ingredients and the deliciousness of the taste. Different approaches are only because of different emphases and different ways of embodying freshness.
01 | Pen tube roast meat
Pen tube roast meat 52 yuan
Just got off the train, hungry, fortunately, not far from qingdao railway station there is a predetermined target - "Shunxi Hotel".
It's a 27-year-old shop that, according to its old diners, moved from Shouzhang Road to Xizang Road, then to Guancheng Road, and now to Guangzhou Road. And they have been chasing and eating, but it is really true love.
Pen tube roast meat is almost a must-order at every table, thick oil and red sauce, the pen tube is softer than expected, but also with some crispy texture. For those of us who are hungry, it is really a gift of food.
02 | Fried pork belly
Fried pork belly 56 yuan
Fried meat is not a very difficult dish, but it is difficult to fry until it is caramelized, and it is easy to overstate it with little experience, and a piece of charred fried meat can destroy a whole pot of fried meat.
Compared to the fried pork ribs and fried tenderloin that Taiwan often eats in Shanghai. Pork belly has a little more fat in it, so the requirements for heat are actually higher. If you grasp the heat just right, you can taste the caramel of lard and the crispness of pork.
Our meal time is three o'clock in the afternoon, which is not the time of the meal, but there are also locals who come to pack a special fried pork belly, which shows the popularity of this dish.
03 | Braised prawns
Braised shrimp 52 yuan
Braised prawns are undoubtedly the representative of Jiaodong cuisine, the prawns are bright red, the fresh shrimp meat is very sweet, with the sauce salty and sweet. Whether it's a meal or a beer, it's perfect.
We chose a shop called "Nameless Snacks", although it is called "Nameless", but in fact, it is a very "famous" 37-year-old shop. Braised shrimp is also the signature of this shop, which is praised by both locals and tourists.
04 | Braised yellow croaker
Braised yellow croaker 42 yuan
Chinese love yellow croaker, and Braised Yellow Croaker in Qingdao is one of the most delicious methods.
The yellow croaker is fried to be crispy, but at the same time retains a certain amount of garlic cloves. The taste is slightly sweet and salty, close to the Shanghai Ben Gang practice. After the fish has been fried, the small spines are already soft and can be eaten with the small thorns.
05 | Spicy squid strips
Spicy squid strips 45 yuan
The spicyness of Qingdao cuisine mainly plays a role in refreshing, and the spicy taste is very slight. Spicy squid strips are actually the dominant sweets. From the outside, it looks like pot-wrapped meat or sweet and sour tenderloin, but it is actually a squid strip that bites open with a bouncy tooth.
For this dish, we found a 26-year-old restaurant , "Kowloon Restaurant". The shop's spicy squid strips have a slightly thicker batter on the outside, but a solid and elastic texture on the inside.
This shop also made a deep impression on Taitai, which is a very pyrotechnic fly restaurant. When there are many people, there are queues of more than ten meters on the street, and the day we went was still full of customers until the store closed.
The owner, with medium-length hair, ordered a few dishes for one group of guests and immediately turned to another. A word "say" is simple and powerful, the guest immediately reported a few dishes that he had thought of, and the boss immediately turned to the next batch, with a pen in his hand and a constant order in his heart.
06 | Clams cabbage
Clams cabbage 22 yuan
Clams are called "Gala" in Qingdao, and in addition to the most common spicy stir-fry, it is also very good to stir-fry with Chinese cabbage. The cabbage retains its crisp and tender taste, and the clams bring some umami flavor. This combination is surprisingly well matched and is also suitable as a small dish.
07 | Pot roasted flounder head
Pot roasted deep-sea flounder head 198 yuan
Pot roasted flounder head can be said to be a hard dish, flounder is flounder. It is a bit similar to the "opium fish" often eaten in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially because it is eaten with fish heads, so many people will mistakenly think that it is the same kind of fish.
In fact, although opium fish is also a flounder, it is a "catfish family", and the difference between the flounder of the "flounder family" is the position of the eye, remember the "left flounder right flounder" can be distinguished.
We picked the "Kaihai" shop, and its flounder head is one of the signatures. The taste is indeed worthy of the signature, the flounder meat is full and firm, and the traces of fish meat are stained with the secret sauce, which is salty, sweet and fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless. We still remembered this dish on our way back to Shanghai.
08 | Sea sausage fishing rice
Sea sausage rice 39 yuan
Sea sausage rice is a low-key dish, compared to other seafood rice such as shark fin rice, the price of sea sausage rice can be described as close to the people and delicious.
The crunchy texture of the sea intestine, paired with leeks and minced meat, is a clever fusion. Leeks were used as spices in ancient China and are one of the "five spices" that can be fresh and fishy.
Therefore, the three actually played their own strengths and learned from each other's strengths. You may feel "not amazing" as you eat, but when you look back, you will find that it is already disced.
09 | Flowing Pavilion Pig's Trotters
Liuting pig's trotters 39 yuan
When Taitai was very young, he once tasted the trotters of the Liuting pig brought back by relatives, and he was deeply impressed at that time. "Hoof jelly" is a major feature of the trotters of the liuting pig, don't look at the hoof frozen black seems to be very salty, in fact, only with a little salty and sweet taste, can even be described as refreshing.
The exquisite Liuting pig's trotters must be frozen with old soup, and the pig's trotters are bright in color and soft in taste but not sticky. When I took the first bite, I immediately remembered the picture of myself sitting on the sofa while nibbling on the pig's trotters while watching a movie when I was a child.
10 | Cockpit
Langya clam chicken 88 yuan
In addition to spicy stir-fried clams, roasting clams and chicken together is also a common practice in Qingdao. The taxi driver told us that the best clam chicken he had ever eaten was made from a chicken walking on Laoshan Mountain. It was delicious, and although it was much more expensive than in the city, he still thought it was worth it.
Although we did not go to Laoshan, we agreed that this dish was very delicious after tasting it in the city. Qingdao people really take advantage of the "small and fresh" characteristics of clams, and many dishes are the finishing touches.
11 | Sea vegetable cold powder
Homemade Qingdao cold powder 19 yuan
All over the country under the name of "cold powder" food stations have eaten a lot, but sea vegetable cold powder has always been heard but has not eaten. In fact, the raw material of sea vegetable cold powder, stone cauliflower, is also one of the raw materials for making agar.
Therefore, the sea vegetable cold powder itself has no superfluous taste, how you season, it is what taste. The common ones will add garlic paste, chopped coriander, sea rice, etc., and the seasoning is mainly slightly sour and slightly fresh. Just like the cold powder in other regions, it is a cool appetizer to eat.
In the few days in Qingdao, in fact, most of the foods that we remember most are light meals and snacks. It's not that the meals are not delicious, it's that the light meals and snacks are too good.
12 | Rib rice
(Wan He Chun) Spine Meal 24 Yuan (Wan He Chun) Spine Meal 24 Yuan
Rib rice, a simple meal, but really great, so good that we were willing to eat it twice during a stressful trip. Qingdao's rib rice is not a rib with heavy sauce, but a thin soy sauce soup ribs.
Ribs are usually backbones or ribs, stewed in a unique sauce soup that is very crisp but not boneless. There are many lean bones, and they are all with bone flesh, which greatly satisfies the platform that loves to gnaw bones. Eating hard and ignoring the image, directly grab it and nibble it.
(Friend edge) rib cartilage 27 yuan
The ribs are different, the ribs are fat and thin, and there is a strong meat aroma. Some shops will also remove the bones, only sell rib cartilage, and go down with elastic teeth in one bite, full of oil.
The rib soup is also super suitable for bibimbap, and I feel that I have not eaten such a simple but solid delicacy in a long time.
The two companies we chose were Wan Hechun and Friends. Wan He Chun is an old shop in Qingdao, and the first mention of "row rice" in Qingdao will think of Wan He Chun, which is also one of the most crispy rib stews.
Friends are far from our range, but it turns out that his home has not disappointed us. Pushing open the plastic curtain, I saw a different kind of fireworks. There are more people in the shop than on the road, and many of the customers are obviously residents or regular customers in the surrounding area, chatting with the boss while eating.
According to the personal taste of the platform, I think that the ribs of the friendship are a little more delicious than Wan Hechun, and the soup is also equipped with a little more side dishes to make the soup more delicious.
13 | Seafood dumplings
(Boat Song) Family Portrait Dumplings 79 yuan
Qingdao's mackerel dumplings are famous, and you must eat a meal of mackerel dumplings when you come to Qingdao. However, in order to taste more, we directly ordered family dumplings.
Different shops, the content of the family portrait is not the same. However, most of them are concentrated in these categories: sea urchins, mackerel, cuttlefish, shrimp, yellow croaker and so on.
(Boat song) Mackerel dumplings 39 yuan
Among them, mackerel dumplings often put a little leek to freshen, for those of us who are foreigners, the mackerel dumplings in the restaurant are delicious enough. But locals always feel that the stuffing they wrap at home is strong and delicious.
Kaihai family portrait dumplings 88 yuan
Taitai also likes sea urchin stuffing and shrimp filling, these two ingredients are originally very fresh, sea urchin dumplings will be a little burst juice, shrimp dumplings are very elastic, all show the fresh sweetness of seafood.
Mackerel dumplings naturally can not escape the boat song, the boat song relies on mackerel dumplings have opened shops in many cities across the country, and Taiwan has also eaten in Shanghai. This time in Qingdao, we chose the oldest Minjiang Erlu store, the old shop has just been upgraded, and we can also eat roast duck authorized by Da Dong.
However, we also know from the mouth of an old Qingdao that the taste of the boat song may not be enough to be "old Qingdao". There are also dumplings in the aforementioned Kaihai, which you can choose by yourself.
14 | Wild ravioli
Shrimp ravioli 15 yuan
Qingdao is one of the few cities where ravioli and dumplings have equal status. In Qingdao, the pomp and circumstance of eating wild ravioli can be large or small. The origin of the word "wild" is that it is a transliteration of "night", because most of the wild wonton stalls are out of the night.
Many wild wonton stalls also sell barbecue (or elsewhere, you can), and we chose the popular "Haiping Wonton". This is arguably the most "crowded" meal we have eaten in Qingdao, with small shops packed with people who teach you what it means to rub shoulders.
Egg yolk ravioli 15 yuan
Most of the dumplings are stuffed, and the wontons are mostly soups, but Haiping's soup is also good, and the filling is even better. As a Shanghainese who loves to eat salted egg yolks, the first bite of Taitai's signature egg yolk wontons is directly called: "This will definitely catch fire in Shanghai!" ”
Microwave large intestine head 8 yuan Microwave chicken heart 3 yuan
There are also a variety of microwave skewers that must be ordered at each table in the store, which as the name suggests, are skewers baked in the microwave. Instead of drying, it is wetter than charcoal grilled, and it does not burn, making it healthier.
Microwave tendon meat is so popular that it has been sold out, and we can only buy two strings of microwave chicken hearts and microwave large intestines. Tender and fragrant, the chicken heart will burst out of the juice, Taitai really wants to pack another twenty strings to take away.
15 | Teppanyaki squid
Squid claw 6 yuan Squid skewer 8-15 yuan
Plate squid is found all over the country, but not much is really done well, because the meat quality of the squid will become loose after ice, so the freshness of the ingredients is very demanding.
Qingdao's teppanyaki squid, the most famous should be Wang Jie barbecue. The part of the squid board, the flesh is very elastic, not soft at all loose. The squid must be fully glued to the special sauce, with a sweet and salty taste, but girls should be careful when eating, and there is no image when dipping a face of sauce.
16 | Puff pastry
Puff pastry bread 4 yuan
On the way to Qingdao, a local friend of Taitai specially added to Taitai: "If you have the opportunity, try the puff pastry bread of Shunxing Food." ”
Bread? What's so delicious about this, isn't Taiwan eating enough in Shanghai? But friends keep recommending, saying that there are many children nearby from snacks to big. It wasn't until Taitai personally bought one that I found that it was indeed different.
The puff pastry is coated with peanut butter because it is well hydrated and the inside is very dense when baked. It must be worth drinking! The ignorant platform was filled with mouthfuls of bites, and it took a long time to slow down.
Now this time to Qingdao, in addition to participating in the beer festival, there are some more unique food experiences are also worth a try.
17 | Seafood markets and beer houses
Yingkou Road Seafood Market
First and foremost, of course, is the beer house. Many seafood markets in coastal cities have supporting seafood processing shops, and in Qingdao, they are called beer houses.
In terms of choosing seafood markets, the most famous is the seafood market on Dengzhou Road. But every local we met told us not to go. A Qingdao native said bluntly: "Don't go to Dengzhou Road, I'd rather go to Yingkou Road, Yingkou Road may be slaughtered, but at least Yingkou Road locals will also go." ”
We were a little crying, but finally decided to go to Yingkou Road Seafood Market. Yingkou Road Seafood Market was specially decorated into Tang Feng, and the slaughtering we were worried about did not happen, and the market side also posted a notice prohibiting the slaughtering of customers.
Of course, just in case, we also got a way to be sure not to be slaughtered from the locals in advance: to buy it with uncle and aunt. When there was a grandpa and aunt buying, they boldly went over and asked the stall owner for the price. The stall owner will never dare to kill you, because if a high price is quoted, the uncle and aunt next to him will immediately accuse the stall owner of pitting people.
Solicitation is not allowed in the market, but there will still be "gentle solicitation", that is, when you buy seafood, you are always with you and give you advice. This is difficult to avoid in many places, and overall, the Yingkou Road Seafood Market is fine, and it is not too much stalking. Everyone decides whether to accept it according to their own needs.
TuanDao Farmers Market
We went to the TuanDao Farmers' Market, which is much larger than Yingkou Road and has a variety of ingredients. You can also buy a unique snack in Qingdao - fat residue.
Fine edge grease residue 96 yuan / catty
Although the grease residue looks oily, it is actually like walking oily meat, and some of the oil has been removed. Those who are afraid of oil can buy lean ones and taste them.
Taxi drivers told us that the most important thing for the seafood market and the beer houses around it was to ask the unit price clearly. Some unscrupulous merchants quote prices without units, you think it is 20 copies, the result is charged you 20 a.
Small shellfish processing oil spilling method about 25 yuan / kg
Avoiding this price trap, beer houses are actually much the same in terms of taste. So we randomly chose a beer house, in fact, the beer house does not make much money on processing fees, mainly relying on wine. The owner is very real, we did not order wine he is still harmonious, the taste of the dish is also very good.
Taitai has been to many local seafood markets, and the processing shops near the market often use simple cooking techniques to highlight the original taste of fresh seafood. At this point, the seafood processing houses in the country and even the world have reached a tacit understanding.
18 | Tsingtao Beer Museum and official store
Tsingtao Beer Museum
Many Qingdao locals have recommended beer museums to us, and the museum is indeed more attractive to the xijing platform than the oktoberfest.
Pulp Beer is free of charge in the museum
In the museum, you can learn about the history of Tsingtao Beer and see the whole process of beer making. For friends who love to drink, the most important thing is to drink a cup of original beer for free.
There is also an official restaurant in the museum, where you can taste various derivatives of beer such as beer ice cream and hop coffee, which is also very interesting.
Eat shrimp first eat skin 68 yuan
In addition, Tsingtao Beer also has an official store in the city, called "TSINGTAO1903". There is a "shrimp first eat the skin" table in the shop is very fond of, just like the name of this dish, the shrimp skin is fried very crispy, even crisper than potato chips.
One by one plus 68元
Another table-to-order is "One by one plus," a platter of five different beers. My favorite is the white beer, refreshing but able to taste the malt aroma of beer, with a faint citrus flavor.
At the same time, this shop is also a good place to experience Qingdao's nightlife, with a resident band, and each table is ordered with its own favorite wine and one or two appetizers. The closest to the stage are the regulars, and interaction with live bands often evokes an atmosphere throughout the bar.
Qingdao is really a wonderful place, and there are very few places that can make the platform walk for half a day and immediately feel good. It's rustic, and a lot of the dishes don't care about the presentation and don't have rich colors. It is very cozy, the climate is pleasant, the scenery is beautiful, and every local calls it a pension city.
But at the same time, it is very high-end, and the maglev with a speed of 600 km per hour has just rolled off the production line, representing the world's most cutting-edge technology. It was very kind, and every local who talked to us was very rational and friendly.
It is worth coming and experiencing it yourself.
You may also find out as readers that we are not wandering by the sea. Like all coastal tourist destinations, if you want to discover authentic food in Qingdao, you need to advance 3-5 kilometers from the coastline, or simpler, collect our Qingdao food guide.
Small Easter eggs
On the left is a normal bun, on the right is a large steamed bun in Qingdao, and the breakfast has not been eaten for two days...
Text | taro
Pictured | Zhong Heng
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