On September 26th, the 2nd Scallop Food and Culture Festival of Beidaihe, China was grandly opened at the Shell Kingdom Science Museum in Beidaihe New District!
The event was guided by the China Oceanographic Society, qinhuangdao beidaihe new district management committee, Qinhuangdao foreign affairs and commerce bureau, Qinhuangdao tourism and culture radio and television bureau, Qinhuangdao municipal bureau of oceanography and fisheries, Qinhuangdao city science popularization association, Qinhuangdao tourism association, Qinhuangdao city hotel cooking and catering industry association co-organized, Qinhuangdao wanbaoluo tourism co., LTD., Qinhuangdao rainbow shell tourism development co., LTD., Qinhuangdao shell kingdom science museum.
This year's Scallop Food and Culture Festival starts on September 26 and will last until October 8. During the Scallop Food and Culture Festival, nearly 100 well-known seafood catering enterprises in Qinhuangdao will exhibit various kinds of popular seafood delicacies, with preferential prices and high-quality food, so that tourists can feast on their mouths. In addition, during this year's Scallop Food and Culture Festival, a series of activities will also be held, such as the Internet Red Food Show, the Qinhuangdao Local Food Culture Tasting, the Soft Biological Nutritional Value and Healthy Food Forum, the Scallop Food Culture Tasting, the Scallop Culture Science Popularization, the Food Literature and Art Tour, and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition. It brings visitors a dual experience of taste and vision, allowing visitors to "feast their eyes" while "feasting on" in a food paradise.
The Scallop Food culture festival highlights the theme of "promoting gastronomic culture and promoting tourism development", which is appreciated by both elegant and customary, and fully embodies the characteristics of "industrial, cultural, international and mass". Relying on scallop food resources, the cultural festival carries out a series of activities of "tasting, appreciating, swimming and appreciating" through publicity and display of marine science culture and scallop food culture, and strives to create a stage for displaying shellfish products, tasting healthy food, disseminating marine science popularization, and promoting traditional culture. The holding of the Food and Culture Festival has strengthened the exchange and cooperation between the tourism and gastronomic circles in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, improved the level of skills, trained the industry team, and demonstrated the characteristics of the city, which will play a positive role in further improving the marine economy of Qinhuangdao Beidaihe, stimulating the development of the tertiary industry, expanding the popularity of Beidaihe, and promoting food culture.
It is reported that Bohai Bay is located in the warm temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, with a mild climate, shallow water flow, and water bodies affected by coastal runoff are rich in nutrients and suitable for a variety of shellfish life. Beidaihe New Area coastal water quality is clear, natural distribution of scallops, mussels, clams, clams, clams, Philippine clams, oysters, abalone, pulse red snails and other more than ten kinds of shellfish; with the development of scallop farming industry, the new area has become the main scallop breeding area in China due to excellent substrate conditions and water quality conditions, and the annual output of bay scallop farming can reach about 40% of the total annual output of bay scallops in the country.
Text: Qi Jia
Editor: Li Zhicai
Editor-in-charge: Liu Fuqing
Supervisor: Wang Xun