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“Dalian Food” Nietsreuef’s photos around Dalian, China (food in dalian china)

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Entry from: Dalian, China
Entry Title: “Dalian Food”

Entry:

“Food of Dalian Except for the white rice and noodles, the food in Dalian would not be familiar in a Chinese restaurant in the US. Dalian food is a combination of Manchurian (Lu), Korean , Japanese, and Russian. The primary ingredients are vegetables and seafood, some meat and poultry, tofu (called doufu here) always cooked in combination with sauce for a formal meal. The most popular vegetables are onions and cabbage (or lettuce – you can’t tell the difference after it’s treated with the sauce). Carrots, potatoes, and yams are also available as is corn-on-the-cob. You can find tomatoes and beans in the markets, but they don’t show up much on the Dalian plate. The Koreans have also made an industry out of kabobs, which are very popular street food. Octopus, squid, chicken heads, feet and all other parts; pork balls (not that kind!), snouts, intestines; sea bass, even goldfish are available on many street corners, cooked off the back of bicycles or on open grilles over wood and charcoal. It’s not that uncommon to see a barbecue taking place in a street pothole. Several streets have become outdoor cafes where the sidewalks are lined with the charcoal grilles, tables and tripod seats about 8″ off the ground. Smoke and grease everywhere. The smell of fried octopus is something awful – like the dumpster in the alley behind the Peacock the morning after Happy Hour. On pleasant evenings, these streets are packed cheek-to-cheek with diners. The chefs prepare tables full of kabobs of every kind plus vegetables and some wrapped combinations. Patrons take a plate and load up whatever they want cooked, hand it to the chef, drink beer while they wait a few minutes for the grille, then squat on the sidewalk and eat dinner. It costs less than $2.00, including the beer. Squid and Octopus are snack foods in Dalian, cooked on the street and eaten on a stick. From one of the guide books: “If you do not like eating seafood, you can get roasted food on the street. In the square in front of the train station, there is a lot of roasting, the taste is good. There is roast squid, a characteristic Dalian treat cooked on an iron grille. But most famous in the whole country, the barbecues usually open at midnight, a good place for a party.” Dalian’s pride is the restaurant seafood. The City has a reputation throughout SE Asia as a food paradise. “Oh, you’re living in Dalian – beautiful city, are you gaining weight?” The Bohai Bay to the West and Yellow sea to the East surround Dalian on 3 sides and the aquatic activity has apparently not been affected by the nuclear submarine facility off shore. Chinese menus are notoriously long, but in Dalian, with the seafood choices, you often get a menu selection – kind of a menu menu. Many restaurants don’t even bother giving out menus since you can select your dinner as part of the evening’s entertainment. A typical dinner might last 3 hours. You are seated quickly, then have drinks and snacks. Then the host comes by and invites you to select dinner. In the larger restaurants that means a wall full of display meat and vegetable dishes, uncooked, and an aquarium worth of live fish, eel, shellfish, frog, and then the non-vertebrae – sea worms and sea cucumbers which I will get to in a minute. You pick your pet, … er, I mean, dinner, then go back for more snacks. That’s usually when they serve you the first volley of slime covered whatever. For me, it wasn’t the airport or the language or the people or the buildings, it was this dining moment that shouted out “YOU’RE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY!” Of the seafood array, Dalian has elevated 8 categories of sea creatures to honor status, called “The eight treasures of the sea” or “The eighth sea estimate highly” or “eight value …”
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Photos from this trip:
1. “Another sea delicacy”
2. “Bicycle Dessert”
3. “Bicycle Grille”
4. “Budweiser Fake”
5. “Chinese Beer”
6. “Collon Snack”
7. “Crawdads”
8. “Dalian Street Grille”
9. “Fried Octopus”
10. “KFC”
11. “Reeb”
12. “Sea Cucmber Advertisement”
13. “Sea Cucmber Display in Dalian museum”
14. “Sea Cucmber packed in gift box”
15. “Sea Cucumber Advertising photo.”
16. “Sea Cucumber detail”
17. “Sea Cucumber in giaft box 2″
18. “Sea Cucumber restaurant presentation”
19. “Sea Cucumber Store in Dalian”
20. “Sea worms.”
21. “Tea Bags”
22. “Typical alley cookout.”
23. “Typical Fruit Stand”

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