Fish & seafood 河鲜海鲜

River fish, shellfish and coastal seafood dishes; names and preparation styles vary locally.

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Inner Mongolia

Yellow River Fish 黄河鱼

Yellow River Fish (黄河鱼) in Wuhai (乌海), Inner Mongolia, means fish from the Yellow River (黄河) cooked in the city's fish restaurants and homes, above all stewed whole.

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Liaoning

Dalian Sea Cucumber 大连海参

Dalian Sea Cucumber (大连海参) is the spiny sea cucumber (刺参) raised and harvested in the waters off Dalian (大连), at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula (辽东半岛) on the shores of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.

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Liaoning

Stir-Fried Spoon Worms 炒海肠

Stir-Fried Spoon Worms (炒海肠) is a seafood dish made from the spoon worm Urechis unicinctus, a marine worm known in Chinese as haichang (海肠, 'sea intestine').

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Liaoning

Donggang Swimming Crab 东港飞蟹

Donggang Swimming Crab (东港飞蟹) is the swimming crab, Portunus trituberculatus, from Dandong (丹东), Liaoning, sold under the Donggang (东港) name.

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