Muping Barbecue Skewers 牟平烧烤
Muping Barbecue Skewers is featured among the local specialties of Shandong.
Muping Barbecue Skewers (牟平烧烤) are the grilled skewers of Muping (牟平), a district of Yantai (烟台) in Shandong. The Muping district government says the style is well known across Yantai and that on weekends many people travel from other parts of the city to Muping just to eat it.
What goes on the grill
Alongside the usual meat, vegetables, fish and seafood, Muping grills take a lot of offal: pig kidney, pig heart, chicken gizzard and xinguan (心管). In recent years menus have taken in pig palate, yaojin (腰筋) and huachang (花肠) as well. CCTV's food series on city signature dishes singles out grilled tuisuizi (腿穗子) as the Muping speciality.
For the evening, the Yantai Culture and Tourism Bureau lists sea worm (海肠), oysters, mabu fish (马步鱼), squid and scallops going straight onto the grill, eaten for the unadorned original taste of the sea.
Flavour
CCTV describes Muping barbecue as aiming for the original flavour of the ingredients, and the Yantai bureau calls the seafood version the unadorned original taste of the sea.
How it is eaten
The district government says the real old taste of Muping barbecue is found in plain-looking small shops down the lanes and at night-market stalls. Most of these small places are run by a couple or a family and grill a limited amount each day, closing rather than taking on too many customers. Each has its own known dish: regulars know which shop is best for grilled cartilage, which for ribs and which for chicken feet. Locals meet friends after work for skewers and drinks in every season.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-24. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.