Dalian Yikeyijia Hotel

Be brave, try local restaurants

by ctietbohl

Please go out of the hotel to try local restaurants. We found only one restaurant "The Big Apple", that had anyone who could speak English. But we found all restaurants had 10 to 20 meals on individual plates. uncooked. You could point to which plate you wanted, my wife always chose shrimp, and they would prepare it for you. I never knew how it was going to be prepared, whether broiled or fried or baked, but it was almost always delicious. I didn't like sea cucumber salad. If your shrimp comes out with the shell still on and then breaded, we saw people either eating the shrimp, shell and all, or, seperating the shell from the shrimp in their mouth and spitting out the shell. My wife pealed hers, and I ate the whole thing. Pull the tail off first, though. The Chinese people laughed at my wife peeling her shrimp. You can eat for one fourth the cost or less than if you ate all your meals in your hotel.

Laodong Park

by ahoerner

Located south from the downtown, this nice park has some thematic squares, Chinese gardens and a small amusement park.

Recommended is the ride in the big ferris-wheel as well as a ride with the cable-car up to the TV tower and then back with the slide-car (tobogan).

Dalian---Economic and Technological Zone

by seagoingJLW

"Industry in Partnership with Other Nations"

We came to Dalian by ship. Above you see what we saw as we approached Dalian.

Dalian is located at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula. The Yellow Sea is to the east and the Bohai Sea is to the west. It has 6 urban districts, 3 satellite cities and 1 rural county under its jurisdiction. It covers an area 0f 12,573 sq km. The total population is 5.24 million with 2.72 million in the urban area.

It has a mild climate with the average temperature being 10°C.

The well known Dalian Harbor maintains foreign trade with more than 140 foreign countries and regions.

Dalian is one of the major industrial bases in China. It is a good environment for foreign investment since the establishment of the Dalian Economi and Technological Zone in 1984.

Dalian is surrounded by mountains and water. There is some beautiful scenery which includes 5 major scenic areas: the Southern Coastal Beach, Lushunkou, Jinshitan Beach, Bingyu Valley and Haiwang Islands.