Dalian Restaurants

Ma La Tang is a sort of local snack. There're many small Ma La Tang restaurant in Dalian. You can choose many kinds of meat, vegetable, mushroom. And then the shopman mix them together with some soup. It tastes very delicious.

This is a kind of spcial sock in China. Normally it is made by hawkthorns. Outside the Hawkthorns is sugar candy. When you eat, you can feel sour and sweet at the same time. Sounds spcial, isn't it?
Now there are many fruits instead of Hawkthorns, like strawberry, banana, grape,yam( this is my favourite), Chinese goosebeery... many kinds of if u can image ^o^

This chain restaurant seems to be quite popular. I went to the 298th branch in Dalian. There are lotsa waiter and waitresses to serve you. You can choose between steamboat (huo guo) or ala carte (chao chai).

Favorite Dish: We tried the "qing tang" steamboat which is very nice. You can order vegetables, meat, seafood for the steamboat. And there are a few types of broth to choose from. The "yang rou" (lamb) is superb! The lamb are sliced thinly and cooked in the tasty boiling water in front of you, and the lamb are said to be imported from "nei meng" (Inner Mongolia). yummy... The thinly sliced lamb is juicy, tender and simply delicious.

Perhaps we will go there again to try the " ri ben fei niu rou" (Japanese fatty beef) - sounds and looks like Kobe beef to me.

For the soup, they also have "ma la tang" (super spicy soup). I dare not try it just in case too spicy for my tongue!

I like steamboat as I can cook whatever I want myself. Just add whatever you like into the boiling broth and then fishing it out from the broth, if you can find it. ;-)

- there are lots of good ones but this was our favorite
- small neighbourhood restaurant
- friendly staff
- minimal decor, don't be fooled by this
- frequented by ESL teachers
- English menu, a little English spoken

Favorite Dish: sweet and sour pork - (goo bah row)
spicy chicken with peanuts
broccoli with garlic
best chow mien in Dalian
lots of great dishes

These hotel restaurants and bars offer great food and international music entertainment.

Swiss Hotel - great Thanksgiving and Christmas buffets. Good hamburgers and desserts

Ramada - again great buffets

Favorite Dish: Buffets offering real turkey dinners for the holidays

After giving your stomach a chance to adjust to the new environment, try this very popular vendors - just make sure the food is cooked in front of you.

Some are there all day but most come out during the evening.

You will find them most commonly outside the big stores like Carrefour, Walmart and any other venue where something is happening that day

Favorite Dish: - BBQ kebobs - almost always lamb or squid, they sprinkle cumin and cayenne on them.
Some places you eat them there as they serve them on metal skewers that they want back, others use wooden skewers.
- Candies fruit on a stick - yum
- Crepe pancake - with an egg, green onions and optional hot dog cooked and then rolled up into a little bundle - not bad
- Hard to find, but I got addicted - (jaw gee leo)
- a small bag of deep fried, thin strips of chicken sprinkled with cumin and cayenne. There is a stall just outside the Beijing Street Market one block up from Huang He Lu
- Avoid the corn on the cob, after sitting, it becomes very starchy tasting

Nice decor, upscale
One price (about 65 RMB), all you can eat in 4 hours
Salad bar, buffet bar of veggies, rice, etc and then the waiters come around with long skewers of beef (all kinds of different cuts), chicken and you choose what you want to try
Spanish and English spoken, menu not needed

Favorite Dish: all wonderful

Japanese decor
pit tables or regular
Japanese menu with pictures, some English spoken, manager/owner is (Canadian)

Favorite Dish: chicken kabobs
curry dishes
tempura dishes
I personally don't eat sushi but hear it is done well