Qingdao — Places to eat
Red roofs, a blue bay, and beer by the bag.
- Chuange Fish Dumplings (Minjiang 2nd Road) — Squid-ink, mackerel and croaker dumplings: Qingdao's benchmark
- Minguo Seafood Dumpling House (Zhanqiao) — Cheap seafood-dumpling platters right by Zhanqiao Pier
- Qianhaiyan Qingdao Cuisine (May Fourth Square AEON) — Clam dough-drop soup and old-Qingdao home cooking
- Zhenyu Seafood New Qingdao Cuisine (Maidao) — Polished seafood in a villa, with an English menu
- Chunhelou — Old Zhongshan Road classic for crispy whole chicken
- Pichaiyuan Food Alley — Old courtyard lane for potstickers and squid skewers
- Wangjie BBQ (Zhongshan Road) — Qingdao's best-known skewer name; big squid skewers
- Yingkou Road Market & Erjie Beer House — Buy shellfish at the market, have the beer house cook it
- Taidong Pedestrian Street Night Market — Skewers, scallops and bagged beer under giant murals
- JINNS Restaurant (Jining Road) — Roast-duck pizza in an old house with wooden floors
- Dengzhou Road Beer Street — Fresh unfiltered Tsingtao right outside the brewery
- Vanilla Cafe (Yinhai) — Matcha mille-feuille on a terrace right on the sea
- Giraffe Coffee (Daxue Road) — Old café with a book loft by the red-wall corner
- 77 Coffee (Zhejiang Road) — Cathedral-side café with a golden retriever named Latte
- Vanilla Specialty Coffee (Badaguan) — Napoleon cake and sunset from a beachfront rooftop
- Tsingtao Beer Museum 1903 Bakery — Draft-beer ice cream and beer-fermented bread