Source: The Great Wall Network
The opening ceremony of the first China Beidaihe Scallop Food Culture Festival. Photo by Hu Hongfei
The First China Beidaihe Scallop Food Culture Festival kicked off in the Shell Kingdom Museum in Beidaihe New District from October1 to 7, presenting various activities and performances. More than 100 famous brands of food and seafood take part in the exhibition, offering tourists a feast.
The event was hosted by the Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Commerce, the Bureau of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Film and Television, the Ocean and Fishery Bureau, the Management Committee of Beidaihe New District, and undertaken by Qinhuangdao Science Popularization Association, Qinhuangdao Tourism Association, Qinhuangdao Catering Association, Qinhuangdao Wanbaoluo Tourism Development Co., Ltd., Qinhuangdao Coast Venice Hotel Co., Ltd., and the Shell Kingdom Museum, highlighting Qinhuangdao’s rich tourist and cultural resources, featuring scallop and gourmet, to promote the raw material supply and catering service, the consumption of all-for-one tourism, and the upgrade of the whole industry chain, through displaying shell culture, and scallop gourmet culture.
Internet influencers recommend delicious scallops. Photo by Hu Hongfei
During this festival, more than 50 well-known seafood catering companies in Qinhuangdao will present tourists with various popular seafood, with preferential prices and high quality. Activities will be launched, such as internet influencer food show, local Qinhuangdao food culture appraise, forum of nutritional value of the mollusk and healthy food, scallop culture appraise, scallop cultural promotion, food art tour, and intangible cultural heritage exhibition, presenting visitors with a dual experience of taste and vision.
“Food culture is the most shining pearl in traditional Chinese culture, and a bridge to the world. ” Jiang Zhiguo, chairman of Qinhuangdao Wanbaoluo Tourism Development Co., Ltd., said that the purpose of the scallop food culture festival is to explore local specialties, create tourism gourmet brands, improve the structure of tourism products, extend the main chain of the tourism industry, and actively promote the healthy development of the marine aquaculture industry. At the same time, the festival will also improve consumption hot issues and demands, and form a new economic growth in the sector.
The Bohai Bay is located in the warm temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, with a mild climate and shallow and slow water flow. The water body is rich in nutrients owe to the coastal runoff, and suitable for a variety of shellfish. The coastal water quality in Beidaihe New District is clear, in which more than ten kinds of shellfish live. With the development of scallop breeding, the district has become a key scallop breeding zone in China for its good water and seabed quality, and the annual output of the scallops can reach about 40% of the total annual output of scallops in China.
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