Weihai Clear Soup

Weihai clear soup is a classic soup of the city, built on local seafood such as abalone, sea cucumber and shrimp and simmered gently in clear chicken broth; the bowl runs clear yet the flavour runs deep, embodying the principle of "clear soup, full flavour" and showing the purest taste of Jiaodong seafood.

Weihai rose with the sea, and its cooks prize freshness above all and clarity above all method, using clear-broth cooking to let the seafood speak; the soup thus became a classic of both banquet and home table, reflecting the Jiaodong coast's confident restraint with sea flavours.

Usually served as the closing soup of a banquet, it is sipped hot—diners first taste the broth to take in its freshness, then eat the seafood within, a light bowl with a long, lingering finish.

The contrast of a crystal-clear broth with deep, lasting flavour, and its purest possible rendering of seafood, are the defining traits of Weihai clear soup.