Prawns harvested from Yingkou’s Bohai Sea are large, tender, delicious and nutrient-rich, a precious marine delicacy popular at home and abroad with an established international reputation.

The calm Bohai Bay boasts suitable water temperatures ideal for prawn habitation and reproduction. Freshwater inflow creates silty seabeds teeming with bait, forming perfect spawning, hatching and growing grounds for prawns. Every March, as northern seawater warms, prawns that overwinter in deep waters of the southern Yellow Sea migrate north in large schools, rounding the eastern tip of Shandong’s Miaodao Archipelago to enter the Bohai Bay, scattering into shallow waters to spawn and multiply.

Bohai prawns feature a one-year life cycle, fast growth, high reproduction rates and fixed long-distance spawning migration routes. Valuable both as food and herbal medicine, a local saying goes: "One bite of prawn beats half a basket of ordinary fish." Packed with high-quality protein, prawns can be crafted into exquisite Western-style seafood dishes such as salt-roasted and deep-fried prawns — golden, crispy outside and tender inside, hailed as a classic "Chinese Western fusion dish". Countless traditional Chinese preparations including steamed, smoked, soft-fried, pan-fried, egg-fried, dry-braised and red-braised prawns are equally mouth-watering and world-famous