The Xinghai area has a number of decent quality restaurants offering a wide variety of regional Chinese cooking styles look for ones that have their catch fresh on ice. Restaurants are easy to find throughout the district, with clusters of cheap restaurants around the universities and more upscale restaurants around Xi'an Lu. Korean restaurants tend to be found near the main universities while there's a few Japanese restaurants around Xi'an Lu. While most of these restaurants are decent, few are of high enough quality to warrant a special trip. About the only restaurants worth going out of the way for are found around Xinghai Square.
Xinghai Square restaurants
– encircling xinghai square are restaurants featuring a range of cuisines, mainly seafood as the water is just a few meters away but also chinese, japanese, korean, and western styles. prices vary but expect to pay at least ¥150 each.