My Favorite Place - Dalian

Hanxiao Tai

Slimp, Stephen

Oct, 2013

My favorite place

I believe that many people have favorite places, and I also have my favorite place. My favorite place is my hometown Dalian. It is located in the south of Liaodong peninsula which is in the east of Huanghai Sea and west of Bohai Sea. It is a unique geographical location makes Dalian attractive for tourists and a large number of tourists come to Dalian for fun every year. Dalian is a beautiful city, and I think that three factors make Dalian so desirable: if has many scenic spots and special holidays; if has a good cuisine; and if it is near the sea.

I am a travelholic, and I have been many places around China, from Harbin to Kunming from Beijing to Tibet. But Dalian is the only city that I will never be tired of. Many scenic spots and special holidays make Dalian so attractive and unique. One landmark of Dalian is Xinghai square; Xinghai square is the largest square in Asia that the municipal government built by reclaiming land from sea, and forms a total area of 1.76 million hectares larger than Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It has held the Beer festival annually in August. The beer festival in Dalian is unbelievable, and you can find all kinds of beer you want such as Eisbock, Dark beer, Qingdao beer and Blue Bulb. In addition; "Laohutan" is also something famous you should never miss when you visit there. "Laohutan" is a place name in the northeast of Dalian; "Laohutan"Polar museum is the best and the largest aquarium in China. You can find any marine animal such as a white whale, penguin, shark, flying fish and so forth. My parents always took me to watch the wonderful animal shows when I was a little child, my favorite animal show is performance of seals that they are very clever and flexible animals because they could catch every cycle trainers threw at them. We have spent a fantastic time together in aquarium.

Dalian's cuisine is also a reason that attracts me. I was born and raised in Dalian, and I absolutely like Dalian's cuisine, especially seafood which is one of the specialties of the cuisine in there. As most Chinese know, Dalian seafood ranks the first in the northeast China. There are about 250000 tons of annual production of various kinds of seafood, such as hair tail, cuttlefish, cobbler fish and so forth. The high output of seafood and low price allow Dalian families to consume seafood every day. Many people in Dalian are the masters of seafood cuisine. My parents are also good at cooking seafood, so I usually can eat various, fresh and tasty seafood. If you visit Dalian, you will be surprised