About Wanbao Seafood Restaurant
Wanbao Seafood Restaurant is reputed as 'king of the numerous seafood restaurants in Dalian' — the city's most-cited single fine-dining seafood destination, with extravagant Chinese fine-dining decoration, the city's deepest seafood selection, and the formal banquet-room service that defines Dalian high-end dining. The restaurant has built its reputation among Dalian-resident food press as the reference room for serious Bohai Bay seafood cooked with formal Cantonese-and-Dongbei technique.
The signature dishes are the Bohai Bay seafood signatures. Steamed Live Bohai Crab (¥280 per crab) — selected by the diner from the lobby tank, cleaned and steamed at the kitchen with ginger-and-scallion garnish, the city's most-recognisable single seafood preparation. Braised Sea Cucumber with Scallion (¥320) — Dalian's signature dish, the local sea cucumber slow-braised with scallion oil, soy sauce, and Shaoxing wine. Steamed Bohai Bay Flounder ($¥240) — selected from the live tank, steamed with ginger, scallion, and a small splash of premium soy. Baked Prawns ($¥180) — the local large prawns, baked in a small clay pot with garlic and chili.
Beyond the live-tank format, the kitchen runs a wider Dongbei (northeast Chinese) seafood and standard Cantonese menu — sea-urchin sashimi, abalone-with-chicken-jus, double-boiled fish-maw soup, and Northeast Chinese-style dumplings. A multi-course tasting meal for four with three live-tank seafood selections, two side dishes, and rice runs ¥1,800-2,800 total.
The room is built in formal Chinese fine-dining style — chandelier lighting, framed Chinese calligraphy on the walls, traditional round-table seating, and ten private banquet rooms (largest seats sixteen) used heavily for business and government entertaining. Capacity is two hundred across the main hall plus the private rooms. Reservations are taken through the hotel concierge for weekend evenings; the private rooms book two weeks ahead.
Best Occasion Fit
For impressing senior international clients in northeast China, Wanbao is Dalian's clearest answer — the live-tank seafood selection format, the formal Chinese banquet-room setting, and the multi-decade reputation flatter the guest in a culturally legible way. For Birthdays — particularly milestone anniversary dinners — the multi-course tasting and the private-room format are properly celebratory. Proposals fit the back private-room booking format.
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