Dalian Sea Cucumber

Dalian Sea Cucumber

　　Sea cucumber, a type of marine delicacy. Dalian is one of China’s primary production areas for sea cucumbers. Renowned for its extremely high nutritional value, it is exclusively served to distinguished domestic and international guests. It is mainly found in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea regions. As a precious seafood, the sea cucumber is listed as one of the “Eight Treasures.”

　　According to *Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica*, “The sea cucumbers produced in Liaodong are blackish-brown in color, with tender flesh and many spines. They are called Liaodong sea cucumbers or simply sea cucumbers, and are of excellent quality. Their medicinal properties are sweet and warm, non-toxic, and they are known to nourish kidney yin, generate blood circulation, and treat dysentery and ulcers.” Due to their warming and tonic medicinal properties, which rival those of ginseng, they are named “sea ginseng,” or sea cucumber.