🍽️ Weihai Sea Worm Rice

Sea worm with chives over rice.

Weihai Sea-Worm Rice is a seafood staple from the Jiaodong coast of Weihai, Shandong. The sea worm (penis fish) is a long, cylindrical marine soft creature with a crisp, tender bite, commonly stir-fried with Chinese chives and then poured, sauce and all, over steamed rice. Fresh sea worms are cleaned, cut into segments, quickly stir-fried over high heat with chives, lightly thickened and spooned onto hot rice. The worm is crisp and springy, the chives add a pungent aroma, and the sauce is briny and mellow, soaking into every grain. It is a hearty rice-served dish at Jiaodong fishing homes and seafood restaurants, prized for fresh worms and fierce heat, best eaten hot with the sauce mixed into the rice to capture Weihai's ocean-fresh taste.