Peacock Restaurant, Qingdao

To describe this restaurant as merely elegant without also tossing in grand, luxurious, majestic, opulent and sumptuous would be a vast understatement. Appropriately sited inside the five-star Grand Regency Hotel, it grades as one of Qindao's best dining choices when the evening is labeled as "special." Cantonese cuisine dominates the menu, equating into a bounty of seafood options ranging from crabs and scallops to shark's fin and sea bass. Reservations are strongly encouraged.