Friends who have been to Yantai know that Yantai has a very good name to eat "sea intestine fishing rice", cooked with leeks, sea intestines, rice, some will also add eggs or meat foam, etc., the taste is so beautiful that the eater is unforgettable, and they want to eat it.
Many people do not know what the sea intestine is, so the sea intestine in the sea intestine rice is not clear, many friends may also think that it is the digestive tract of some kind of marine animal, in fact, it is not, it is a marine animal similar to the earthworm, the scientific name is single ring thorn earthworm, commonly known as sea intestine, sandworm, sea earthworm, haitian melon, sea chicken, sea intestine, its length is generally between 10 and 30 cm, but its body is soft and elastic, it will stretch and contract, the longest can even change 5 times.
In the zoological classification is more special, it belongs to the insect phylum ⇒ the family of insects⇒ the order Anchovy⇒ stingrays, the shape is a long cylindrical link animal, it looks like a thick earthworm, flesh color or light yellow, people who have not seen it at first glance, feel a little uncomfortable. However, the shape of this thing is "evil" but delicious, although it is not good, it tastes good when cooked, and its nutritional value is not inferior to that of sea cucumber.
Sea intestines are distributed along the Pacific coast, which is mostly in the northwest Pacific Ocean, China's Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea is one of the main production areas, in the past week, China's Shandong Province Yantai City by the sea on the beach somehow appeared a large number of sea intestines, attracted a lot of Yantai coastal residents to go fishing, many people pick up day and night, with large barrels and plastic bags, soon can pick up a bucket, night also play flashlight fishing, and even stay up all night, because there are too many on the beach, a moment can pick up a large bucket, such a time there are few times a year. However, most people do not only eat for themselves, because now this thing is expensive, and a pound of breeding costs tens of hundreds of yuan, and the wild one is even more expensive.
Sea intestines mostly live on the shallow sea tidal flats, drilling in the sand, feeding on small bugs, fish eggs or small fish shrimp and organic residues, etc., but it is also the favorite food of seabirds, usually it hides in the mud and sand, exposing the head to the outside to filter the edible things in the water flow, seabirds will peck after seeing, but the sea intestines will drill down when they are pecked, seabirds usually only drag half of them to eat, but the remaining half of the sea intestines will resume growth, re-grow the head and other parts, after a while it will be almost the same as the original. So this thing is the same as leeks, after cutting will grow, and sea intestines as ingredients and leeks are also a perfect match, it is really very magical.
Sea intestines grow rapidly in the water-rich seas, in December 2019, the west coast of the United States sea intestines everywhere, squirming everywhere on the beach, at first glance people feel goosebumps, but Europeans and Americans basically do not eat this thing, Our foodies have heard about it after leaving the harrah, you are simply a tyrannical thing.
In the past, sea intestines were considered "poor people's food", because it was easier to get, coastal beaches can be picked up or excavated, but now the wild is no longer easy to catch, and now it has become a "rich man's food", and even for a long time, the sea intestine this ingredient was controlled by "sea lord", between 2006 and 2018, the production and sales of sea intestines along the coast of Shandong were controlled by a "sea bully" headed by Wang Lei, who is said to have threatened to say "If I am not happy, The whole of Shandong also do not want to eat a good sea sausage", at that time, the price of sea sausage was also under the control of this force, but this "sea bully" force has been dealt with, and the production and market order of Shandong sea intestine have been normalized.
This time Yantai coastal appeared a large number of sea intestines, the source is still a mystery, some people say that these sea intestines are blown by the sea breeze, this is certainly not right, this thing will not fly, it is speculated that it should be under the wind under the sea tide, sea intestines from other places to be brought here, but it is also possible that the local sea intestines grew up in batches, no matter what, this time The residents of Yantai coastal area can have a mouthful, sea intestines fishing rice, sea intestine leeks and other delicacies can eat a full.
Resources:
"Qilu Evening News" November 11 article "Dense, full of land! Yantai people play the lamp all night to fish for sea sausages with sacks! How to eat? Don't worry..."