The New Year is approaching, Chinese the New Year pays attention to good intentions, and fish (shrimp/crab) is an indispensable dish on the table Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese. From ancient times to the present, from the south to the north, the fish firmly occupy the "absolute C position" in the Tuan Nian dinner! Because fish is homophonous with "Yu", it also represents people's yearning for a better life of "more than enough food and clothing".
This Chinese New Year's Eve rice menu recommended by aquatic workers is classic, and the reunion is festive and delicious! Put it away and don't thank you!
White-seared prawns
Meaning: (Red Fire)
As a regular customer on Chinese New Year's Eve meals, white-burned prawns have a high popularity, simple methods, original taste, tender and refreshing, rich in nutrition, more importantly, young and old, the elderly and children love to eat!
White-seared prawns generally use Penaeus vannamei, Penaeus monodon or Nicholas nigricans. Data show that the annual output of Chinese white shrimp in South America has long reached the level of one million tons, but even so, we still have to import hundreds of thousands of tons of shrimp from overseas every year to meet daily consumption, which shows the love of the Chinese people for this shrimp. With the development of breeding desalination technology and cold chain logistics technology, I believe that in the near future, more friends in inland cities can also eat fresh white shrimp.
Steamed grouper
Meaning: More than every year
Steamed fish is an indispensable dish in many families' Chinese New Year's Eve meals, which can be valuable species such as grouper, mandarin fish, and sea bass, or traditional four large fish such as grass carp and bream. As a typical representative of "raw seafood", grouper is generally preferred by consumers to live grouper as the first choice for high-grade seafood. Data show that in 2018, China's farmed grouper production reached 100,000 tons.
Oyster sauce stew pig hand
Moral: Good things are in hand
Oyster sauce, also known as "dried oysters", is a kind of seafood that belongs to the dried products of oysters. Oyster sauce is similar to "good thing" in Cantonese, and the Cantonese pronunciation of "oyster pig hand" is also similar to "good thing is hand", so it has also become a "regular customer" on the Chinese New Year's Eve table of the people of Guangdong. The Spring Festival is a good time to eat oysters, and the meat is fat and delicious. Guangdong Zhanjiang, Zhuhai Hengqin, Taishan, Chaoshan and Guangxi Beibu Bay coastal and Shandong Rushan and other places are China's oyster quality production areas.
Braised Wuchang fish
Chairman Mao once said, "Only when you drink Changsha water can you eat Wuchang fish." Let a traditional hubei dish - Wuchang fish famous at home and abroad. Wuchang fish scientific name Tuantou bream, commonly known as bream, Wuchang fish as a unique excellent freshwater fish in China, with fast growth, easy to raise and hunt, high meat content, high nutritional value and delicious taste and other advantages, deeply loved by consumers and farmers.
Pickled fish
Wax fish is a traditional dish in the Two Lakes region, which is generally made before the spring and uses freshwater fish such as grass carp, blue carp, and silver carp. It has a traditional aquatic processed product that is solid, salty and light, easy to preserve, and is loved by people in the Two Lakes region.
Jingzhou fish cake
The harmonic sound "Yu Gao" means "every year there is more than enough, step by step"
Jingzhou has been rich in fish since ancient times, and people use fish and fatty meat to make cakes, and then use pork, yam and other meatballs. Meatballs on the bottom, fish cake on top, and finally with belly slices, waist slices cooking fried cap, multi-dish bowl, commonly known as flower cake, chowder balls, is the first dish on the red and white wedding feast in Jingzhou and even Hubei region.
Mince the pepper fish head
Meaning: Good luck is the head
Chopped pepper fish head is a traditional dish in Hunan Province, the main ingredient is fathead fish, that is, bighead carp, commonly known as silver carp, bighead fish. It is one of the "four big fishes" in China's freshwater aquaculture industry and an important economic fish in China. The head of the minced pepper fish is contrasted with the "fresh taste" of the fish head and the "spicy" of the chopped pepper. The fiery minced peppers, covered with white and tender fish head meat, are steaming hot and fragrant. The fresh flavor is retained in the flesh, and the chopped pepper penetrates into the fish just right, and the entrance is delicate and crystalline, with a gentle and elegant spicy taste.
Qintong fish round
Meaning: reunion
Qintong fish cake, a famous traditional snack in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, is based on white fish, followed by blue fish. The production of fish cakes adheres to the essence of the century-old aquatic products processing industry, with the characteristics of "soft, tender, tough, smooth and fresh", and rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of vitamins, which can be called the famous products of Qintong.
Soft-pocketed long fish (eel)
Meaning: long, long, healthy and long life
Soft-pocketed long fish, also known as "soft-pocketed eel", is a very prestigious dish in Huaiyang cuisine, which is tender and delicious.
Among them, the main ingredient is yellow eel, which is a relatively important freshwater aquaculture fish in China, with a history of artificial breeding for more than 20 years, and the breeding area is mainly distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places. Yellow eel has high nutritional value, and is known for its effect of tonifying the blood and curing weakness.
Soup the yellow croaker
Meaning: full of gold and jade
Yellow croaker was once the top dish in the Manchu and Han Chinese banquets of the Qing Dynasty. Its rarity lies in the fact that it is sac in the abdomen but does not leak around, so this technique of removing bones from the intestines but not breaking the abdomen has become the foundation of Liwan. The reason why this dish is gradually lost, in addition to the expensive materials and cumbersome workmanship, there is also an important reason, that is, the wild yellow croaker has been difficult to find, and even some people have spent thousands of dollars for it. Fortunately, with the improvement of breeding technology, more and more yellow croakers with high quality and good meat taste have come to the table and come to the consumer.
Fried rice cake with hairy crab
Meaning: High and high
Fried rice cake with hairy crab is a delicious Shanghai famous dish, and the meat of hairy crab is more tender and sweet than that of various types of sea crabs. The flexible rice cake slices fully absorb the fresh aroma and flavored aroma of crab meat, which is no less than the sweet hairy crab.
Hairy crab, also known as river crab, crab crab, hairy crab, scientific name Chinese river crab, is the most abundant freshwater crab among Chinese crabs. China's crab farming industry has changed from "big crab farming" that pursues production to raising big crabs and raising "ecological crabs" centered on quality and efficiency.
Red cream stewed crab
Meaning: Step by step
Red cream roasted crab is a dish with pike crab and rice wine as the main ingredients, and is also one of the most representative Ningbo dishes. This dish brings the vivid color and freshness of crab to the extreme, and a pinch of crab paste is sandwiched and sent to the mouth, and the salty and fresh taste is endlessly evocative.
West Lake vinegar fish
Moral: Sweet does not forget sour
West Lake vinegar fish, also known as "Uncle Chuanzhen" and "Song Sister-in-law Fish", is a traditional flavor dish in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The main vinegar fish in The West Lake is cooked with grass carp and other ingredients, the color is bright red, the meat is tender, sweet and sour, the taste is soft and tender, with a crab flavor.
Stinky mandarin fish
Meaning: Wealth is more than enough
Stinky mandarin fish, also known as "stinky guiyu", is a traditional dish in Anhui Province and one of the representatives of Huizhou cuisine. When you first see it, it seems to stink and your face is ugly, but when you take a bite, you will be surprised to find that it tastes so delicious. Mandarin meat is tender, delicious, less thorny and more meat, from ancient times to the present is loved by the people, is one of the best freshwater economic fish.
Braised turtle
Meaning: health and longevity
Braised turtle is a traditional dish belonging to the Fujian cuisine family. This dish is a first-class medicinal diet, this dish is fragrant and mellow, rich in nutrition, can replenish the deficiency of the body, qi and blood double supplement, nourish yin conditioning, clear heat and fire.
Buddha jumped off the wall
Meaning: Reunion and happiness
Buddha Jumping Wall, also known as Fu Shou Quan, is a special dish of Fujian cuisine in Fujian Province. Usually, abalone, sea cucumber, fish lip, apricot abalone mushroom, hoof tendon, flower mushroom, cuttlefish, Yaozhu, quail eggs, etc. are gathered together, added to the broth and Fujian old wine, simmered over low heat. The taste is soft and tender, rich and fragrant, and meaty but not greasy, and the taste is flavorful.
Fujian is one of the main production areas of abalone, sea cucumber, shellfish, fish and shrimp, rich in seafood, abalone, eel, seaweed, South American white shrimp, the output value of the whole industry chain exceeded 10 billion yuan, can be called the four kings of Fujian seafood industry. Cooking Buddha jumping off the wall is only local materials.
Squirrel mandarin fish
Meaning: "Rich and rich"
Squirrel mandarin fish, also known as squirrel cinnamon fish, is a representative work of Su Bang cuisine with both color and aroma, according to legend, the Qianlong Emperor went down to Jiangnan, micro-served to Suzhou Songhelou Restaurant for meals, see its shape like a mouse, crisp on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour, the Qianlong Emperor was very satisfied after eating, and later became famous in Suzhou.
Lees fish
Sake lees fish is a traditional local dish in Jiangxi, and about half a kilogram of grass carp (blue fish) is pickled and dried until it is half dry, and put into the brewed rice wine jar and sealed. In more than ten days, it can be removed, steamed or boiled, and boiled with the lees. The key is that the wine seeps into the fish, which is date red, and its color has an intoxicating beauty, and then the aroma of wine wafts in.
Yellow River big carp
Meaning: Carp Leaping Dragon Gate
Yellow River carp is a traditional dish in Henan Province and belongs to the Yu cuisine family. It is usually made of more than 1 kilogram of carp in the Yellow River as the main ingredient, steamed with shiitake mushroom shreds, winter shoot shreds, green onions, ginger, garlic, eggs and other accessories. Yellow River carp is one of the four famous fish in China, rich in protein, fat, vitamins and other nutrients, food diuretic swelling, fetal milk, heat and detoxification, cough and other effects.
Golden Retriever Lionfish
Meaning: Flowers blossom and become rich
Golden retriever lionfish is a traditional dish in Hebei and belongs to the Ji cuisine family. Golden retriever lionfish is made of carp as the main ingredient. The color is golden yellow, the fish shreds are fluffy and shaped like lions, and the sweet and sour are delicious. It began in the early republic of China and was first created by Yuan Qingfang, a famous chef at a Chinese restaurant in Shijiazhuang. Because the dish is golden in color and resembles a lion.
Grilled sea cucumber with green onion
Moral: "Smart and clever, step by step"
Grilled sea cucumber is a special dish in Jiaodong district of Shandong Province, belongs to the Lu cuisine family, the dish is imported from Shandong, with water hair sea cucumber and scallions as the main ingredients, its sea cucumber is fresh, soft and smooth, the green onion is fragrant, and there is no juice after eating. It is one of the "Eight Treasures of Ancient and Modern", with mellow aroma and rich nutrition, nourishing the lungs and kidneys.
Steamed multi-treasure fish
Meaning: fortune into treasure, wealth and blessings
Turbot is the English translation and trade name of Turbot, which belongs to the flounder family, Turbot family, Turbot genus, and is one of the most valuable low-temperature economic fish species on the northeast Atlantic coast. In China's Shandong Peninsula, Hebei and Liaodong Peninsula popularization of aquaculture, and continue to extend south to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian coasts, has developed into one of the pillar industries of marine fish farming in China.
Bad spicy crispy fish
Meaning: Good fortune is the head, and the years are safe
Spicy crispy fish is one of the traditional famous dishes in Guiyang, Guizhou, and belongs to the Qian cuisine family. This vegetable oil is bright red, fresh and delicious, slightly sour, sweet, salty, slightly spicy, and its taste is endless. Both large and small banquets and home guests often use this dish as a delicacy to entertain guests.
Sour soup fish
Meaning: Wind and rain are smooth
Sour soup fish, is a traditional dish of the Miao Dong people, the main ingredient of fish meat generally choose yellow spicy ding (yellow jaw fish), grass carp, river tuan, river catfish, etc., after becoming a dish, slightly sour, fragrant, fresh and refreshing appetizer, is one of the representative works of Guizhou "Qian" dishes.
Golden soup sauerkraut fish
Sauerkraut fish, also known as sour soup fish, is a classic dish originating in Chongqing, known for its unique seasoning and unique cooking techniques. Traditional four-big fish such as grass carp and silver carp were generally used in the past, but now with the change of people's eating habits, it is now commonly used to flounder species such as California perch, blackfish, tilapia or bass fish.
Dry pot bullfrog
Meaning: The Year of the Ox is auspicious, and the ox is soaring
Bullfrogs are imported products native to North America and are named for their loud, cow-like calls. In the 1990s, it began to be widely promoted in China. In recent years, bullfrog has become one of the important aquatic products of aquaculture in China. Its meat is tender, delicious, nutritious and has certain medicinal value.
Of the above 26 dishes and 26 good wishes, which one is the exclusive Flavor of your hometown? Which one is a must-have dish on your Chinese New Year's Eve table? Please call one of your favorite dishes at the aquatic Chinese New Year's Eve table!
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