A friend in Suzhou came to see me on business, and I did my best to invite him to eat seafood.
At the night stall by the sea, he drank too much wine and sang in front of me, "Otter fox (dialect: Taihu Lake) beautiful otter fox beauty, beauty is beautiful in otter fox water, there are white sails on the water, there are red diamonds under the water, ah waterside reeds, underwater fish and shrimp fat." I picked up two chopsticks with my bare hands, tapped the wine glass, and read out our local folk song "The Name of the Fish in the Moon Festival," "The First Moon Snow Plum (Note: Plum Boy Fish), February Peach Blossom Mullet, Three Pomfrets and Four Fish, Five Hu Six Bombs (Note: Hu Fish, Mudskipper), August White Crab Board, September Yellow Fish And Grate, October Field Crab Sipping Old Wine, November Lake Crucian Carp, December With Fish Boiling Vegetable Head to Eat Endlessly." ”
The meaning is very clear, your "otter fox" is beautiful, nothing more than the red Lingya Lake fish lake shrimp, we are here, there are snow plums, peach blossom mullet, yellow fish flowers, mouth fu is much stronger than you.
Jiangnan's river fresh, river fresh, lake fresh and seafood are all worth praising. But I think the most praiseworthy thing is seafood.
For a delicious person, the blessing of life is largely reflected in the mouth blessing, the so-called mouth blessing, that is, the happiness index on the taste buds.
The happiness index on the taste buds of Jiangnan people, that is quite high.
Jiangnan Zhucheng, rich in seafood places, such as Ningbo, Zhoushan, Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places, are known for producing seafood, seafood is the main cuisine of these places. Locals can generally call the names of twenty or thirty kinds of seafood, and those foodies with large brains can call out hundreds of seafood names as soon as they open their mouths. It is not surprising that Zhejiang has a coastline of thousands of miles, and there are more than 500 kinds of fish and shellfish aquatic products. When it comes to seafood, it's only natural that people in seaside cities breed smug emotions. There is a way to judge whether a Hangzhou person is a big family, to see how many sauce chicken sauce ducks hang on the balcony during the New Year, to judge whether a Taizhou person is a big family, then pull open the freezer layer of his refrigerator to see how many shrimp soldiers and crabs are stuffed inside. Similarly, to judge whether a person is old and confused, to see if he can call out more than ten kinds of shell names, whether he can distinguish between the seven brothers of yellow fish, if so, to prove that the brain is still fresh.
There are many seafood in Jiangnan and many ways to eat it. There is a cooked food method, there is a raw food method - lobster, elephant trunk mussel, tuna is suitable for raw food; there is a pickling method, pickled into yellow fish mackerel, melon tube, plum catfish, white catfish, dragon head catfish, shark fish, eel, mullet, dried cuttlefish, dried bullets, dried mussels, dried shrimp, all kinds of small miscellaneous fish will be dried into dried fish; there are bad drunken methods, there are bad fish, bad fish, drunken snails, drunken crabs, fish raw, blood cockles, etc. - seaside people in April and May to add red and white yeast to pickle, sealed tank after three volts to eat, There are also dehydrated fish and other bad pickling, called bad fish; there are also paste-making sauce, such as shrimp paste, crab sauce, spicy snail sauce and so on.
Eat seafood triple realm:
Delicious, fat, sweet
Regarding the seafood in these places, diners in the north and south of the world have made comments, which can be summed up in one sentence: the shape is unseen, the eating method is unheard of, the taste is the same, it is a fresh word! The prodigal son of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in the poem: "Every homesickness will salivate, how can a thing come to the eyes." "Fresh" originally refers to the freshness and delicious taste of food, but in our dialect, "fresh" has a different meaning, mainly manifested as being overwhelmed and not knowing the subtlety, but also containing a little bit of the meaning of showing and showing off. It is similar to the "fiber" in Hangzhou dialect and the "hectic" in Northeast Dialect, describing a person who is proud and proud, and uses "fresh answer", reminiscent of when seafood is just fished, fresh through the bones, dripping water.
A fresh word is not enough. In my opinion, there are three realms of eating seafood: one is delicious, the other is fat, and the third is sweet. Our people here have the highest evaluation of seafood, which is "fresh and sweet". This kind of evaluation makes some people wonder how it can be sweet? I didn't bother to argue with them, if they went to the coastal cities of Zhejiang and ate small seafood such as small yellow croaker plum boy fish that had just been caught, they would definitely be convinced of the "fresh sweetness".
Our taste buds are sensitive and delicate, looking at whether there is fresh food on the table, not looking at red meat, but looking at seasonal vegetables, and second looking at how much seafood there is on the table. Seaside people have the saying that "no fresh food is left behind", and it is also true that if there is no seafood on the table, people can eat it. In our place, there are many strange seafood - what is a bird with wings like a pointed beak "flying fish", a fish fake tiger Wei "rock head tiger", a "stone fish" of the same color as the shape of the stone, a "toad fish" full of pimples like a toad, a slender and long "nail head snail", a "bergamot" removed from the rock skin, the name seems to be the "axe fish" with the help of the axe on the beach but the flesh is extremely delicate, the "sashi shrimp" that does not let go of the appetite just listening to the name, a hard shell tail like a sword, It is said that it is earlier than the dinosaur, and it is a horsefish that can stand up with a child and let it climb... These seafood, not to mention that foreign friends have not seen, is that the locals may not be all famous. Just say that the word for horseshoe can completely overwhelm a doctor of literature. Oh, don't say it, saying too much is really suspected of showing off.
Seafood, let the seaside people breed
A sense of pride in your hometown and a sense of satisfaction with life
Many outsiders, who love these cities by the sea, start with the seafood there. It's the same thing as falling in love with a person and falling in love with a city. There was a Ningbo friend, looking for a Nanjing girl, the two settled in which city after marriage and made trouble, Ningbo friends took the Nanjing girl to eat all over Ningbo seafood, attacked the heart of the Nanjing girl.
Writer's friend Gong Zehua was also tempted by seafood and willingly settled his home in a small seaside town for a lifetime. After graduating from college, he was assigned to Taizhou with five or six classmates in his class, from the provincial capital of Hangzhou to the small city of eastern Zhejiang, the psychological gap was quite large, but the delicious teacher Gong said: "In a few days in a row, I used the basin to cook yellow fish and crab to eat, and no one wanted to leave here." The aroma of yellow croaker meat, an unforgettable aroma of teeth. At that time, the yellow fish piled up on the street was like a hill, we ate every day, we couldn't get tired of eating, yellow fish noodles, yellow fish fish meat... There are also crabs, live, the meat is as white as mutton fat, boiled to eat, fresh and sweet, everyone feels that life is like a god, and they can't enjoy such a blessing anywhere! ”
Gong Zehua has a friend in the business field, a Taiwanese, because he loves seafood in Taizhou, he simply built a factory here, he ate hundreds of local seafood and wanted to go home. Gong Zehua told him that you had tasted abalone, sea cucumber, shark fin, sea eggs, grouper, blood clams... But I haven't tasted the farmhouse seafood yet! As soon as this Taiwan businessman heard that there was also seafood from the farmhouse, his tone of voice immediately changed, and he said that he could discuss it again if he did not go back.
Northeast friends came to us, said how the food in the northeast is how, I didn't say anything, took him to our seaside food stalls, ordered a table of dishes, all strange seafood, what spicy snails, bergamot, axe fish, coffin crabs, red and green heads... The waiter served a dish at a time, and I loudly announced the name of the dish. Just listening to the name of this dish, I immediately calmed him down!
In the eyes of seaside people, those who do not eat seafood, or eat seafood allergies, are some "poor people". A leader, seafood allergy. Anecdotal rumor has it that because he could not eat seafood, he originally planned to be the mayor of Haihai City, but later changed to a mountain city as the mayor. This is obviously a folk tale, but in the eyes of seafood lovers, if seafood cannot be eaten, the pleasure of being a person is discounted, to put it more seriously, it is not the meaning of "one eye".
The contribution of seafood to seaside people is not only to satisfy the appetite of seaside people, but also to bring them a kind of worldly and market-oriented happiness, and at the same time, it will make seaside people breed pride in their hometown and satisfaction with life. And the latter is the most important. Ningbo, Taizhou and Wenzhou have all been selected as the happiest cities in China, and without these delicious seafood, the happiness of citizens will be discounted.
To discount it.