"Sea cauliflower, white flowers, little dolls who love to bathe." The clear water is neither muddy nor dirty, and the lotus pond is full of sea vegetables..."
Produced in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, sea cauliflower is endemic to mainland China and grows mainly in lakes, ponds, ditches and paddy fields.
Sea cauliflower can be regarded as a kind of "rich" dish, which has extremely high requirements for the growth environment, and requires a clear, clean water body, and the deepest can grow in 4 meters of deep water. Sea cauliflower is a beautiful embellishment in the lake, the clear water of the lake, often visible dotted with yellow and white sea cauliflower, breeze blowing, bringing people a fresh and refreshing visual enjoyment.
In recent years, due to the large amount of water pollution, sea cauliflower has become more and more rare, it has become a gradually endangered species, and has been listed as a national key level 3 protected wild plant. Therefore, sea cauliflower is not only known as the "touchstone" for purifying water quality, but also called "environmental protection dish" by the environmental protection department.
There is also a legend about sea cauliflower. Legend has it that a long time ago, on the shore of Dianchi Lake in Kunming, Yunnan, there was a pair of young men and women who loved each other, fishing for men and weaving nets for women, and their lives were very happy. One day, in order to express his love for the girl, the young man drove a boat into the sea to pick sea cauliflower for her, and the result was never returned. The girl missed the young man, crying day and night, the tears flowed "five hundred miles", and finally the tears died, the body turned into a lakeside mountain, and the long hair was scattered in the sea of grass. Since then, this mountain has been called "Sleeping Beauty Mountain", and the sea cauliflower has also become a star embellishment on the long hair of Sleeping Beauty.
In addition, in Honghe, Yunnan, there is a singing cavity named after sea vegetables, which is called "sea vegetable cavity", which is commonly known as Shiping cavity, known as the first of the four major cavities in southern Yunnan (the other three are Shayou cavity, four cavity, and five mountain cavity), which has a high status.
People who have heard authentic sea cuisine sigh, "There is no language in the world that can describe the beauty of sea cuisine!" "Some people also describe that the sea vegetable cavity is really like the sea vegetable floating in the water, everything is out of nature, and the beauty is breathtaking."
There are many home-cooked dishes with seafood as the main ingredient, such as "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" and "Dragon Robe Plus Body". "Dragon and phoenix Chengxiang" is in the pork bone boiling soup, first put into the broad beans and rice boiled, and then loaded into the washed uncut sea vegetable vine stem, its taste is fresh and sweet, after eating can be blindly nourished liver, cough and phlegm, is a soup dish often eaten by middle-aged and elderly people. "Dragon robe plus body" is fried with fresh sea vegetables with diced ham to be half cooked, add starch and ingredients, simmer with sour vinegar for a while and then come out of the pot, its taste is sour and delicious, and it has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on cardiovascular disease and frequent urination.