Pangolin, everyone knows its big name, today's pangolin has long been listed as a rare protected animal, not only can not eat, even caught is not allowed. Let's look to the sea, in fact, in the vast sea, there is also a kind of "pangolin in the sea", the existence of this creature, so that the crew and sailors headaches, but in the hands of Cantonese people, it is a rare delicacy.
Sea shoots, the name sounds strange. Many people have never heard of sea shoots, and coastal people may know more about them, because this creature grows in the sea, often accompanies ships, and sometimes you can find them on the reefs on the coast. These sea shoots have a more difficult name to remember, called "Yoshimura Matt Sea Shoots".
Yoshimura Mat sea shoots mainly live in the coastal areas of China and Japan. Although there is a bamboo shoot character, sea shoots belong to the shellfish and are skilled craftsmen who chisel stones and holes in shellfish. How annoying are sea shoots? When you find traces of sea shoots living on the reef on the shore, on the surface they appear to be just some small holes, but the inside of the stone has long been eaten into a "honeycomb", and with a little force, the stone will shatter.
How could a small sea shoot destroy a stone like this? In fact, although sea shoots and pangolins have the skill of "punching holes" in stones, they each have a different way. It grows with densely packed fine teeth and has a well-developed foot. When it wants to make a hole in the stone, it uses the foot as a fulcrum, constantly rotates, grinds the stone with fine teeth, and then punches a hole, and the stone is "eaten" by it.
In the coastal areas of Guangdong in China, there are also two unique kinds of sea shoots, one is Matt sea shoots, and the other is wide-shelled whole sea shoots. Among them, the meat of wide-shelled whole sea shoots is edible, in the hands of Cantonese people, they can be fried, can be boiled hot pot, the taste is absolute, so that many first-time foodies left a deep impression.
The meat of the sea shoots, hidden under a layer of rough black leather sleeve, before eating, you must peel off this layer of black leather cover, revealing the white and tender meat inside, eat the taste and shellfish similar, the taste after frying is excellent, crisp and tender, and there is a unique seafood taste, like wrapped in a pool of water, very delicious.
If you put sea shoots into the hot pot, especially the spicy and fragrant Sichuan hot pot or Chongqing hot pot, the taste is really a must. Because the sea shoots will absorb the taste of the hot pot, absorb the essence into the meat, bite it, the taste is wonderful, plus their own blend of dipping sauce, sesame sauce, garlic sesame oil, absolutely unforgettable.
Unfortunately, at present, only a small number of people in Guangdong and Shandong will eat sea shoots. In most parts of China, people have not even heard of sea shoots. If artificial breeding can be realized, I believe that the taste of sea shoots will be loved by more people.