It's the "fat season" where snail river mussels are very popular

Operators are processing river mussels

One morning, on one side of the Laoyu stall at the Omi Aquatic Market, the shells of the river mussels were piled up into a hill, and on the other side, several plastic bags were filled with freshly removed river mussel meat. "These are booked by a restaurant, a total of 100 pounds of river mussel meat, and there are 3 restaurants waiting for them in the afternoon." Lao Yu told reporters while busy.

Not only are river mussels hot, but the market for freshwater shellfish has been good recently. Many operators of the Omi Aquatic Products Market said that because of the good business, the number of purchases in recent days has changed from once a day to once a day in the morning and afternoon.

Behind the hot sales, only because it is the fattest season of freshwater shellfish meat of the year, many restaurants have also taken advantage of the trend to launch new products in season, and even restaurants use Thai food to cook snails, trying to attract customers with mixing and matching methods.

From 20 to 300 pounds a day, snail river mussels have recently sold well

Yesterday morning, the delivery man Xiao Li moved 100 kilograms of snails off the car and placed them in front of Zhao Guohui's stall, this batch of snails was booked by Zhao Guohui from a snail wholesaler in Deqing the day before, the order price was 3 yuan / jin, the retail price was 5 yuan / jin, according to the agreement, there was a batch of snails with a total of 200 kilograms in the afternoon, which was only his current sales volume in one day, of which 70% was supplied to the hotel. Before that, Zhao Guohui only sold twenty or thirty pounds of snails a day.

Just as popular as snails are river mussels. Yesterday at the Mitsuhashi Farmers' Market, Zhou Liangdong, a river mussel seller, was digging up mussel meat, and in front of his stall, waiting customers lined up. Zhou Liangdong's son pounded the mussel meat on the side. "Now the river mussels, the meat is fat, many people will buy river mussels to taste the fresh, I let my son to help." Zhou Liangdong said.

Zhang Qiang of Junkai Aquaculture Farm in Yuyue Town, Deqing County, revealed that the river mussels in the current farm are gradually entering the harvest period, about 3,000 kilograms of river mussels can be harvested every day, more than 90% are sold to Hangzhou, with the rise of temperature, the production of river mussels will continue to increase, and it is expected to reach its peak in mid-March. "According to the experience of previous years, the sales volume of river mussels can reach 5,000 pounds per day." he said.

Xu Bin, head of the Hangzhou Qingtaimen Farmers' Market, said that among the freshwater aquatic products with rapid sales in the vegetable farm, snails and clams are in the top two. In his opinion, this is related to the fact that freshwater shellfish have entered the fertilization period.

Ji Yushan, head of The Hangzhou Liangzhu Aquatic Products Wholesale Market, said that the peak season of freshwater shellfish consumption generally starts in March and lasts until the end of May, and the sales volume of snail operators in the market is currently 3,000 kg-4,000 kg / day, and the wholesale volume of the entire market is more than 20,000 kg, and the sales of clams and river clams have also increased a lot compared with usual.

"When citizens choose snails, it is best to choose snails from Hangzhou, Deqing and Jiande, which are thicker in flesh and sweeter in taste. When buying river mussels, try to choose smaller ones, so that river mussels are easier to cook. Ji Yushan said.

Fancy eating brings small business opportunities to restaurants

So, which approach would you choose for shellfish such as clams and snails? If a curry snail is in front of you, will you try it?

In fact, for eating this thing, Hangzhou people are still very willing to try innovative dishes.

On Saturday evening, in front of the old man rice noodle casserole shop, many people rushed to taste the brine snail newly launched by the boss Chen Rongming, which is somewhat like a brine chicken claw, the taste is divided into spicy and non-spicy two, and it is more flavorful to eat.

The New Zhou Ji Drum Tower restaurant has launched a strange snail, which is quite similar to Thai dishes in the style, not only adding curry, but also adding some onions. According to the manager on duty in the store, although the highest order rate among freshwater shellfish is still sauce burst snails, strange snails are also very popular, with more than 30 daily sales.

At the Qingjiang Road store, posters of Clam Rice Noodles were posted on the front of the store. According to the store manager Zhang Qiuping, this restaurant, which is famous for its spicy and hot, has accounted for more than 40% of the total sales in the store since the launch of clam rice noodles. More than 70 pounds of clams are used up every day in the store, and some of these clams are made into ingredients for rice noodles, and some are directly made into dishes.

In the recent food and beverage takeaway business, shellfish have also become the protagonists.

Wang Guanghua, a delivery man for Hummingbird crowdsourcing, who is responsible for the takeaway delivery in the area of Four Seasons Qing and Wangjiangmen, said that with the rise in temperature, there are many shellfish in the takeaway dishes, especially the fastest growth rate of wen clams, "Last Saturday, from 8 pm to 9 o'clock in the hour, I delivered a total of more than 20 takeaways, of which 12 takeaways with clams."

Wang Guanghua found that at present, there are many catering shops with takeaway business, while lowering the price of Wen Clam, increasing the starting price of food delivery, many customers rush to the low price of Wen Clam to consume, in order to avoid the delivery fee, they have to order some other dishes. For restaurants, shellfish such as clams have also led to an increase in sales of other varieties in the store. (Daily Business Daily)