Salt-grilled saury
The first meal of saury is at a Japanese restaurant in Fukuda.
It was late autumn, and a few friends visiting COCO Park on the weekend didn't realize that it was almost dusk. Some people propose to eat Korean barbecue, others say to eat sushi. The proposal for Korean barbecue was quickly extinguished, and a few pieces of roasted meat wrapped in lettuce were full. No one agreed to the proposal to eat sushi, and onigiri is not yet easier to fill. In the end, everyone decided that if you must set the tone in Japanese and Korean flavors today, then go to a Japanese food store, at least choose more.
Fortunately, I went to a Japanese restaurant that day, otherwise I would not have tasted so delicious salt-grilled saury.
The first time I ate seven-wheel charcoal-grilled saury, it was really flavorful. There is also a "seven-wheeled yakiniku" in the store, which is also baked in a seven-wheel oven. The seven-wheel furnace is a unique Japanese stove with seven ventilation holes under the furnace, hence the name seven-wheel. The heat of the seven-wheel furnace is concentrated, the high temperature is not hot, the amount of charcoal is also stipulated, the stove fire continues, and the grilled fish is very delicious.
The saury oil made a "beep" popping sound on the stove, smoking, and the fragrance fluttered in the nose, and it was quickly baked. The autumn saury is very rich in fat, squeeze some lemon and drizzle it on the fish, dip it in white radish puree or wasabi, and the mouth is tender and fat, which is very satisfying.
Saurry is a genus of saury in the family Saury, also known as saury. Because of its slender body shape like a knife, and the production season is autumn, it is called saury. Saury feed on plankton and small crustaceans, especially small shrimp.
Saury is the most delicious in autumn. In Japanese sushi restaurants, saury is a classic dish. In Japan, saury is also known as chime, which means to report on time in autumn. Saurry is a common food in Japan, and many people's memories of childhood are saury grilled by their mother.
The well-known Japanese writer Haruo Sato praised saury in his poem:
"Saury, saury, eating saury dripping with orange juice is the custom of this person's hometown."
"Grilling saury in seven rounds, the autumn colors are full of sky." Because saury has no stomach and short intestines, when grilling saury in salt, it is usually not gutted but grilled together, only a thin layer of salt is applied to the fish, charcoal grilled until golden on both sides, and the fat is slightly overflowed and edible, seven points salty and fresh, three points bitter, just like the early autumn season makes people have endless aftertaste.
Some people don't like the faint bitterness, while others love it. It's like some people don't touch bitter melons, but some people are as happy as food.
Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu made a film "The Taste of Saury", the film does not introduce what saury tastes, but uses imagery to express longing and life conditions. He once wrote in his diary: "Saury is a faithful primrose fish, and as soon as the saury is grilled, the autumn breeze blows through the cracks in the heart, and the cold sentimentality also gushes." “
Saury is "autumn poem". When the autumn breeze rises, eating saury, thinking of the wisps, gentle and long.
Japanese writer Soseki Natsume is familiar to many people, and he once became popular with "I love you" instead of "I love you" with "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight".
Natsume Soseki wrote in his work I Am a Cat:
"I really hated that maid at the time, and it wasn't until recently that I stole her saury to avenge it."
Stealing saury can dissolve hatred to the bone, and it seems that the deliciousness of saury can dissolve all unpleasantness.
How delicious is fresh saury?
There's a story to tell.
There is a young man in Japan, because of frustration and want to buy charcoal suicide, on the way back after buying, seeing the special price of saury, so he bought a few casually, lit charcoal grilled fish, who knew that after eating, he suddenly felt that it was good to be alive, and the world was worth it, so he gave up the idea of suicide.
It has been said that if a suicide person is still interested in eating, then he is still saved.
I bought saury at the Shenzhen seafood stall and came back to make it myself, but it didn't taste as delicious as the first time I ate it in a Japanese restaurant, I don't know if it's because of the ingredients, or both.
I still miss the taste of eating saury for the first time, and the first time I saw it was like my first love. Just like Jay Chou sang "Seven Fragrances":
"I describe in a few lines who you are who I am
The taste of saury cats and you want to know
The scent of first love was thus recovered by us...
Rain all night My love overflows like rain
The fallen leaves of the yard are thick with my thoughts..."
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