It is called "Xi Shi Tongue", the meat is crisp and tender, the taste is extremely delicious, and it is a famous dish at the state banquet. It is said that every time Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia comes to Beijing, he asks for this dish by name, which is called Zhanggang Sea Mussel.
Changle Zhanggang Sea Mussel is a specialty of Zhanggang in Changle City, Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Sea mussels are the treasures of China's seafood, the flesh is crisp and tender, the color is white and transparent, the mussel shell is slightly triangular, the shell is very thin, only grows in the fine sand of the seawater at the confluence of brackish water, and the quality produced by Changle Zhanggang is the best. It is on a par with the Italian clams and is well-known at home and abroad.
Sea mussel shell is oval-shaped, the surface has a wheel line pattern, there are purple, yellow, gray colors, soft bowls, there are heart, liver, stomach, intestines and other organs, spawning at the turn of spring and summer, in vitro fertilization, small mussels feed on seaweed, to three or four years old mussels, there are as large as one pound, dark purple color, thick shell patterns, floating sea surface and sea tides, can glow, so the former into the mussel has: "mussel shell generation lamp fishing fire late" sentence.
Zhanggang and the nearby sea areas are deeply loved by consumers because of their unique marine geography and water quality ecological environment, the sea mussels produced are large, the meat is crisp and tender, the taste is extremely delicious and the taste is unique. As early as the Ming Dynasty, the Zhanggang sea mussel has become a court tribute. During President Nixon's visit to China in 1972, the Zhanggang sea mussel was served as a special offering to the state banquet, and since then it has become a famous dish for the state banquet.
In the early 1980s, after the Fujian cuisine masters Qiang Mugen and Qiang Ququ created the "Chicken Soup Sea Mussel", a special dish in Fujian cuisine, Zhanggang Sea Mussels began to become famous all over the world. In 2010, Zhanggang Sea Mussel was approved as a national geographical indication product. Zhanggang Sea Mussel has participated in the 2014, 2016, 2017 Fuzhou International Fisheries Expo, becoming a bright business card of Fujian Changle.