Qingdao seafood three treasures, abalone sea cucumber stone cauliflower

Speaking of Qingdao, friends who like food will first think of Qingdao's seafood, but when it comes to Qingdao Seafood Three Treasures, how many friends can know?

The following is for me to introduce to friends, at the earliest time, there were three main types of precious seafood on the seabed of Qingdao: abalone, sea cucumber, and stone cauliflower. Abalone sea cucumber believes that everyone is familiar with it, but what should be made clear here is that the sea cucumber abalone mentioned here is completely wild, and at that time, the coastal areas were not yet farmed, and they were all gifts from nature. Stone cauliflower may not be familiar to everyone, is a kind of algae, can be made into cold powder, the production process is more complicated, later introduced.

At that time, all aspects of technology were not developed, and the divers we used to call the fierce general. Why? At that time, diving did not have oxygen cylinders and other diving equipment, they only relied on holding their breath to dive to the bottom of the water, and after getting things, they quickly came up to breathe, so those who could dive were very powerful, so they were known: the fierce general.

However, at that time, the sea cucumber was not valuable, and the children did not eat it, afraid that they would not grow up. People of the older generation often say that when there is a strong wind on the seashore, there are often piles of them, and no one picks them up. Abalone was rare at that time, and the Qingdao Institute of Oceanography and the developed cities in the south were in great demand at that time.

When the sea is windy, it is the time to fish for stone cauliflower, when there are many stone cauliflower on the seabed, and divers go down to fish is one way, and the other is to wait for the wind. High winds stir up waves and wash all kinds of algae to the shore, and fishermen will catch the algae with their homemade nets, throw them on the shore, and then sort the cauliflower from the other algae. Stone cauliflower to take home to take home to be arranged one by one in order, placed on a plate, placed under the sun to dry, when the sun is fierce to sprinkle water, slowly the dish will change from red to white, and when it is completely dried, the stone cauliflower can be put away. The cold powder made of stone cauliflower is delicious and smooth, and the key is that it is made entirely of vegetables and is absolutely healthy food. However, the stone cauliflower does not know what the reason is, in recent years the number has become less and less.

Qingdao's seafood three treasures, do you remember?

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