In my childhood memories, my parents were "foodies." The town's farmhouse restaurants, noodle restaurants, and newly opened hotels will ask three or two friends to taste the early adopters, and the wine is also indispensable. During the fishing season, they will also drive to the stalls in Zhoushan or charter boats to eat on the island.
At that time, I didn't understand these pleasures at all, first, I couldn't stand the smell of the sea, I didn't like to eat seafood, and second, I was seasick. As soon as I stood on the beach, the smell would scare me away.
But I don't know when I started, those things that I didn't like when I was a child, but I slowly liked them when I grew up. Food is also a very mysterious thing, it lives in our memories, strung together the emotions between us and our loved ones.
In the past two years, I suddenly and slowly began to like to visit the market at the fishing port wharf, buy seafood, and pursue the first bite of freshness. Also, I hope to drive myself.
So, what are the coordinates worth chasing during the fishing season?
I've listed some of myself that I'm interested in, which I can share with you.
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Travel time: 3 hours
Nearby playable: Goji Island Shengsi Archipelago
These two days, a friend went to the Donggang seafood night stall, and when she sent out a whole plate of Pippi shrimp, fish, and scallops, I was a little envious.
One of China's four major fisheries, Zhoushan Fishery. More than 20 years ago in Zhoushan, there was a Shenjiamen seafood stall, Shenjiamen is a fishing gathering place, and it is logical to open a lively night stall. For people here in Zhejiang, this can be regarded as a pilgrimage site for seafood.
In recent years, because of the renovation, a temporary point has been set up in the East Port.
When you come to the night stall, you can see a row of red tents, each with a number on it. In the evening, people from all over the world gather here, picking fresh goods and ordering food, while drinking wine. There are also reserved programs that are "street performers" who will come to the shed to sing, and it is too lively to be done.
Image credit: @Anna Nee
And the practice of stalls in Zhoushan is also very rich. Horsehead fish potato braised, shrimp and pepper salt to eat, steamed Zhoushan local with fish, pepper fried squid, sauce fried pike crab, fish roe roasted tofu... Eat whatever you want.
There is no need for a ferry or a change of boat, you can drive directly to the stall in one breath and you can eat it.
Image source: @Anna Nee Image source: @Anna Nee
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Every day at four o'clock in the morning, the Donghe Market in Shenjiamen, Zhoushan, began a busy day in the middle of the dawn, the boats began to dock, large sea boats, small barges and private fishing boats on the rare treasures of the sea cargo to the shore, the East River Market is the largest distribution center.
The morning scene, the most sensual, can see a variety of unknown marine life, see how the People of Zhoushan have come to select these ingredients to make exquisite dishes.
Outside the market, there are vendors selling all kinds of fish. All kinds of eels, fish and dried fish all have a salty aroma of air-dried.
Snails, spicy snails, snails, sesame snails, blood cockles, hair cockles, clams, bamboo shrimp, nine shrimp and hard shell shrimp, the process of visiting the seafood market is like opening a blind box.
If you can cook, you can buy some directly and cook it yourself.
Before going, I recommend that you first look at the "Sea Fault Map", and then go to the scene, it will be more feeling, because you will find a lot of creatures that we can't name, such as the trout.
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Travel time: 4 hours High-speed rail 1.5 hours
Play around: Sanmen Kuotangshan Island
When the epidemic situation stabilizes a little, I plan to take my family to drive to Sanmen. Speaking of three doors, the first thing that everyone thinks of is the three doors of green crabs, so where to eat green crabs? Jump to the dock.
This is a fishing boat distribution center by the sea, and on August 1 the boat goes out to sea, bringing the first basket of small seafood. Jumping Pier is a seafood market that locals go to. Buy seafood, go to the food stalls by the dock, pay a processing fee, and you can eat the freshest.
Before going to Haikou, I also drove all the way along the [pier] to find seafood to eat. It's cheap, fresh, and lively enough.
There is no need to hurry up early, every day at one o'clock in the afternoon, the boats come back one after another, the seafood is transported ashore, and a cloth will be laid on the ground first, and then a whole brain will be poured on it.
Remember to pick three green crabs, as for the bargaining kung fu, it is up to you.
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Travel time: 4 hours High-speed rail 2.5 hours
Play around: Wenling Stone Pond, Colorful Small Village
If you have a chance to go to Wenling, be sure to take a look at the Songmen Seafood Market at three o'clock in the morning. Fishing boats entered the market from Cang'ao Wharf to unload their cargo, and a basket was delivered to the Songmen Seafood Wholesale Market.
This should be regarded as a relatively large seafood trading market in Zhejiang, and it is said that more than 20,000 people can enter the market at the same time. Before the sun rises, the seafood market is busy.
Most of the people who come to pick up the goods are vendors, and everyone wants to pick out the first-hand seafood ingredients.
After the opening of the fishing, the first batch of pike crabs, whether they are "pointed navel" male crabs or "round navel" female crabs, have returned, and the recent price should be better.
Red shrimp is very cheap, the larger one is 15 yuan a pound, the smaller one is 13 pounds. If it were me, I might rent a house with a kitchen because I wanted to eat seafood, so I could buy it and do it directly.
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Play around: Shitang Green Island Can be cycled
After visiting the Wenling Aquatic Products Wholesale Market, you can stop by the fishing pier in Shitang. Shitang is an ancient fishing village with more than 600 years of history. Fishermen have settled here for generations and built representative stone houses.
The pike crabs at the dock will be cheaper, but most of them are the purchase places of traders, and everyone can look at them.
Before the fresh boat had arrived, the sisters-in-law of the fishing village were waiting outside the fishing pier market. The boat boss goes out to sea to fish, and the fisherman's sister-in-law is responsible for the wholesale of sea goods, accounting, and the most important thing is to collect money.
The masters responsible for fair weighing, in the fishing village, they are called "sir".
Beginning in August, the harvest season begins in the ancient fishing villages of the East China Sea. Coming to such a place, you can feel more about the customs and customs of the ocean.
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Travel time: 2 hours
Play around: Ningbo city
Ningbo's Lulin Market, the legendary seafood distribution center in East China, even Zhoushan's friends were very surprised to see it. Lulin is on the edge of the Yongjiang River, not far from the mouth of the sea, and fishing boats that go out to sea will be transported here after returning to the port to unload their cargo.
Oversized tuna, rubber fish scientifically known as "horse-faced pufferfish", as well as rice fish and blue chamfish, are simply the identification scene of large marine organisms.
And Lulin's ultimate skill is: spelling. Because the smallest trading unit in the market is a box, if you only buy some, you can't buy it.
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Travel time: 3.5 hours
Play around: Tantou Island Fishing Harbor Ancient City
Xiangshan Shipu Port is one of the six central fishing ports in China, where a large amount of fresh seafood is landed every day. There are two markets in Shipu, one is the relatively large Shipu Huizhou Aquatic Products Trading Market, and the other is the Shipu Vegetable Market.
In the vegetable market in the county town, there is an old woman who has been open for thirty years at the door. Although it is not as big as the big city, it is a good place to understand the umami.
There's always something weird, like a sand eel that's slipperier than a loach.
Image source: @Uncle Tuan Kitchen Image source: @Uncle Tuan Kitchen
It can also be packed on site and sent to the family to eat.
Ishiura is also very suitable for chartering boats to go to sea. Compared with Zhoushan, the price of Ishipu is also lower. If there are 1500 small boats in fishing boats, it can sit 8 people, and 3500 large boats can sit more than 20 people. The tofu fish, crabs, and plum fish you catch are all yours.
Image source: @Little Buddha's Kitchen
You can eat it while catching and eating it until it is in the freshest state.
Let's summarize these first, welcome to share.
Finally, writing about food is really funny, and I often write halfway through the manuscript and want to eat it first. This is probably the most expensive article I've ever written. Because in the process of writing the article... Silently bought a ticket to Jieyang on National Day.
Sneak a peek at my freshness-chasing journey. I look forward to the autumn when I can eat seafood.
Note: Some of the pictures in this article come from the Internet.