"Dude, let's try a mackerel!" Now it's 18 bucks a pound cheaper." At the end of October, the weather in Qingdao suddenly seemed to be in winter. Although the weather is cold, the seafood tastes good! The seafood grown in cold water has a tight meat quality and high freshness, which is also an important reason why northern goods are more expensive than southern goods.
After visiting the seafood market for a long time, you will find that both buying seafood and eating seafood should pay attention to seasonality. At present, fresh cuttlefish is being listed in large quantities in Qingdao, and the price ranges from 15 to 30 yuan a catty. Many people may hear the price, feel how cheap it is, but you have to distinguish from the "quality", in the cuttlefish flood season, not only large and high freshness, the picture of the cuttlefish "gold and silver translucent", a look is just caught on the shore soon, if it is dead or soaked in cuttlefish, the color is white, and very pressed scale, eat the taste is also different.
Compared with freshwater fish, the biggest advantage of marine fish is not only "fresh" but also more meat. In the market, many elderly people will be fresh seafood, such as: oyster shrimp, mackerel, cuttlefish and other seafood, remove the meat thorns after wrapping dumplings, making chaotic meat filling. Many people joke that why Qingdao's big concubine is handsome and his little brother is handsome, which is related to eating seafood all year round.
This season is less touristy, and seafood is naturally not expensive. "Wild" seafood is preferred by locals. Drum eye fish, pomfret, knife fish, grilled fish, toad fish... Being able to call out names is the first choice for people. Foreigners buy seafood pay attention to "big, good-looking and bright", many are willing to buy farmed seafood, take the common local knife fish, the local knife fish is thick, the eyes are smaller than the southern knife fish, the head, mouth is also a little smaller, the tail is short, the body is basically silvery white, there is no special bright luster of the blue, and there is no prominence on the back ridge.
The weather is getting colder, and it is the best time to eat seafood and stock up. The weather in Qingdao these days is sunny, and many uncles and aunts who pull small carts in the fishing port wharf have a basket of 50 pounds of seafood, and one person buys a little more, and many of them are bought separately by two families. Cheap and fresh. Recently, the price of vegetables has doubled, and seafood can not only be eaten fresh, but also dried into dried fish, and it is a rare "cheap" ingredient in a variety of storage methods.
Fresh pomfret, priced at 9 yuan a catty. Pomfret is a wild seafood that can be found in the market all year round. It is an indispensable delicacy for the Tooth Festival during the fishing ban period. Small size suitable for frying, more than 1 pound size price are about 100 pieces, steamed meat is tender, no breeding golden pomfret has a "earthy smell".