In Shandong, the liquor bureau has always played a simple role in words.
In the toast of three ups and downs, many people insisted on the last moment, and luckily passed this level, the premise of whether you can join the circle, but also to see your understanding of the last hard dish, everyone is looking forward to - fried scorpion.
With the meaningful smile of the main companion, the waiter unveiled the golden bell cover, and the scorpion with the pot gas had lost its fierce wildness and was golden and crispy.
The master escort picked up a scorpion, first head and tail, chewed two or three, and then sipped the sauce, meaningfully patting the thigh of the guest.
The whole table did not say a word, there was nowhere to hide, you must know that Lin Chong had the courage to break into the White Tiger Hall, and did not dare to eat a plate of scorpions on Liangshan.
"This boy doesn't even dare to eat scorpions, and he can still rank sixth, that's it?"
Some foreign bosses went to Shandong for the first time to dig for gold, met this face, thinking that they had arrived in Guangdong, such a fierce dish, even water cockroaches and bean dan were willing to bow to the wind, because this thing is poisonous.
But the original soup of the original food, fried with peanut oil from Shandong, during the period no longer add any condiments, the locals say, hundreds of degrees of hot oil rolled on dozens of seconds, what evil will be invisible.
The fastest way to pass the circle test is to eat this creepy arthropod, and the code for a career to flourish is from the initial Yue out of Neidan to the later feast.
If you only look at the efficiency of work, scorpions are in many cases better than Maotai and Wuliangye.
This stress test is full of fundamentalist Shandong fun, and the contrast between the vicious ingredients and the enthusiasm on the table is extremely obvious.
After the civilized Shandong activities were carried out, the style of persuading wine has gradually faded, and now everyone has begun to persuade scorpions, but "wine" has been replaced by "scorpions", still retaining the rhyming style of the establishment.
"Eating scorpions to eat tails, the boss does not dare to be afraid", "people are in good spirits when they are happy, eating scorpions are good boys", "Scorpions are on a plate of intestines, brothers and sisters have something to help".
If you really have an iron head and pretend to be drunk and don't eat, the hospitable owner will never let the atmosphere go desolate.
The scorpion on the wine table can be decanted.
If your throat is inflamed and you are afraid of stuck throat, the scorpion can go to the fire to reduce swelling; if you have a cold, the scorpion can improve the resistance; if you are afraid of allergies, the scorpion will increase the onion, and the scene can be desensitized.
The scorpion in the mouth of the Shandong master can penetrate any of your current excuses.
It wasn't until the deputy companion whispered "this thing is aphrodisiac" in your ear that it conquered people's last defenses.
In fact, whether it is from the literature of Chinese and Western medicine or witch doctors, this thing cannot aphrodisiac, but can only strengthen the courage.
However, the scorpion has a certain effect on the crooked mouth and eyes, and the blood is scattered, from this point of view, after being beaten by people after getting drunk, you can also eat scorpions, which can indeed sober up.
Many Shandong people think that the way outsiders panic when they see scorpions is very funny.
"When I went back to my dormitory in the summer vacation of my sophomore year, my mother blew up a Coke bottle of scorpion and brought it back to my roommate to taste, we don't know what is wrong, and now I still see them."
"The big boss went to Yantai branch on a business trip, I received, fried scorpions on the plate, just two cups to worship with me."
Eating scorpions has a wide popular base in Shandong, and many people are from snacks to large.
The hotel is plated, and the night market is used with skewers, all to prevent them from running away.
However, it is not recommended to eat directly raw, shandong people's food source is wild, after all, it is also the hometown of Kong Meng, and there is no soil suitable for the growth of Beiye.
From Dezhou to Cao County, from Jinan Province to Jiaozhou Bay, fried scorpions are just the most common ingredients.
They are generously placed by the boss, let people choose, do not be curious to bite half when eating, see what is in the middle, just need to be careful, do not be pricked by the scorpion tail to the mouth.
With the revival of night markets around the world, these Shandong food stall owners with scorpions, to the face of the hungry gourmets volunteer science, the set of wine tables on the cure of all diseases of the rhetoric spread across the country.
Some diners enter the pit by curiosity, the special aroma formed by the scorpion fried, over the nasal cavity straight to the brain gate, each part of it has a different taste, after experiencing it once, you will know what is the tooth cheek fragrance.
In the past, its sources were very extensive, the fields cultivated by working people, under the stones in the mountains, in the sandy land next to the caves or in the wasteland next to the warehouse factory, which could be fried, brewed, and pickled.
The scorpion varieties that Shandong people like to eat are different from those in the southwest and southeast regions, and the whole scorpion from the Yimeng Mountains has the highest reputation in Qilu.
The whole scorpion is also called the East Asian pincer scorpion, mainly distributed in Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, among which the scorpion in the Yimeng Mountain area has the most medicinal value, there are ten feet, the price is also the highest, per gram (dry poison) the international market price of up to 1000 US dollars.
After scorpions were listed as protected animals, the previous folk capture was strictly prohibited, punished if caught, and even imprisoned, and replaced by artificial breeding of all scorpion species in Yimeng Mountain.
In the past ten years, the price of the whole scorpion has risen, even if the price is high, it is difficult to buy the "full full scorpion" of Yimeng Mountain, which is often eaten by the people, most of which are eight claws or six claws.
In the liquor store, this once the most common appetizer has also become the key to the owner's strength.
A male scorpion king, a single one hundred yuan or so, a plate of at least 30 pieces, the price of the top two bottles of flying sky factory price.
But not everyone has access to it, and most hotels need to make a reservation in advance.
In the commercial liquor bureau in Shandong, there is no Wumao, the nobles will not be on the table at all, and the key to retaining people is to fry the whole scorpion.
Although the way scorpions are eaten has its own advantages in all corners of the world, Shandong people only recognize fried.
Even, to some extent, this represents the façade of Lu cuisine.
To evaluate the value of a dish, we must not only look at its traditional position in its cuisine, but also consider the preciousness of the ingredients, the folk reputation and the difficulty of cooking.
The whole scorpion king is similar to bird's nest, knife fish, and three-headed abalone, and the price of these top quality ingredients is even in the same range.
Today's fried whole scorpion has surpassed the top Lu dish - clear soup swallow dish, becoming the top of the menu list, called chrysanthemum whole scorpion.
It is also a traditional dish in The Qingzhou area of Shandong Province, with dried vermicelli, fried in hot oil, resembling a chrysanthemum, and fried on the top of the whole scorpion king.
As one of the few "mountain treasures" of Lu cuisine, it represents a kind of sincerity of Shandong masters to some extent.
Many Shandong people can't remember why they ate scorpions, but they always remember the accidental captures that their families brought back from the fields or factories when they were young.
The surprises of their parents in the smoke of cooking soon turned into the joy of fingering, and they knew how to cherish and struggle better than anyone else in the days of bittersweet memories.