Shunde is an important freshwater fish farming area in Guangdong, with a long history, and many people know from textbooks that the "Sanji Fish Pond" originated here. Pond-based mulberry, mulberry leaf silkworm farming, silkworm sand (silkworm dung) fish farming, fish mud breeding mulberry, forming a natural small ecosystem, reaching a semi-self-sufficient state. With the sharp increase in demand for raw silk, a large amount of land has been converted into such fish ponds, thus allowing freshwater aquaculture activities to flourish.
As one of the polyculture domestic fish, mud carp is favored by other varieties for its white and tender flesh, delicious taste and its own "earthy taste" is less, and because the fish meat is very viscous after chopping into fish, it can be made into different dishes as the main ingredient or ingredient, and at the same time has the characteristics of elastic teeth and smoothness, becoming an important ingredient composition of Shunde, the hometown of food.
Fish slip, that is, the fish meat is removed from the coarse bone, cut into thin slices with a knife and then finely chopped into puree. After scaling and removing the gills, the carp uses a knife to lift the fish flesh from the tail along the spine, and when the skilled hand reaches the thick bone part of the fish's abdomen, it will be gently withdrawn, and only the tip of the knife is scratched on the back flesh, up to the head, and then the straight knife cuts the connection with the gills, and then uses the index finger to skillfully cut the abdominal bone, and then holds the fish meat and pulls it outward, and the fish meat on one side is removed. After repeating the other side, the whole piece of mud carp meat connected by the abdomen is qualified to be removed.
Chopped fish slippery or scraped fish green, will be beaten to the top of the glue to make, this process must add different proportions of salt to glue, but also add different amounts of water in the middle. Experienced chefs adjust the proportion of moisture according to the changes in the weather and the different dishes made, so as to create different tastes. It's either crunchy or firm, but it's sure to stay elastic and crisp. For example, for frying fish cakes, there is less water, the bite is real, chewy and strong, and when used to make fish balls, it is crisp and soft, delicate and pleasant.
