On September 13, in Fat Donglai Life Square, the staff added sea crystals to the crab pond.
Mid-autumn tomorrow.
After enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone is still unfinished, and the National Day and Chongyang Festival will follow.
At this time of year, while enjoying reunion and leisure, people mostly talk about a common food topic: eating crabs.
In this issue of "Follow the Reporter to the Vegetable Market", I want to talk to everyone about crabs.
"Intestinal-free Prince" and "Kikushita Langjun"
From the Mid-Autumn Festival to Chongyang, it is a good time for the literati of all generations to make a quiet feeling and write a huazhang. At this time, they will always ask the "intestinal man" to accompany them. Crabs are called "intestinal-free men" by Ya because they do not have intestines; because they walk horizontally, they are called "rampaging intermediaries".
Crab also has a more elegant name - "Kikushita Langjun". Of the vast number of ingredients in the Chinese diet, crab is probably only comparable to chrysanthemums.
In autumn, chrysanthemum crab fat. Crabs have been elevated to the cultural level because they have greatly satisfied people's pursuit of food in the emotionally rich autumn.
The Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai loved to eat crabs and once wrote a poem: "Crab claws are gold liquid, and bad hills are Penglai." And must drink fine wine, take the moon drunk high platform. ”
Cao Xueqin's description of the "crab feast" in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is extreme. The poem "Wing Crab" written in the name of Baochao is not only ingenious in literary thinking, but also teaches people the knowledge of eating crabs with chrysanthemums and ginger.
However, the ancients ate crab, which can be regarded as high-end consumption. Grandma Liu commented that the cost of a "crab feast" in Jia Fu was "enough for the crops to spend a year."
The ancient crab culture is difficult to penetrate into the homes of ordinary people because of its niche and high-end.
It's different now.
Every year at this time in the folk "popular"
At about 9 o'clock on September 13, in the fresh sales area of Fat Donglai Life Square in the downtown area, the staff was shoveling a white particulate matter into a glass pool with many hairy crabs with a large shovel. "This is sea crystal!" The staff said that sea crystal is a concentrated extract of seawater, and adding to the tank helps aquatic animals survive and maintain vitality, and does not affect the health of diet.
The fresh appearance of hairy crabs has attracted many citizens, and some citizens have chosen to buy.
"In previous years, hairy crabs at this time were cheaper than they are now, but it will soon be the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I will buy a few to go home and try them as a family." Citizen Mr. Gao said.
"Wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival day to buy it, so as not to lose weight." The two citizens stayed in front of the crab pond for a while, and then discussed and left.
Nowadays, as long as it is close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the "intestinal male" has begun to "become popular" in the folk.
The reporter saw that the hairy crabs here are divided into three prices according to their size, large, medium and small, respectively, 336 yuan / kg, 236 yuan / kg, and 116 yuan / kg. That is to say, if you pick three or two large crabs, it will cost about 50 yuan a piece; a two-fold small crab can buy seven or eight for 50 yuan.
It is understood that the arrival of this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is a little earlier than in previous years, so there are not too many hairy crabs on the current market. By the end of September, hairy crabs will be on the market in large numbers, and the flavor is yellow. Even so, the price of hairy crabs this year is still higher than in previous years, because the flood disasters in China this summer and the subsequent high temperature weather have affected the production of hairy crabs, resulting in "rare things are expensive". According to the situation in previous years, generally during the National Day, hairy crabs are listed in large quantities, and the market price will fall.
Crab tasting has a method and is exquisite
"We bought the hairy crab of Nanjing Gaochun Gucheng Lake this year. The hairy crabs on the table of Xuchang people are mostly hairy crabs in Gucheng Lake and hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake. Taking hairy crabs as an example, Yang Party Committee, the chef and first-class chef of Sanding Huayue Hotel, introduced the knowledge of purchasing, cooking and healthy crab eating to reporters.
The so-called "September full navel October tip" refers to the fact that the ninth month of the lunar calendar is suitable for eating female crabs, and October is suitable for eating male crabs. Female crabs mature before male crabs.
The way to identify males and females is simple: the female crab with a round umbilicus in the abdomen is a large and rounded umbilicus; the male crab with a triangular pointed umbilicus in the abdomen is a male crab. When selecting a crab, you can press your fingers on both sides of its dorsal shell, and the shell is hard for mature crabs.
Although crabs are delicious, dead crabs contain toxins and must not be eaten. Pay attention to whether it is fresh when purchasing.
According to the Yang Party Committee, there are two most common ways to cook hairy crabs: steaming and boiling.
When steaming hairy crabs, do not remove the rope that binds the crabs to avoid the crabs from struggling and breaking their legs after entering the steamer. When putting the hairy crab into the steamer, put it on its back to avoid the loss of crab yellow and paste oil during the steaming process. Usually after 20 to 25 minutes, the hairy crab can be steamed.
When cooking hairy crabs, wash the crabs and put them in the pot, then add cold water (before the crabs) and add the appropriate amount of ginger, green onion and salt. After boiling water on high heat, turn to low heat, and after 10 minutes, you can see that there is oil floating up, and cover it for a few minutes.
When eating crab, you can use garlic, ginger, and vinegar to make your own seasoning. Eat hairy crabs, it is advisable to drink some ginger soup.
The Yang Party Committee also specially introduced to reporters the famous dish of Zhejiang cuisine, "Chrysanthemum to Crab".
"Chrysanthemum to crab" is roughly like this: the cooked hairy crab is taken out of the crab meat, sautéed slightly in the pot, removed from the fishy with rice wine, and simmered and simmered in fresh soup. After cooking, plate the crab meat into the washed crab shell, accompanied by shiitake mushrooms with crab claws, and the jaws face a fresh chrysanthemum flower washed with edible disinfectant water. This makes it possible to taste crabs and chrysanthemums on one side of the dinner plate, which is unique.
Crab is rich in protein and trace elements, which has a good tonic effect. Crabs also have an anti-tuberculosis effect. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, crab has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, replenishing bone and marrow, nourishing muscles and bones, activating blood expectorant and leg joints, nourishing liver and yin, etc., and has a certain therapeutic effect on blood stasis, jaundice, waist and leg pain and rheumatoid arthritis. However, people with spleen and stomach deficiency, abdominal pain, wind chills that have not healed, and people with stubborn skin diseases should not eat crabs. Frail women should also eat less or avoid crabs.