Peach blossom flowing mandarin fish fat, spring, order a steamed cinnamon fish at dinner, is a good main dish.
Hey? What exactly is the fish?
Mandarin fish (Siniperca & Coreoperca)
Sunfish family, Mandarin and Lesser Scaled Mandarin. The body is flattened on the high side, the back is raised, the head is large, the mouth is slightly oblique, and the small teeth in the front of the upper and lower jaws are canine teeth. The dorsal fin is sharp, the abdomen is grayish white, the round scales are small, and there are irregular dark brown patches and spots on the side of the body.
Mandarin fish has many aliases, the most common of which is the cinnamon fish. Many people think that mandarin fish and cinnamon fish are two kinds of fish, in fact, the same kind, the name of the cinnamon fish, 80% of the mandarin character is too difficult to write, so change a simple homophone, the menu of the restaurant, generally written cinnamon fish.
If you are familiar with the article about fish in natural bacteria, you should be familiar with a general rule: a name for fish can often refer to N species of fish, and the same is true for mandarin fish.
Mandarin fish is a collective term for all mandarin and lesser-scaled mandarin fish. Now they are assigned to the sunfish family, but in fact, which family they belong to is still controversial.
Mandarin fish used to be classified in the family Bassidae, which produces a famous and delicious fish, the grouper. Well, speaking of which, although one is in the sea and one is in the river, the taste and meat quality of mandarin fish and grouper after steaming are really a bit like it... Unfortunately, mandarin fish have now been removed from the bass family.
Mandarin fish has no intermuscular spines, so it is no wonder that it has become a delicacy that Chinese has pursued since ancient times. As a freshwater fish, mandarin fish does not have the unique earthy smell of freshwater fish, which can withstand the test of steaming, and can be said to have the rare virtues of freshwater fish.
In addition to steamed mandarin fish, squirrel fish and stinky mandarin fish are also two of the more common practices. Stinky mandarin fish and stinky tofu, need to have a certain degree of receptivity, squirrel fish is much more acceptable, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour is me. Although there is no place like a squirrel that I really can't see it... him, just eat it.
Delicious mandarin fish are fierce and carnivorous, mainly eating small aquatic animals such as fish and shrimp. They can reproduce naturally in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and generally lay eggs on rainy days or in a micro-flowing environment, and fertilized eggs are incubated by drifting with the water.
Therefore, in most of the freshwater systems in China, mandarin fish can be seen in both north and south.
As I said, mandarin fish actually contains a number of species of fish. However, whether it is farming or wild fishing, the mandarin fish that we see on the table is basically the Siniperca chuatsi in the mandarin fish, the size is relatively large, everyone feels it, of course, the lens has a magnification effect:
There are no mandarin fish in xinjiang's rivers and lakes themselves, but foreign introduction and breeding have long been successful, and fish pond reservoirs are not uncommon.
Mandarin fish are more active in warm places, mandarin fish are farmed in the northern region, usually relying on natural breeding fry is not enough, mainly from the south to buy and transport artificially bred fry, or simply from the south to transport adult fish, the cost is relatively high, which is why northern mandarin fish is more expensive than the south.
If you buy fresh mandarin fish to go home, be careful when you pack it. Including all the dorsal, and ventral fins, the tip of the mandarin fish has poisonous glands in its spines, and it is quite painful to be accidentally pricked. If you are unfortunate enough to become inflamed, seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Fish names are often confusing, such as the salmon mentioned last time. Mandarin fish have a similar problem, is the famous red cinnamon fish (hotg tinca) in Burjin, Xinjiang, a red mandarin fish? In fact, despite the fact that there is a cinnamon fish in the name, the red cinnamon fish is a fish of the carp family and the genus of fish of the genus Guì, which has nothing to do with the peach blossom flowing water cinnamon fish.
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