Do you know why Qingdao haimi is delicious? What you think is not necessarily right. The answer is: Qingdao's golden hook sea rice is not made of ordinary shrimp, but is made of Qingdao's unique shrimp (oyster shrimp).
Qingdao sea rice is a famous seafood product in Qingdao, most of the tourists who come to Qingdao will buy some sea rice to take home as a gift, which can be said to be a relatively high-end handmade bar in Qingdao. The reason why haimi has won everyone's love, in addition to the fresh aroma of natural seafood, is mainly due to its rich nutrition. Eat sea rice, nutritious and easy to digest. Cold mixing, making soup, and eating it empty are all delicious. Don't look at these small sea rice, but it is really the most delicious food in Qingdao seafood.
Among the Qingdao haimi, the best is the golden hook haimi of Laoshan Mountain, which is called the king of haimi. Laoshan Golden Hook Sea Beige is golden in color and shaped like a hook, so it is named "Golden Hook Sea Rice". Its delicious taste and high nutritional value are unique to Laoshan and Jiaodong regions.
The name shrimp rice first appeared in the Tang Dynasty Yan Shi's ancient commentary "Urgent Article". In the Song Dynasty, Lin'an City had "ginger shrimp rice", which was found in the "Wulin Past". In the Ming Dynasty, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" pointed out: "Where the shrimp is large, it is steamed and shelled, which is called shrimp rice, ginger vinegar of food, and delicacies." At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, the people adopted it as one of the "Eight Treasures of the Sea".
It is said that the name Golden Hook Sea Rice was given by the Qianlong Emperor - Golden Hook Shrimp Rice was listed as a tribute as early as the Qing Dynasty, but at that time the name was not elegant, called Luo Pot Shrimp Rice. One day, Qianlong wanted to eat vegetarian dishes, the imperial chef made a sea rice tofu soup made with golden hook sea rice for him, Qianlong felt that the taste was very delicious after eating, and even applauded, and praised, this dish is vegetarian and crisp, it is really a good dish! Q What is the name of this shrimp? The imperial chef replied that the locals called Luo Pot Haimi. Qianlong Lian said indecent and indecent, and the imperial chef said busily, then please ask Your Majesty to give him a name. Qianlong sighed for a moment and said, "Look at its golden color, it looks like a golden hook, just call it golden hook haimi." This dish is called 'Golden Hook Fishing Jade Brand'. "Since then, it has had its current name.
Golden hook sea rice is processed from live eagle claw shrimp, this shrimp grows in the Yellow Bohai Sea, due to the relationship between water temperature, the growth cycle is long, never grow large (no one has ever seen more than an inch long lamp red shrimp), which is characterized by neat head, bright body, tender flesh, extremely rich nutrition. After the traditional processing technology, it is first cooked, and after natural sun drying, it is dried until the shrimp skin is crisp, and the shrimp body is kept intact and hooked after hand peeling. And this hawk claw shrimp are wildly caught, Qingdao people also known as oyster shrimp, the main production area is from Damai Island to the Liuqing River waters. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, Laoshan "Golden Hook Sea Rice" has become a gift specialty of Qingdao.
After the division of the Laoshan area in the 1990s, the Golden Hook Haimi brand began to be operated by the Shazikoukou Production and Marketing Station, and then began a situation in which several enterprises went it alone and went their own way. At present, there are five or six enterprises producing Laoshan Golden Hook Sea Rice, of which Qingdao Guangtong Food Co., Ltd., located in the Laoshan District Fishing Port Wharf, has the largest output, with an annual output of more than 20 to 30 tons, but the brand is owned by the government.
The biggest difference between authentic golden hook sea rice and other places is that the tail of the golden hook sea rice is thin and long, the tail is "golden hook"-like, due to the high dryness, the position of the "backbone" of the sea rice is particularly tough when broken by hand, and it is not easy to break, because the materials and processing processes selected by the golden hook sea rice are special, generally the fresher golden hook sea rice that has just been dried is cherry red, and the golden hook sea rice is very dry, tastes very dry, and slightly sweet. The predecessors have the chant of "bent body boy jade waist, two inches of silver whiskers and one inch of muscle". Sea rice is soaked in water before eating, the meat is soft and tender, the taste is fresh and mellow, frying, frying, steaming and boiling are all suitable, the taste is delicious, and it is one of the "three fresh".
Golden hook shrimp is rich in nutrients, containing protein is several times to dozens of times that of fish, eggs and milk; it is also rich in potassium, iodine, magnesium, phosphorus and other minerals and vitamin A, aminophylline and other components, and its flesh is soft and easy to digest, which is an excellent food for people who are weak and need to be nourished after illness. Golden hook shrimp rice is rich in magnesium, magnesium has an important regulatory effect on heart activity, can well protect the cardiovascular system, it can reduce the cholesterol content in the blood, prevent arteriosclerosis, while also expanding coronary arteries, is conducive to the prevention of hypertension and myocardial infarction.
This is the oyster shrimp used to make sea rice, and the head is relatively large. The so-called sea rice that is not made of oyster shrimp is not called sea rice, it may look bigger, but the taste is too far away. In Qingdao, the price of sea rice ranges from 60 to 70 yuan a pound for street vendors to more than 100 yuan a pound of sea rice in a seaside gold shop, and the quality of good or bad must be distinguished.
Lingshan Island, opposite the sea in the West Coast New Area, is a must-visit place for oyster shrimp to migrate, so it has also become a production area for sea rice. Every spring and summer, fishing boats can be seen on the beach, and there is a large cauldron on the beach, and the fishermen use pine branches to boil the pot water, and then unload a basket of oyster shrimp from the boat into the cauldron, and then fish it out with a large fence and sprinkle it on the flat rock at the foot of the mountain. The rocks are heated by the sun, and the shrimp will soon be roasted and fried. At this time, the shrimp skin becomes very brittle, and women and children use cloth pockets to pack these dried lantern shrimp and rub them on the rock or beach. Finally, the dustpan is sifted to remove the debris such as shrimp skin and shrimp legs, and the rest is a golden hook shrimp with uniform particles, plump flesh and golden color.
Golden hook shrimp rice is soaked in water before eating until the meat is soft and tender, or it can be mixed cold or fried or steamed. Mixing vegetables the most, such as sea rice cold powder, sea rice mixed cucumber, sea rice mixed with celery, sea rice roasted eggplant, sea rice mixed with spinach, etc., stir-fried vegetables are also available, such as sea rice scrambled eggs, sea rice stewed winter melon, sea rice grilled rape, sea rice stewed tofu, etc., as well as a variety of sea rice soup dishes, how to do it are delicious, the taste is particularly delicious.
Source: Qingdao Food Chronicle