Zhoushan people grew up blowing the sea breeze and listening to fishing songs, "Zhoushan Islands are treasure islands, surrounded by waves, flocks of fish in the depths of the blue sea, gold and silver fish with you..."
One of the world's three major fishing ports is in Shenjiamen, Zhoushan, and the remaining two are to be found in Peru and Norway.
▲ Shenjiamen Fishing Port is a fishing port at the southeast end of Zhoushan Main Island, known as "Little Shanghai" by the jianghu people.
Go to Zhoushan, what seafood can you eat?
Here the Three Forces of Japan's Cold Current, Coastal Cold Current and Taiwan Warm Current collide, and the water temperature is suitable, so that both cold water fish and warm water fish can live comfortably here.
Zhoushan people also applied for national geographical indications for the three kinds of seafood here, "pike crab, yellow croaker, and white-banded fish", which truly turned Zhoushan seafood into a nobleman in the sea.
The striped fish produced in Zhoushan is not controversial and is the world's first striped fish.
Compared with the South China Sea belt fish, Zhoushan belt fish are in cold water, slow growth, small size, tender flesh, more vigorous, often break the skin when fishing, selling is not good.
Therefore, Zhoushan people pick up fish and have a saying: "Zhoushan fish is not good-looking, and it is not Zhoushan with fish that looks good."
In addition to these three most representative, there are many other seafood: ankang fish, octopus, pomfret, kiwi shrimp, tiger head fish, mandarin fish, mullet, salamander, mackerel, eel, bass fish, plum boy fish, fenced fish, grouper, slug shrimp...
▲ If it were not for the fishermen who went out to sea to fish, many locals in Zhoushan would not recognize it.
Whether it is mariculture or distant-water fishing, the abundance of seafood here has always satisfied the huge appetite of Chinese.
After all, Zhoushan is still a rich land.
How to eat Zhoushan seafood?
If you think you can fly to Chaoshan in Guangdong in order to eat, then Zhoushan in mid-September is also worth a special trip.
At this time, the fishing boats are in full swing, and the shrimp and crabs are also in the harvest period.
Although there are many options for eating seafood in Zhoushan, keep this in mind:
No locals to lead the way, do not go to shenjiamen seafood food stalls, it is better to go to a regular hotel.
Find the right place, how to eat seafood like an authentic Zhoushan person?
One steamed, two salted, three air-dried. Zhoushan cuisine does not pay attention to the details of plating, knife work, etc., and simply and rudely transferring the umami taste of food is the first meaning.
Steaming is of course the most common practice of seafood, and Zhoushan people also like it.
"A dish of soy sauce and half a dish of vinegar", a simple combination can make Zhoushan people steam the entire seafood market. What plum boy fish, pike crab, snail fight... It's all there is to it.
Delicious ingredients are the only requirement for steaming, you casually ask a Zhoushan person who has run through the field, he will confidently tell you that eating and eating must be fresh and delicious in the East China Sea.
It's just the most suitable steamed striped fish, and it's not the fattest season yet.
▲ Generally, the striped fish is used for frying and braising, but only the Zhoushan striped fish is most suitable for steaming.
Although steaming is good, but for Zhoushan seafood, it can be said that all parts of the country can eat seafood steamed, but go to Zhoushan to eat only steamed seafood is a loss.
Speaking of ugly points, where can steamed seafood not be eaten all over the country? Saying that it is to retain the original taste is actually the most vulgar practice of seafood.
▲ For fishermen, the steaming method is only suitable for fresh seafood, and how to preserve the excess ingredients for a catch is a serious problem faced by the ancients of Zhoushan.
Endless seafood can be drunk, salted and dried in Zhoushan, and these secondary processing ingredients are the characteristics of eating seafood in Zhoushan.
Zhoushan people keep food fresh, the most important method is salting, and only use daishan sea salt, such as salted famous dish three hugging crucifer.
Zhoushan people usually steam the three-hugging eel and fresh eggs and minced meat, and after steaming, they can be dipped in jellyfish as condiments, and the soup flavor is permeated with a faint rotten atmosphere.
▲ During the Song Dynasty, Zhoushan Daishan County was famous for sunbathing sea salt, and by the Qing Dynasty, "Daishan Sea Salt" even became tribute salt. The people of Zhoushan believe that only salt is pickled out
The second is the dried fish.
Zhoushan people are particularly proud of the East China Sea breeze, which is "cold, dry, more effective than the sun", and the dried carp is directly called "wind fish".
Among the fish carp, the yellow fish is the most famous. A must-have dish on the Table of Zhoushan People's New Year's Dinner is yellow fish and fish roasted meat.
▲ In the Qing Dynasty, the "Diet Recipe for Suiju" records that "totoaba, a river fish, yellow fish, simmered meat, very delicious."
In fact, Zhoushan people are still fresh-loving and good at preserving freshness in their bones, and the first thing they learned from Yuyao to the sea was to go to the beach to pick up hair cockles and ask for taste from the sea.
However, Zhoushan people pursue food freshness first, and secondly, food deliciousness.
▲ Fish with fish. Compared to land, seafood production is variable and more prone to decay. In order not to go hungry, the environment forced the people of Zhoushan to invent a variety of preservation methods.
Although preservation technology is now very developed, the Zhoushan people still retain these methods of processing food.
The Yuan Dynasty's "Changguo Prefecture Tuzhi" even records: "Cover the sea and this people, and make fish and fish for years." For the people of Zhoushan, these foods represent traditional culture, and no matter what kind of storms they experience, they will be passed down from generation to generation.
In addition to Zhoushan Main Island, where else can you go to eat and drink?
Sea fishing for the first island
White Sand Island
Baisha Island is just embedded in the junction of the turbid and clear waters of Zhoushan, and the color of the sea water is very special, as if the Creator accidentally overturned the palette, and the color spilled into the sea.
In addition to the beauty, what is more important is the sea fishing. The Inner Ocean Saddle and the Outer Ocean Saddle are the world's top fishing grounds, and every year, sea fishing enthusiasts from all over the world show their skills here.
Route : Baisha Pier in Wushitang, Zhujiajian, is directly accessible by boat, about 20 minutes
Cuisine: Harvests from sea fishing are processed at seaside farms, tiger head fish, white girls, moray eels, star eels, yellow chicken... Tasting the fruits of your own efforts is the happiest taste.
The bluest waters of the East China Sea are here
Goji Island
Goji Island is the furthest island in the Shengsi Archipelago and the bluest island in the surrounding waters of Zhejiang, known as the "Greece of the East".
Goji Island is paradise, and every shot is a beautiful scenery: the white floats of the cultivated mussels shimmer silver in the sunlight; the fishing boats weave through the blue waves, forming the most beautiful map of the sea pasture; the shocking sunrise and sunset of Xiaoxitian...
Route: Shenjiamen Wharf by boat, about 4 hours and 30 minutes
Cuisine: Goji Island is known as the mussel country, and the mussels here are preferred in July, August and September. The mussels here can be steamed or fried rice, not to mention fat, but also very nutritious and delicious.
Small West Lake on the sea
Luhua Island
Luhua Island is another choice for Shengsi Islands. According to legend, Luhua Island was planted with weeping willows all over the West Lake in the early days, known as "West Lake on the Sea", so it was called "Luhua".
Walking in The Green, you can truly feel what is called secluded scenery, innocent life. In recent years, the population of Luhua Island has plummeted, and the fishermen's customs here are more ancient and less known.
Slow is the normal life of Luhua Island, Luhua Island has its own pace, sunrise and sunset, wind and waves, life is still slowly moving forward.
Route : Shengsi Xiaocaiyuan Ferry Terminal direct, about 30 minutes
Food: The main thing to do now is to eat wild pike crab. Good stomach can try the fisherman's choking crab, no confidence or eat braised crab, scallion oil crab and so on.
Whether it's the hustle and bustle of Zhoushan Main Island or other small islands scattered around the East China Sea, Zhoushan will never disappoint you who covet seafood.