Su Dongpo Shiyun: Spring River plumbing duck prophet, bamboo peach blossom three or two branches. The ground is full of what is short, just when the puffer fish wants to go up. The meaning of the last sentence is that the pufferfish in the sea have reached the time to go down the river and breed in the Yangtze River. At this time, the puffer fish is the most fat, and it does not wait for expiration. This is probably the best interpretation of Confucius's "not eating from time to time".
Yellowfin Oriental Pufferfish
There are also "pufferfish" in the waters of Qingdao, at least I have seen the yellowfin oriental pufferfish. However, the state only allows the operation of artificially farmed redfin oriental pufferfish and dark-striped oriental pufferfish, and "yellowfin" is prohibited for sale. What is not obtained is always in turmoil, the most demagogic thing is to be fatal, and the fame of the puffer fish is mostly based on its risks, and it is not worth trying to die, or it is more appropriate to eat some ordinary fish. For example, the protagonist of this part, "Kai Ling Suo", is also the ultimate delicacy that strictly follows the season like a pufferfish.
Qingdao aquatic products market "Kailingsuo"
The so-called "Kailing Shuttle", that is, the first wave of barracuda caught after the opening of the warm ice in spring, has a very short fishing period, limited to the spring equinox and the Qingming Dynasty. During this time, the barracuda meat is tight and delicious, which can be called "the first fresh in spring", and many old gourmets wait for these days to feast for a year. Folk to open The LingSuo has a lot of praise, "eat the Kailing Shuttle, so rare that it is impossible to say" is realistic, like "Ningshe girl legs, do not give up the barracuda mouth" is exaggerated fiercely, and "desperately eat pufferfish" for a while Yu Liang.
The sisters shuttled against each other
"Kailing shuttle" generally refers to the barracuda, the official writing should be emu or pike mullet, scientific name mugil soiuy, mullet family mullet genus, but some people write liza haematocheila, listed as mullet family catfish genus, here temporarily take the former. The head of this fish is more special, the head width is significantly larger than the head height, as if it has been flattened. In addition to the fish head is a bit of a temperament, on the whole should be considered fresh and handsome, its scales silver flashing, body lines are simple and bright, the appearance is slightly fusiform, the name of barracuda is derived from this.
Home-cooked barracuda
Barracuda is originally a road cargo, and the reason why "Kailing Shuttle" is highly respected is closely related to its living habits. This fish mainly feeds on the algae in the bottom sediment, which has a strong earthy smell and is not usually valued by people. But it will be far away from the ocean in winter, relying only on the nutrients in the body to survive the long winter, just like the valley cultivation immortals, and the barracuda that has flocked to the coast after the spring equinox has not yet been eaten, its meat quality is the best, the fishy smell is completely gone, and even the red tape such as scraping the scales and dissecting the belly can be omitted, and directly cooked on the pot.
Some people believe that for a living marine fish, steaming is the greatest respect for it. Sincerely, the general freshness of marine fish is suitable for steaming, which can maintain its innate beauty to the greatest extent, such as the above picture of thick oil red sauce, chili pepper service, it is inevitable that some of the force is too strong, there is a suspicion of violent destruction. But barracuda is not a general fish, it is two-like, its fish meat in the myoglobin content is high, the taste is more intense, eat not much like fish, steaming may not be suitable for everyone's taste.
Mullet's lipid eyelids. Filmed by: Leon Du Father Fish
For the people of Qingdao, who are enthusiastic about "Kailing Shuttle", this term does not refer to only barracuda, but also includes mugil cephalus in many cases. Mullet and barracuda are very similar, life habits and seasonal characteristics are basically the same, the appearance is as difficult to distinguish as twin brothers, the more obvious difference is in the window of their minds: mullet eyes are relatively large, fat eyelids, like translucent eye masks; while barracuda has no fat eyelids, and its eyes are orange or red, so barracuda is also called "red-eyed mullet".
mullet
Mullet is called "sub-fish" in ancient times, more famous than barracuda in history, there is an allusion to "green sub-fish", excerpted as right: the wife of Qin Juniper, often forbidden. Empress Xianren said that there are very few people who have big fish in recent days. Madame said to her, "Concubines have it, and they should enter with a hundred tails." "Return to juniper, hinoki blames his gaffe, conspires with his guests, and enters the blue fish and a hundred tails." Xianren slapped his palm and smiled, "I said this mother-in-law village, sure enough!" "The cover blue fish resembles a sub-fish, and the big ears are very bad... Companions are like companion tigers, a catastrophe is eliminated by pretending to be stupid, which also shows that mullet has been a royal tribute since ancient times, which cannot be underestimated.
Photographed in the countryside of Jimo
In the Qingdao aquatic products market, there is occasionally a kind of "fragrant barracuda", as shown in the picture above (the only photo taken by the brick family in this article). This fish is not related to barracuda, its proper name is the long snake mullet /saurida elongata, although it is named after the mullet, but it is a lantern fish in the order Dogfish family, which is far from the mullet. Unlike the usual vegetarian mullet, the mullet is a ferocious underwater predator, feeding on smaller fish and shrimp. This fish has a general taste and more fine spines, so it is not recommended to eat.
The real barracuda fake barracuda is introduced, and seeing that the Qingming is coming, those who want to taste it can be grasped. You must know that the time is not waiting, and in the blink of an eye, you will have to wait for next year. over。