The small owners who often eat Japanese food are certainly no strangers to peony shrimp, and every time they go to a Japanese food store to eat, the role of peony shrimp is to set off the atmosphere in the sashimi platter.
Soft flesh with huge shrimp head, so that the whole platter more prominent grade, clip a piece, the meat is tender, slightly sweet, no one will want to refuse this delicious bar!
Peony shrimp, the world's best sea shrimp, because of its bright red color known as "peony shrimp", in recent years, the domestic aquatic market is gradually recognized as cold-water shrimp.
Peony shrimp is mainly raw food, shrimp meat is fat, very elastic, fresh and refreshing, sweet and rich, long aftertaste, so it is very popular in the market.
There are many kinds of shrimp that can be eaten in Japan, but the most popular among diners are car shrimp and peony shrimp. However, car shrimp is generally used for cooked food, and peony shrimp eats important sashimi and sushi ingredients.
But do you know what a peony shrimp looks like?
In fact, in Japan, peony shrimp does not refer to one species, but four! Peony shrimp is actually a general term, let's go and see which cute and delicious guys this family is
There are currently three kinds of shrimp in Japan called peony shrimp: Toyama shrimp, Japanese long-fronted shrimp, spotted shrimp, and a guy named Angel Red Shrimp used to be called Peony Shrimp, but now it has been renamed.
Toyama shrimp is also known as peony shrimp, peony sea old, sea old, tiger sea old. It belongs to the decapod order, the genus of long-fronted shrimp, the long-fronted shrimp genus, the body length is generally about 20 cm, the main source is in the Sea of Japan north of Shimane Prefecture, this is a more popular one, in the high-end Japanese food shop can often be seen.
She can be said to be the "white rich beauty" in the shrimp, not only the color is bright red, the meat is sweet and delicious, the best way to identify is to look at the head: the head is high and convex, there are white spots, and the shrimp body has obvious red horizontal lines. You can eat this delicacy all year round.
Japanese long-fronted shrimp alias peony shrimp, peony sea old, ben peony sea old, Pacific peony sea old, and Toyama shrimp come from a family, even the length is similar, worthy of a family.
The main activity is in the waters near Spitfire Bay-Tosa Bay in Hokkaido, where production is small and difficult to catch, so it is not common.
Spotted shrimp, also known as peony shrimp, peony sea elder, and the two introduced above are a family, but the ancestral home of spotted shrimp is not Japan, mainly from the United States and Canada.
The reason for freezing is that the taste will be relatively inferior, but it is good that there is an advantage in price. It is characterized by a pronounced white stripe on the head.
Angel red shrimp was once called peony shrimp, and now it is also called red sea old and Argentine red shrimp. It is also very difficult to cross the sea from South America to the Japanese table, and the reason why it changed its name is that it and the above three are not from the same family.
However, angel red shrimp is still very popular, with sweet taste, rich taste, and inexpensive price, which is the favorite of many affordable consumers.
In addition, there are other varieties of peony shrimp in the family.
We eat more Arctic sweet shrimp, but they are smaller, and the shrimp and grape shrimp are counted as rarer versions.
Shrimp, grape shrimp and other peony shrimp are from the long-fronted shrimp family, slightly smaller in size, but the appearance is high, the taste is more sweet, the price is more expensive, and it belongs to rare shrimp species.
The fresh and tender body and sweet taste of peony shrimp are unforgettable, and the dishes such as shrimp head miso soup, salt-grilled peony shrimp, and peony shrimp shabu-shabu are also not inferior, so it is recommended to try it when you have the opportunity.
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