China has a vast land and abundant resources. Naturally, there are countless foods that can be eaten. Although many foods are not only found in our country, they are also available abroad, but many foods are not popular abroad and may even be rejected by foreigners. It is different in our country. The working people of our country have superb cooking skills and make a variety of dishes with ingredients that foreigners dislike.
Among the most famous, the author personally believes that it is not aquatic products such as crayfish, bullfrogs, and hairy crabs. These three are notorious in foreign countries and are considered to be very harmful invasive species, but in China they have become Chinese dishes. It is enough to rely on farmers’ friends to breed them.
Of course, in addition to these aquatic products, there are also some seafood, including a shellfish called "blood clam (ge)".
Blood clams are also known as mud cockles, flower cockles, and blood cockles. Many people think that blood clams are the same animal as the northern "hashima", but they are not. Blood clams are marine shellfish, mainly distributed in southeast China. In coastal areas, snow clam is a frog, mainly distributed in northeastern China.
The blood clam looks similar to most shellfish creatures such as clams and cockles, but after opening its shell, you can see the obvious difference. After the blood clam is removed from the shell, it will release a blood-like secretion Liquid, hence the name blood clam.
Blood clams look scary, but they are a real delicacy, especially in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian. However, 30 years ago, blood clams were once included in the fast food in China. Blacklist, what is going on?
China has a long history of eating blood clams. According to data records, people began to eat blood clams as early as 1,000 years ago. Among the traditional food culture in China, the most important thing is to supplement the shape, so it is believed that blood clams secrete. The blood-like secretion has the effect of replenishing blood, and there is also such a record in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Blood clams are sweet and warm in nature and can replenish blood."
Therefore, in order not to destroy its secretion when eating it, the way to eat it is very simple. Either eat it raw or blanch it with boiling water. Although these two ways of eating can taste the savory taste of blood clams, they have been used for nearly a thousand years, but the problem is also so great that blood clams were included in the blacklist of fast food 30 years ago.
Like all filter-feeding animals, there are a large number of microorganisms in the living environment of wild blood clams. If it is not subjected to strict sterilization and disinfection, just scalding with boiling water will not kill the bacteria, so it is easy to infect blood clams. Carried germs. Thirty years ago, in 1988, there was an outbreak of hepatitis A in Shanghai, my country. According to statistics at the time, the number of hepatitis A cases was 340,000.
The outbreak of hepatitis A was caused by people eating contaminated blood clams for half their lives. After that, blood clams were blacklisted by major cities along the coast. At the same time, they were prohibited from selling in various vegetable markets and supermarkets. Blood clams.
But nowadays, blood clams are still a rare delicacy that people love, especially in parts of Fujian and Guangdong. Blood clams have even become a must-eat delicacy during the Chinese New Year. The market price has been maintained at about 50 yuan per catty.
However, eating blood clams will basically not have the same problems as before. First, the blood clams sold in the market are basically artificially farmed, and the sanitation of the growing tidal flats and water sources is guaranteed. In addition, since that kind of problem, people have been more attentive to the treatment of blood clams, and they will only eat them after they have been sterilized. Of course,
is still eaten in the same way. Just boil it with boiling water. If you are more careful, you will heat the rice wine and eat it later.
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