The motherland with great land and abundant resources is reflected in food. It is really different from north to south, and from east to west.
To be honest, before coming to Guangdong, there was no concept of seafood at all. It should be in the early summer of 1988. I went to Jiangxi for an agricultural economic survey. On the vast dam of Poyang Lake, I once felt infinitely about the beauty and magic of nature. In Poyang , there were fish and shrimps sharing every day, and every meal was eaten by Poyang Lake. At that time, I thought that the people in Poyang Lake were already very happy.
After arriving in Guangdong, I realized that there was a saying of seafood. I realized that Guangdong people, to be precise, are Guangdong people in coastal areas. They eat seafood every day, with many varieties, many names, and beautiful taste. They are Jiangxi people who are far superior to Poyang Lake Pan.
The production of the vast ocean is indeed not comparable to that of inland rivers and lakes. Seafood is a general term for edible animal and plant-based raw materials produced in the sea. It is also called seafood, which is what we usually call "delicacies of mountains and seas".
There are countless categories and varieties of seafood, but generally include live seafood, which Guangdong people refer to as swimming water; frozen seafood, used ice cubes or refrigeration technology to keep fresh; finally, dried seafood, seafood dried or dried by sunlight or other technologies.
I remember that before I arrived in Guangdong, the seafood (sea products) I had eaten were limited to kelp and hairtail. Kelp is generally kelp soup, while hairtail should be fried hairtail, and I have eaten it very few times.
should be the first Sunday when we went to Pingsha . We accompanied our wife to Zhuyuan Market to buy vegetables. We couldn't count the seafood stalls in the farmers' market. We had never seen all kinds of seafood products, which opened our eyes and were surprised.
I was curious, and asked the price while asking how to eat (how to make it to eat), and I asked clearly the same thing to buy the same thing. The scene of the enthusiastic exchange between Jiangxi Mandarin and Guangdong Vernacular at the farmers' market is still fresh in memory.
I remember very clearly that I bought seafood varieties such as Qingkou , mud, 600 , sand shrimp , tape, crab and snail and other. On the way home, I carried the plastic bag with my left and right hands, and went home with joy to prepare my lunch seafood lunch.
What impressed the most were the green mouth and sand shrimp. When the water in the pot was boiled, pour the green mouth and sand into the pot and boiled it. When eating, it was delicious and refreshing. Other fish and shellfish, whether boiled, steamed, fried or stewed, are inseparable from onions, ginger and garlic. Although it is the first time to make seafood, the lunch is really a delicious luxury and a happy tasting according to the method you ask clearly when buying it.
water crab that can bite people
I often eat seafood, and once I almost got eaten by seafood.
It was the first National Day of the new century in 2000. I had just moved to Xinjie Garden and received a seafood gift. My good brother Yang Min gave me a basket of water crabs. This is not an ordinary crab, it is a large water crab caught by three tigers in Pingsha. One basket can only hold three, one of which is huge, and should be more than two kilograms. At this time, although I can’t speak the essence of slaughtering and making water crab winter melon soup, I am already very experienced.
But an accident happened. After I inserted the bamboo chopsticks into the Dashui Crab's Life Gate, I naturally untied the aquatic plants that tied the water crab. The aquatic plants that had just untied a crab's legs were already inserted into the Dashui Crab's Life Gate. The water crab that had been inserted into the Dashui Crab's Life Gate twisted its big pliers and bit my right female finger hard.
In the severe pain, I threw the water crab to the ground hard, but the crab claws that were leaving my body still bit my fingers. After removing the crab claws, my fingers were bleeding profusely, and it hurt so much. After trying to stop the bleeding, I endured the pain and put the wild big water crab into the pot and cooked a large pot of delicious water crab winter melon soup.
The matter was already over, because the pain of being bitten by fish, shrimp, and crabs often was forgotten as the delicious water crab soup was eaten.
It should be noon three days later. After lunch break, I took the car key and was about to drive to the Labor Bureau for a meeting. When I inserted the key and started the Nissan taxi head, my big female finger in my right hand pushed to the steering wheel. Suddenly, a biting pain surged throughout my body. My eyes were blurred and Venus appeared for a few minutes. Only after I saw clearly the location of the big female finger in my right hand being bitten by the water crab claw, and pus and blood were leaking.
That is the heart-wrenching pain that will never be forgotten. Holding the severe pain, I drove to the People's Hospital. The surgeon surnamed Li said to me after asking about the situation, "You need to have an operation, and the teeth of the crab claws are nailed into the fingers."
It turned out that the big water crab that I inserted into the life gate with chopsticks not only bit me hard, but also "crawly" left the teeth in my fingers.
Doctor Li gave me anesthetics on my fingers, then made a cross on my fingers, and used surgical forceps to pull out the dark yellow crab teeth half a centimeter long from the wound. The moment I pulled it out, I thought of Sister Jiang and Zizi Cave. Although I had anesthetics, the piercing pain in those few minutes made me sweat and even my eyebrows dripped.
After the wound was treated, Dr. Li told me that the crab claws and crab teeth were very poisonous. The crab teeth that bit yours had begun to suppurate in your fingers. Fortunately, you broke the wound today. Otherwise, in a few days, not only will your fingers rot, but in severe cases, it will also cause sepsis and be fatal.
Doctor Li's words scared me again and thought, I had eaten crabs for so many years, but I had never heard of the death of eating crabs.
Later, because I was afraid of crab bites, I rarely slaughtered crabs at home. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, good friends will send crabs, and I generously forward them to other friends to share. But the deliciousness of crab soup and crab meat is still often shared and tasted, of course, usually in restaurants.
