"Look, sausages, chicken, and sauced duck are all hanging out, as if there is a New Year atmosphere!" On December 4, in a food street near Century Lianhua Supermarket in Jiangbei District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, the citizen Chen Chen The husband saw the stacks of sausages and sauced ducks drying in the north wind, and couldn't help taking pictures and started a circle of friends.
is approaching the end of the year, and the lowest temperature in Yongcheng has dropped to single digits recently. When the north wind is blowing, taking advantage of the good weather, some merchants in Yongcheng hang sausages, chicken, duck, fish and other New Year delicacies outdoors , Seafood merchants are also stepping up the cold storage of fresh products such as red cream crabs, conger eels, pomfret, small yellow croaker, etc., or processing and marinating, to prepare for the New Year’s Day, Spring Festival and other festive markets. The food processing and stocking wars have begun. prelude.
Red cream crab was a kind of portunus at that time. Red cream crab refers to the plump female crab with red cream. Its obvious characteristic is that the crab's navel is reddish and the crab shell has cream on both ends. It is also called "red cream crab ". As the weather turns colder, recently, the best quality red cream crabs of the year have been put on the market in batches in our city, becoming one of the popular protagonists of citizens' tables and restaurant banquets.
red cream crab is one of the hard dishes on the table today.
"The retail price is between 100 yuan and 160 yuan per catty." Master Le, who has been doing business in Ningbo aquatic products wholesale market for many years, told reporters that during this period, after the temperature drops, the quality of red cream crabs is better, and the cream is more red. , But the price is not cheap, compared with the same period last year, an increase of about 15%, 6 taels of top crabs are sold for 150 yuan-160 yuan per catty.
"Our crabs are purchased from Zhangbinqiao Vegetable Farm, and it costs 160 yuan a catty." A buyer at a seafood restaurant in Jiangbei District said that red cream crabs are inherently expensive, plus the cost of loss and processing. They sell them at current prices in restaurants. Generally 280-300 yuan per catty. The price of crabs with less cream is relatively cheaper, about 200 yuan a catty.
Red paste crab is a favorite of Ningbo people. The most famous method is red paste crab, which combines salty and fresh food with a long aftertaste. "Now is the peak fishing season, and the quantity of goods arriving is relatively large. Taking advantage of the relatively low purchase price, pickling more red cream and choking crabs, and releasing them before the Spring Festival, you can earn a wave of price differences." The owner of a seafood firm in Ningbo wholesale market said At present, his seven or eight workers are stepping up marinating crabs, and at the same time storing and freezing freshly caught conger eels, pomfrets, and small yellow croakers, ready to be shipped and sold before the Spring Festival in 2021. "Time is gold. Doing a seafood business is a bit like the stock market, buying low and selling high. In general, this year's wild East China Sea crabs are less than in previous years, so the price has risen a lot. Please stock up more as soon as possible and don't panic." The seafood firm The boss talked about his "business experience".
sausages, sauced ducks, fish and fish,
a bunch of sausages, a sauce-colored teal, a cage of fish and fishes during the drying process... Careful citizens have discovered that during this period of time, drying beautiful pictures has come into people’s vision from time to time, becoming A touch of scenery.
In Yinwan Village of Dongqian Lake, the villagers cut and killed the fish caught in the lake and aired the fish. Under the warm sun, a cage of fish and fish exuded a strong fishy smell, indicating that the taste of the year would be slow from now on Slowly thicken, the ginkgo, red maple, metasequoia forest and the ancient fishing village contrast with each other.
The person in charge of a farm restaurant in Quzhou told reporters that they have been busy making sausages, sauced duck, sauced meat, and wind chicken recently. The air is currently relatively dry and the temperature is low, which is suitable for curing. For example, sausages are naturally fermented meat products with thousands of years of processing and production history. They are divided into Sichuan-flavored sausages and Guang-flavored sausages. Ningbo people have the custom of making homemade sausages. With the increase of foreign residents, local sausages, Sichuan-style and Cantonese-style sausages each have their own flavors, which became one of the New Year's cuisines that aroused nostalgia years ago.
"The New Year goods are polite!" In the Ningbo food industry, a wave of New Year goods war has begun to warm up. A related person in charge of a food company named Zhejiang Quansheng said that starting from the middle of this month, specialty foods including mountain products, pastries, cookies, etc. will enter e-commerce platforms, offline supermarkets, and chain outlets for pre-sale.
Ningbo Fangxing Food Co., Ltd. is the largest meat slaughter and processing enterprise in our city, and the slaughter volume of pigs accounts for about 65% of the urban area. According to the relevant person in charge of Fangxing, the current daily trading volume of hairy pigs is about 1,500, a slight increase than usual. "At present, homemade meat products have just started, and it is expected that the peak will be in January next year, when the transaction volume of live pigs will increase significantly."
reporter Zhou Hui/photo
