When you go to the supermarket to buy fish, you will often be confused by various kinds of fish. So Fanfan specially summarized the 16 common edible fish in , so that everyone can distinguish it when buying in the future~
Let’s take a look~ .
Carp is a representative of freshwater fish in China. It has a large meat, and carp is homophonic to be good. Fish is homophonic to be good, which means auspiciousness and surplus every year;
Carp shows a flat and thick spindle-shaped side, with two small meat beards on the mouth. The body color is generally gray-green or blue-yellow, and sometimes it will mutate, and red and spot-colored carp can be cultivated into koi.
Classic method: sweet and sour carp
. Crucian carp ( Crucian carp, earthy crucian carp, thin head, cold crucian carp, happy head, grass carp board, etc. )
crucian carp is much smaller than carp, its body is flatter, and there is no meat beard on its mouth. The mutated varieties of crucian carp can be cultivated into goldfish, which has ornamental value.
Crucian carp is very tender and tastes good. Crucian carp soup is a traditional milk-inducing food used to nourish the mother's body.
Classic method: crucian carp soup
. Wuchang fish ( ball head bream , shrinking bream, Fankou bream )
Wuchang fish, high body and flat sideways. In the 1950s, more than 30 researchers from the Institute of Aquatics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered that there is a bream in Liangzi Lake that has not been found in previous literature. He named it the rogue head bream, commonly known as Wuchang fish.
has been introduced to all parts of the country since the 1990s, becoming one of the main freshwater fishes in my country.
The beauty of Wuchang fish lies in its tender meat and fresh sweet taste, which is suitable for steaming. As a member of the Cycadae family, there are no annoying little thorns.
Classic method: Steamed Wuchang Fish
4. Grass Carp ( Cypress, Grass Green )
Grass Carp belongs to one of the " Four Big Fish " in my country. It is large in size, and the largest one is as big as 1.5 meters.
The fish is light color or even yellow, the scales are obviously grid-like, and the head is relatively round.
. Green fish ( black horn, snail green, green mixed )
is also one of the four major fishes. Grass carp is easy to be confused. Compared with grass carp, the head can be larger, the avatar is as pointed as an awl, and the scales are relatively messy, and snails, river clams, and shrimps are the main food.
Classic practice: Braised blue carp segment
. Silver carp ( silver carp, jumping silver carp, silver carp )
Silver carp is a very large type of four big fish. It is different from grass carp and blue carp. The whole body shape is obvious.
silver carp has an obvious feature, that is, its eyes are lower than the mouth.
Classic method: Steamed fish in black beans
7. Bighead carp ( silver carp, black carp, fat head carp, big head carp )
is one of the four major fishes. and silver carp look very similar. The difference in appearance is that the head is larger and there are black and gray spots on the body, so it is also named black carp and silver carp.
This fish is delicious, all in the fish head. The big fish head can account for 1/3 of the body, and the fat content of the fish head accounts for 40% of the entire fish.
Classic method: chopped pepper fish head
8. Yellow catfish ( yellow spicy diced, yellow bone fish, Ance fish, Wang Yayu, Wang Dingtou, etc. )
yellow catfish has obvious yellow marks on its body, and there are three pointed hard spines on the dorsal fin and ventral fins. When the yellow catfish swims in the water, it will make a "rolling" sound from time to time. The yellow catfish has no scales, its flesh is tender and fragrant, which makes it a very suitable fish for consumption.
9, loach ( mud, rain, Hu Liu, etc. )
Loach is a very common small fish. Its body is slender like a stick and its scales are extremely small. The reason why loach is called loach is because, as an omnivorous animal, it sometimes penetrates into the shallow mud at the bottom of the water for food.
0. Mandarin fish ( Mandarin fish, chrysanthemum fish, peach fish )
Mandarin fish is a ferocious freshwater carnivorous fish. They rely on the patterns on their bodies to hide between stones and aquatic plants. The mandarin fish looks very unique. Taking the most common mandarin fish in our country, the mandarin fish is a skewed mandarin as an example. It has significant hard thorns on its dorsal fin, with large fat fins, and obvious patchy patterns on its body. Starting from the front end of the dorsal fin, it slanted down with a large slope, forming a pointed snout.
Classic method: Steamed mandarin fish
1. Sea bass ( large mouth black bass , sea bass, Songjiang bass collectively known as )
There are many types of fish in Chinese that can be called perch, the four most common ones are: sea bass , Songjiang bass, large mouth black bass, and river bass .
Most of the food in the hotel is sea bass.
Sea bass is long, with a flat side, slightly raised back, and blunt and round dorsal and ventral surface; the head is medium-sized and slightly pointed. The perch likes to live in the salty fresh water of the estuary of the river, and can also live in fresh water.
2. eel ( field eels, field eels, long fish, blood fish, shii fish, etc. )
eels are very famous and precious freshwater fish in East and Southeast Asia. Whether it is braised or made with eel silk noodles, they are endless aftertastes, because of the large market demand, eels have been widely cultivated.
Classic method: Rollo eel silk
3. 水水 ( pufferfish, qi drum fish, wax head, etc. )
pufferfish tastes very delicious, but pufferfish toxins are highly toxic in the blood and liver of pufferfish. In the long-term temptation of the East Asian people, a complete set of methods for dealing with pufferfish have been gradually explored. Despite this, tragedies of accidentally cooking lead to poisoning and even sudden death still occur from time to time. In the 1990s, my country had banned the trading of pufferfish.
4. Big yellow flower ( Yellow flower croaker , Big yellow flower, Big fresh, Cucumber croaker )
Big yellow croaker is the first of the four major seafood products along our coastal China (big yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, squid and hairtail). Because of its tender meat, large body shape, and auspicious golden color on the surface, it has been a well-received sea fish variety since ancient times.
5. Small yellow croaker ( yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, small fresh cucumber croaker, flower fish, thick scale croaker )
size yellow croaker is not only the size of the body, the small yellow head is sharper and the scales are larger. The method is similar to that of big yellow croaker.
6. hairtail ( knife fish, squid )
Classic recipe: Fried hairtail
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