The author of mullet has never eaten or heard of it in the mainland. According to friends, mullet usually inhabits the bottom of Siam Bay. Every year near the winter solstice, the sea is getting colder and colder, and the mullets only swim to the sea in Kaohsiung. When I first came to Taiwan Province Province, I had a beer chat at my friend's house. He took out a pair of bright yellow and amber mullet larvae. First of all, I soaked cotton in good white dry wine and rubbed it repeatedly to peel off a film on the surface. Then peel off the skin together, cut it into small slices and bake it slowly on a small charcoal stove. Bake it on the fish, and one by one, it will expand into small bubbles, and you're done. With garlic slices, it's delicious, soft but not greasy, and it's better than eating Dutch high-grade cheese.
In the early years, Shanglinhua in Taiwan Province Province was a famous restaurant. Because when I first arrived in Taiwan Province Province, I didn't know how to order. There is a waitress in the restaurant, nicknamed the aircraft carrier. She is named for her generous fists. She can swallow half a dozen beers at a time without changing her face. It is said that her specialty is ordering food for guests. Once, she ordered me a fried "dragon sausage", which was shaped like a mini squid and chewed crisp and tender. It is said that this kind of dragon sausage is something similar to fish fat, which is taken out from the belly of a male mullet. Besides delicious, it is also nourishing. Especially not every male mullet has it, so it is more expensive. This dish has only been eaten once in Shanghai Linhua. Later, I came into contact with seafood in the hotel restaurant and ordered several fried sausages, all of which said no. Now that I think about it, the crisp and refreshing smell still lingers on my teeth and cheeks.
Nine-hole abalone
"Haliotis diversicolor" in Taiwan Province Province is referred to as "Haliotis diversicolor" and belongs to Mytilidae. The shell is thin and strong, with colorful patterns, which are very bright and pleasing to the eye. There are nine threaded holes on the back, so it is called nine holes. Nine caves are mostly produced in the coastal area of Taitung, Hualien, and are said to be authentic. Everything made in Taitung must have nine screw holes in the back shell; There are no nine screw holes in the north shell, which, more or less, should not be eaten by gourmets. You can tell at a glance that it's not really a nine-hole made in Taitung.
The advantage of nine holes is that they are fatter and more delicate than ordinary mussels. Eating one is one, which is very chewy. Unlike eating sea melon seeds, fresh is fresh, which is too difficult to satisfy. Nine holes coated with brine and dried on fire can best maintain their own flavor. Unfortunately, chefs in restaurants around East China are not very good at making nine holes, and they can't grasp the old and tender heat. They're fine. Nine times out of ten, they can't chew. If the ligaments are not removed, they may even plug their teeth. I really want to complain about the nine holes. Later, in Lijiayuan, Kaohsiung, I ate a nine-hole, which was old, tender and moderate, fresh and mellow, and it was a big chew.
sabotage
In Taiwan Province Province, Bagai Port in Chiayi, Anping Port in Tainan and Hongmao Port in Kaohsiung are all famous for producing crabs. There are two kinds of crabs in Taiwan Province Province, one is called Red? One is called blue crab. The blue crabs here are naturally not as rich as those in the mainland, but the red crabs produced in Taiwan Province Province? It is also rare in the mainland.
As for eating crabs, Ping Jin pays attention to seven tips and eight groups, while Jiangsu and Zhejiang pay attention to September and October groups. The Mid-Autumn Festival is full of gardens, Gui Xiang is overflowing, or picking chrysanthemums on the east fence. It is always the time to put pliers on wine. But crabs are eaten in Taiwan Province Province in late spring and March, when birds fly and grass grow. In order to get full of fat. At this time, as soon as the crab cover is opened, it is really the so-called yellow top cover. The whole crab cover is coated with crab paste, so friends who love crab roe can feast their eyes on it. But in late autumn and early winter, the mainland eats crabs, and the meat is loose and thin.
There are exceptions to everything. I remember when we lived in Chiayi in the early years, several crab-eating gourmets came across a crab expert named Kun in the guest restaurant. He has a special skill and bought red wine. Keep it in a crock with some miscellaneous grains and bran around it, so that crabs can't move at all in the crock. Feeding cooked and crushed duck egg yolk twice a day is the biting March 9 season in the middle of winter. If you eat red food in front of guests? You can also eat the big fat crab with yellow top cover. In recent years, the medical profession has developed to eat red? Ointment is the easiest way to increase cholesterol, so at present, all friends with slightly higher blood lipid concentration are very wary and dare not hit their teeth more (Beiping dialect means "vomiting").
mosquito
"Octopus" is called oyster in Chinese mainland and octopus in Taiwan Province. It is artificially cultivated in the salt water port and is also the most popular seafood. Kaohsiung New Port and Tainan Anping New Port? Around the lake, it is the base camp for raising cockroaches. Some people who keep cockroaches use fixed hanging cockroaches, and some use floating hanging cockroaches. Cockroaches will be fat and ready to eat in about 14 to 20 days. In recent years, seafood is popular in the society, and the puppet show on TV stations is interspersed with the performance of buying fried clams, so fried clams and clam noodles have become favorite foods for men, women and children.
When you eat clams, you must fry them in a pan. The pot doesn't eat oil, so you can put less oil. You can fry eggs and chopped green onion, which is not greasy and fragrant. Tainan's clam chow mein and clam chow mein are famous all over the province. It turns out that clams are only fried in street shops, which is not elegant. Since the opening of Kaohsiung Datong Company, the food stalls on the ninth floor have also occupied a high position.
Sea melon seeds and large yellow croaker
People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the Mainland think that "grilled shrimp" and "sea melon seeds" are both good drinks. The fresh water in Taipei is also produced by sea melon seeds. Although the freshness is not bad, the shell is thick and fleshy, and there are many gravel, so it is troublesome for everyone to take wine. 1972, the author went to Jinmen and accidentally ate fat and tender melon seeds. The people at the same table are from Huangyan, Zhejiang, and they like each other. A large plate of sea melon seeds, divided by three times and five times, is eaten cleanly and slippery. The seats are all from Lu Yu, so I'm probably not interested in melon seeds. More than half of the plate is left. We take it and spit it out. I once heard a friend say that the sea melon seeds in Jinmen are a must in seafood. I tried it, and it was really unusual.
There are three kinds of fish I like best, white fish in Songhua River and He Lixia in northern Jiangsu. Fish and a large yellow croaker. These three kinds of fish are fresh and tender, with only a few thorns. I have eaten many famous large yellow croaker in Taipei. It is said that they are all from Kinmen. Because it has been frozen for too long, I always feel a little stale. This time I went to Jinmen, there was a chef in the guest house, from Xigu, Tianjin. One day at lunch, a large yellow croaker was stewed in a sea bowl. The so-called stew is boiled fish cooked by ordinary families in Tianjin. Jinmen eats yellow croaker in the sea, which is only a few hours away from the water. Nature is fresh, fat, tender and beautiful. Garlic cloves on fish have some My Sweetie in their mouths. To tell the truth, I have never eaten such a rich boiled fish in Tianjin that year. The members who went to Kinmen that time accounted for a high proportion of the villagers in Ping Jin. When someone praises them, everyone agrees. Three meals include stewed large yellow croaker and rice rolls. It's like going back to my hometown and sitting on the kang to eat my hometown meal.
Pearl snail
The real seafood specialty in Taiwan Province Province is "Pearl snail", which has never been seen in mainland coastal provinces. Snails are very small, only about half the length, and are produced along the coast of Danshui Lugang. British people who lived in Danshui used to make cream pearl snail soup with pearl snail and cream. It tasted a bit like abalone, but it was delicious. Smith, an Englishman, calls this pearl snail a mini snail, because the meat picked by a pearl snail is not much bigger than the match head. It costs tens of Taiwan dollars to buy a big basket of pearl snails, but only a handful of snail meat is picked, and it costs tens of dollars to pick it up. Pearl snails can also be cooked in fresh water and eaten with various seasonings. I once ate seafood in Lugang and ordered a plate of beaded snails. I dare say that every beaded snail has a small stone on its tail, which is almost semicircular. It can't live without the snail's tail. It's hard for me to take it off unless my friends teach me the trick. It is said that the hardness of this small stone is comparable to that of diamond, and it is not easy to break it with a hammer. I think it would be a clever ornament to collect this snail stone and make it into a bracelet or necklace.
Sun Moon Lake
There is a kind of mussel in this province with a flat and thin shell, one side is white and the other side is reddish brown. Our delicious friends named it "Sun Moon Lake". Its meat is tender and bloody like a clam. This kind of mussel is endowed with yin and cold. Summer is like ants on hot bricks. Eat more "Sun Moon Lake" several times, and the fire will be eliminated. However, the yin and cold are particularly heavy, and women should not eat more. Eating "Sun Moon Lake" should only be boiled and dipped in condiments. There is a dew shop in Dashuigou, Kaohsiung, which is seasoned with onion, pepper and lemon fish sauce without soy sauce. Sour, salty and spicy, with unique style. Qian Bao Ang, a painter living in the United States, collected more than 100 shells of Sun Moon Lake the year before last, and used chemicals to remove the porcelain light from the shells. He invited famous artists in the painting field to draw some scaly grass insects with brocade boxes, which is also a unique knowledge.
In Taiwan Province Province, seafood was once the cheapest food, so every meal was inseparable from seafood. But now everyone is booing. You open a seafood garden and I open a seafood building, with live seafood in the east and seafood treasures in the west. In social occasions, it is also considered that eating seafood is a fashionable novelty. As a result, the price of seafood has soared, and not eating seafood has become a feast, but it is not interesting enough.
However, although seafood is delicious, a little carelessness can easily lead to illness of river fish. If you drink some white wine, such as acanthopanax bark or Daqu Maotai, it will kill bacteria and warm your stomach. If I were a glutton, I would feel the same way.