Rushing to the sea: I can see the prompts

Chapter 250 Looking for Chinese Sturgeon

Swordfish is indeed known as the most delicious river food. The meat is extremely tender and delicious, fat but not greasy, and has a light fragrance.

"Brother, the craftsmanship of the master in your shop is excellent!" Zhang Yaohua praised.

The shop owner said modestly: "Thank you, thank you! The main thing is that the ingredients are good, and everyone can enjoy their meal."

He didn't dare to take credit.

If Jiang Dao doesn't taste good, diners will be so angry that they smash his shop.

Of course, the chef in his restaurant is also very skilled.

Even cleaning saury is very particular.

When cleaning swordfish, never disembowel it like other fish. Instead, use two bamboo and wooden square chopsticks, insert them upside down from the gills into the belly, stir it gently, and lift it up gently. What about the intestines? The fish came out right away. As long as the gills are torn off and rinsed in clean water, the saury is ready for the pot.

"Unfortunately, it's really hard to catch wild jiangdao now. Unlike when I was a child, jiangdao was not difficult to catch. I had it in my hometown.

When I was a kid, although saury was cheap, I couldn't bear to steam it one piece at a time. I always cut it into three pieces and put three pieces of saury in three small gold-rimmed bowls.

Grease the bottom of each bowl with lard oil, place a piece of ginger on it, put a green onion knot, find ham, winter bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms from the corners and cut them into shreds, then pour a little Wasabi soy sauce, and sprinkle a little sugar and salt.

Finally, don’t forget to pour a little fat on the fish, put it in a large steamer and steam it for five or six minutes. When the saury comes out of the pot, you can smell it. "As he spoke, the shop owner began to recall.

In addition, steamed saury is not something you just mess around with.

If it is steamed for a short time, the fish will be undercooked, and if it is steamed for a long time, the tenderness of the meat will be compromised.

An experienced chef steamed saury. When you pick it up with your chopsticks and shake it gently, the bottom half of the fish will lie motionless in the juice. If you shake it again, the top half of the fish will gently slide into the juice. The shape will remain unchanged and it will dry cleanly. The clean fish bones are still clamped on the chopsticks, and once the fish bones are fried in the oil pan, they turn waste into treasure.

Zhang Yaohua asked again: "Brother, where is your hometown..."

"It's in Ligang. You can go there and play when you have time. It's not far anyway." the store owner invited.

Uh!

Zhang Yaohua was a little embarrassed because he had never heard of this place.

But he was too embarrassed to say it, so he said perfunctorily: "Yeah! Definitely, definitely."

Zhu Weiguang laughed loudly: "Ahua, do you still know about Ligang?"

When he exposed it like this, Zhang Yaohua was embarrassed to pretend, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Where is it?"

The store owner then added: "Does Jiangyin know?"

ah? Zhang Yaohua was surprised, Jiangyin is just Jiangyin! He remembers that Jiangyin is a county-level city, right? Is this an introduction to your hometown outside the province and directly to the town?

It's outrageous.

There are always rumors on the Internet that Jiangsu sells it in bulk, and Zhang Yaohua has seen it. It’s okay if Jiangsu doesn’t bring it, but if it doesn’t bring it to Wuxi or even Jiangyin, that would be a bit too much.

"I know, Jiangyin is very famous."

In this sentence, Zhang Yaohua was not flattering, but stating the facts. That place has been wealthy since ancient times, and now a county-level city has a GDP exceeding 400 billion, putting many prefecture-level cities to shame.

Jiangyin's geographical location is also very advantageous, and it is exactly where God will reward you with food.

Jiangyin is close to the Yangtze River, so it is not surprising that river knives can be caught.

The shop owner said that in the past, saury was their most popular high-end dish for entertaining guests.

"Besides, the swordfish we have there is the best." He added.

Seeing that all the people present were outsiders, Zhu Weiguang revealed: "Indeed, the swordfish I have eaten is really the best in Jiangyin. In fact, for most people, it is difficult to tell the difference, but you Cantonese people should no problem."

Cantonese people pay attention to the freshness of ingredients in everything they eat, so they have developed a mouth with a sensitive sense of taste.

Some of them are amazing. You can taste all the ingredients in a dish. The slightest bit of spiciness can be magnified countless times in the mouths of Cantonese people.

"Besides, I heard there is scientific basis for this."

Swordfish can be found along rivers, along coasts and even in lakes connected to rivers, but old people in Jiangyin often proudly say that Jiangyin has the best saury.

That's because the saury eats extremely fat in the offshore. It stops eating when it starts to go up the river to spawn. Near the sea, the saury still has the smell of sea water. When you go up the river for hundreds of kilometers, the saury is just as fat. Gone.

When I arrived in Jiangyin, it was precisely because of the one or two hundred miles of river water that the smell of the sea was washed away, and the fatness was reduced without having to travel a long distance.

Therefore, it is not groundless that the swordfish caught on the river surface in Jiangyin area has the best taste.

"It's just a bit prickly."

Zhang Yaohua thought that such a famous river delicacy should have no thorns.

But what he didn't expect was that the swordfish had quite a lot of spines.

Not to mention the terrifying triangular thorns on his abdomen, there are also fish thorns all over his body.

If it weren't for the delicious taste of this saury, many people would probably dislike it, right?

"To eat this kind of fish, you have to taste it carefully and eat it with patience." Zhu Weiguang is very interesting to eat fish. When it comes to his mouth, the meat is meat and the thorns are thorns.

Simply glib.

If you want to say that the people who are the most patient with food are definitely the people from Jiangnan, eating crabs is the most classic. When people eat crabs, no matter how small the crab legs are, the meat inside can be eaten cleanly.

In addition to being able to eat, he is also very good at cooking in various ways.

Take crabs as an example. Each city seems to have its own unique approach.

For example, the drunken crabs in Shanghai are added with soy sauce, giving them a strong salty and fresh taste; in Suzhou, they use June yellow to make drunken crabs. This is probably the earliest drunk crab you can eat every year, and many Su-style drunk crabs are freshly drunk, that is, cooked Ready to eat, the crab meat protein has not yet solidified and is in the same translucent gelatinous form as the drunken shrimp, with a lingering flavor.

Yangzhou's Zhongzhuang drunken crab is slightly sweet; Hangzhou's drunken crab has a prominent wine aroma, and dried osmanthus is added to give the crab meat a sweet-scented osmanthus aroma. This is the best combination of two seasonal restrictions; Huizhou's drunken crab is marinated in white wine, which is Even the crab claws are full of wine aroma.

The guests at the previous table ate saury differently from the one at Zhang Yaohua's table.

Theirs is braised.

The shop owner explained that the freshest swordfish that has just come out of the water is steamed, while the slightly inferior ones are braised in braised sauce, and the worse ones are cooked in sweet and sour sauce, or even fried.

After having a full meal and tea, Zhang Yaohua and Zhu Weiguang came out of the hotel.

Zhang Yaohua joked: "They say we are a food desert, but I don't think that's the case! It's because they haven't found a restaurant that cooks delicious food."

Zhu Weiguang suddenly smiled bitterly: "There is nothing wrong with people saying that. Hangzhou does lack delicious food. If you had tasted the most famous West Lake vinegar fish, you wouldn't say that."

what?

How unpalatable is the West Lake vinegar fish? Even my own people complained like this.

Zhu Weiguang added: "Don't believe in evil!"

Many people just don't believe in evil and come here to try it. Are there any netizens who are so exaggerated? But those who have eaten it will not have it a second time. The taste is even more exaggerated than they expected.

It’s exactly the same as what netizens said: fish is fish, vinegar is vinegar, and West Lake is West Lake.

If a fish is made into West Lake vinegar fish, the death of that fish is a bit unfair. It is better to just die in the West Lake. "Don't worry! My main function is to listen to advice."

Zhu Weiguang took Zhang Yaohua to find a hotel.

His home is still a little far away!

In fact, the most important thing is that he is a man who doesn't like to go home. Otherwise, my wife would not have run away with the bucket.

The next day, Zhu Weiguang originally wanted to take Zhang Yaohua fishing.

Fishing in the Qiantang River is also very enjoyable, and there are many big fish.

Just then, someone called him.

"What? Wild Chinese sturgeon? I've seen it in Ningbo, but if you ask me to look for it now, I won't be able to find it." Zhu Weiguang said.

Wild Chinese sturgeons are very rare, a national first-level protected animal, and an extremely endangered species. Rumors circulate every year that the Chinese sturgeon is extinct!

But in fact there is, it’s just that most people can’t see it.

As a senior fisherman, he only saw Chinese sturgeons by chance.

"By the way, what are you doing with the Chinese sturgeon? Recording a program?"

After listening, Zhu Weiguang felt a little sore in his balls.

His friend works in a television station and wants to create a program to look for endangered species.

Chinese sturgeon is one of the important representatives, so he approached Zhu Weiguang, knowing that Zhu Weiguang fished in many places, so he might know about it.

If the Chinese sturgeon cannot be found, they have to change their target and look for the Chinese white dolphin.

"Okay! Let me help you ask people in the circle to see if you have met anyone recently." In the end, Zhu Weiguang agreed to the other party. He only has a few true friends!

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Weiguang and Zhang Yaohua apologized: "Ahua, I'm sorry! The plan has changed."

Zhang Yaohua nodded: "It's okay! Anyway, I'm just bored to play with you, you can arrange it as you like. I also want to see the wild Chinese sturgeon."

"Okay, let's go."

Before driving, Zhu Weiguang had already checked for news in the circle.

It has to be said that Zhu Weiguang’s circle in the fishing world is not small.

He got the news before even meeting his friend who worked at the TV station.

A fisherman told him that he had encountered one in Jiujiang two days ago, but he could not guarantee that it was wild.

In fact, some Chinese sturgeons are artificially bred and released into the Yangtze River every year in order to restore the population of Chinese sturgeons. According to statistics, my country has released more than 7 million Chinese sturgeons in the past 20 to 30 years.

It stands to reason that after decades of continuous exile, more than 700 million Chinese sturgeons have been released into the Yangtze River. Not to mention that the Chinese sturgeon is overrun with fish, at least the number should also increase.

However, the fact is that even giant pandas like to be "downgraded". The Chinese sturgeon, which has to be exiled 20 times every year, is still a critically endangered animal; let alone increasing its population to escape the danger of extinction, it cannot even be downgraded.

The main reason is that the survival rate of released Chinese sturgeons is very low, some estimate it is only one in 10,000.

In the early days, we scientists did not know enough about the Chinese sturgeon, and our technology and experience were not particularly advanced. Artificially hatched Chinese sturgeons could only be released into the Yangtze River in their seedling state.

However, it is very difficult for young Chinese sturgeons to survive in the wild, and some small fish can prey on them. Coupled with the pollution of the Yangtze River water body and the impact of ship channels on fish, the survival rate of released Chinese sturgeons is very low.

"Old Song, this is my good friend Zhang Yaohua, who is similar to you. He is lucky. Whether your program team can meet the Chinese sturgeon this time, you may have to rely on Ah Hua."

Zhu Weiguang's friend was a gentle man wearing glasses. When he saw him, Zhang Yaohua thought of one word: gentleman.

"Hello! Since you are Lao Zhu's brother, he is also my brother. I also call you Ahua? You can call me Lao Song. Then this time, I have to rely on you." Song Qingshu smiled lightly and shook hands with Zhang Yaohua. .

"Just call me Ah Hua. I'd better call you Brother Song! It's not as exaggerated as Brother Zhu said." Zhang Yaohua shook hands with him.

Although the two people's language expressed closeness, they did not mean it, and it was somewhat casual and indifferent.

Is this the legendary "friendship between gentlemen is as light as water"?

"There is news that Chinese sturgeons have been found in Jiujiang. Do you want to go there now?"

Song Qingshu was overjoyed when he heard this and nodded immediately: "Yes! I'm fully prepared and ready to go at any time. Just wait, I'll make arrangements."

After saying that, he called someone and asked the program team members to bring the equipment and set off as soon as possible.

"Do you want to be a guest?" After the arrangements were made, Song Qingshu turned around and asked Zhu Weiguang.

"I'm not a celebrity, what's the point of making a guest appearance? You might as well ask Ah Hua, he can be considered an Internet celebrity." Zhu Weiguang declined.

Ok?

Song Qingshu turned to look at Zhang Yaohua. He had no impression of Internet celebrities. The ones he had heard of were just the top few.

"Brother Song, don't listen to his nonsense. What kind of Internet celebrity am I? I don't even have a live broadcast account."

Don’t Internet celebrities all make money through live broadcasts?

Although he is somewhat famous on the Internet, he doesn't even have an account or fans on paper. Strictly speaking, he can't really be considered an Internet celebrity.

"What nonsense am I talking about? You just didn't create an account on the video website, otherwise it wouldn't be difficult to have 1 or 100 million fans."

With hundreds of thousands of fans, you can basically be called an Internet celebrity.

"If you don't believe me, search for the owner of Jinji Island!" Zhu Weiguang said to Song Qingshu.

Song Qingshu actually searched it on his mobile phone, and found that it was densely packed with information about Zhang Yaohua. The more he looked at it, the more surprised he became.

"Ahua, can you make a cameo?"

When they make programs, they still need traffic, otherwise why would they hire celebrities?

"I haven't recorded a show before, I'm afraid of screwing it up!"

Song Qingshu waved his hand: "As long as you appear in your true colors, it doesn't matter if you haven't recorded a show."

"That's okay!" Zhang Yaohua said casually.

Anyway, it’s the fishing moratorium now, so you don’t have to go out to sea, just have fun!

"Okay! I'll ask someone to give you a remuneration contract in a while. I know you may not care about such a small remuneration, but this is the rule, don't look at my face."

The TV station provided the money, not him. Song Qingshu was afraid that Zhang Yaohua would be modest, and for the sake of his and Zhu Weiguang's face, he would not accept any reward.

That's not necessary.

Song Qingshu hopes that his friend will get sky-high remuneration on the TV station.

"Okay." Zhang Yaohua nodded.

It's his, and he won't take it away. That's so stupid.

An hour later, Zhang Yaohua signed a remuneration contract worth 800,000.

This remuneration should be among the lowest among the guests. But there is no way! Who calls him the least famous? This kind of remuneration is usually linked to the reputation of the guest.

(End of this chapter)