Yangzhong is an island in the Yangtze River, which is lower than the Yangtze River. Because the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are also called the Yangtze River, and Yangzhong is in the middle of the Yangtze River, hence the name. Yangzhong is a part of the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River, which is rich in water resources and surrounded by the Yangtze River, and the land is very fertile.
The scenery in Yangzhong is nothing special, but there is a famous puffer fish. Although there are many places that make puffer fish all over the country, such as Jiangyin and Taizhou, people are still willing to travel thousands of miles to Yangzhong just because the puffer fish made by Yangzhong people is safe and delicious. This method has been passed down from generation to generation and is unique!
Every spring is the season when bamboo shoots and seedlings flourish in Yangzhong, so people use these two materials to cook puffer fish. Natural materials and unique technology can bring the delicacy of puffer fish to the extreme and become a national necessity! So every spring, people come to Yangzhong in an endless stream.
Although puffer fish is the best fish, it can also be classified as "poison". The representative of dolphin poisonous fish is puffer fish. Although this fish is very delicious, there is a neurotoxin in the intestines, ovaries and liver. Only 2 mg can kill an adult in 30 minutes, and a tetrodotoxin is enough to kill more than a dozen people. More deadly, tetrodotoxin is so stable that it can't be erased by general heating methods. Tetrodotoxin can change the cell membrane, so that sodium ions cannot pass through and nerve impulses cannot be released normally. Nerve impulses can't work, people's muscles will be paralyzed, they can't work anymore, and the muscles that control breathing will be paralyzed and eventually die!
In addition to puffer fish, there are fish with high histamine and bile toxicity. High histamine fish, such as tuna, sardines, saury, etc. These fish are non-toxic and have low mortality. There is a toxin in fish called histidine, which is contained in fish hemoglobin. Choletoxic fish include common freshwater fish, such as herring and carp. Bile toxins of these fish can cause liver damage, with serious illness and high mortality.
In China, due to ignorance of puffer fish, poisoning by eating puffer fish by mistake occurs from time to time. Moreover, poisoning mostly occurs in spring, which is the season when puffer fish lay eggs. Fish is the most toxic, although it is also the most delicious time for puffer fish! However, no matter how poisonous it is, it is hard to stop China from eating food. There are many stories at home and abroad that are not afraid of poison in order to taste delicious food!
During the Spring and Autumn Period, King Fu Cha of Wu was a loyal supporter of puffer fish. In the Tang dynasty, puffer fish was a royal gift, which ordinary people could not eat; Song Dynasty's "Miscellaneous Notes on Tired Travel" said: "Every spring, willow flowers fall, and this fish is fat. Jianghuai people think it is precious and beautiful. When you lick its meat, a wormwood gets its teeth. It is a kind of soup. Or not very familiar with it, it can also harm people. 18 years old, people died of poisoning. Southerners are addicted to it. "
When Su Shi, a generation of writer and poet, was a local official in Changzhou, he loved puffer fish very much. At that time, everyone knew that puffer fish was a kind of fish with delicious meat, but its liver, ovaries and blood were highly toxic. After effective treatment and reasonable cooking, it can become a delicious food for human consumption. However, a little improper handling may lead to death after eating by mistake. A friend of Su Shi's is good at cooking, but he doesn't know how to cook puffer fish, so he asked someone for advice and planned to entertain Su Shi.
One day, this friend got a puffer fish, so he carefully tried to clean the viscera, ovaries and blood of the puffer fish, cooked it carefully, and then let Su Shi taste it, but because it was the first time, he was a little worried. A friend's family heard that Su Shi is a gourmet with good taste. They wanted to hear Su Shi's comments after eating, but they were worried that the puffer fish was poisonous, so they observed his movements through the screen.
Su Shi looked at the puffer fish served on the table, said nothing, picked up chopsticks and ate it. At this time, there was only the sound of Su Shi eating in the room, and friends and family hid behind the screen and watched for a while. When I was about to leave, I heard Su Shi put down his chopsticks and said with satisfaction, "It's worth dying!" " After a while, everyone saw Su Shi as usual, and the hanging heart was completely put down.
This is the domestic version of "eat puffer fish desperately", which shows that puffer fish is delicious enough for people to give up their lives and try. In addition to Su Shi's "eat puffer fish desperately" at home, some people abroad are willing to die for puffer fish.
1975 1, a Japanese newspaper published a news: Mitsugoro Bando, a famous kabuki actor, was poisoned by eating puffer fish. It turned out that when Mitsugoro Bando and his friends went to a restaurant for dinner, they were greedy for the delicious puffer fish, ordered four portions of puffer fish liver at once, and confidently stressed that they would never kill him.
Originally, restaurants could not provide so many puffer fish to customers, but Mitsugoro Bando was so famous that the chef could only meet his requirements. However, the tragedy still happened. Mitsugoro Bando ate four servings of fish liver, but before he could taste it, he was paralyzed and convulsed, and died after being sent to the hospital. It's really "eating puffer fish desperately". Finally, Mitsugoro Bando lost his life and the chef lost his license and job.
Puffer fish is a high-end dish at the banquet. Its meat is white, tender, delicious and the best fish. Some people compare puffer fish soup to milk, which greatly increases people's appetite. But after the puffer fish is ready, the host will not give it to the guests, but tell them that it is puffer fish, and it is up to the guests to decide whether to eat it or not. This is very different from the traditional hospitality etiquette, because puffer fish is poisonous, as we all know. Whether to eat puffer fish at the risk of death depends on the courage and delicious temptation of the guests. There is also a strange rule for guests to eat. Before reaching for chopsticks, they will touch out a dime, indicating that the fish was bought by themselves. If anything happens, it has nothing to do with the owner. But once you take a bite, you will be attracted by the delicious puffer fish. At this time, you may have forgotten that puffer fish is poisonous, or you are pursuing the stimulation of "desperately eating puffer fish".
Compared with other traditional dishes, puffer fish is still cooked by traditional methods, such as white sauce, braised pork and stewed soup. But the puffer fish is not as delicious as before. The key lies in the great changes in raw materials. Wild puffer fish used to be eaten by gourmets migrate from the sea to the Yangtze River every year to lay eggs and breed. However, due to changes in the environment, wild puffer fish are rare today. Even if it is caught, the price per catty is around 10 thousand yuan. At present, people basically eat cultured puffer fish. The puffer fish has not been baptized by the ocean, but grew up in fresh water, and its taste is incomparable with that of wild puffer fish. Wild puffer fish has a wide range of activities and a large amount of activities, and its meat quality is more tender than that of cultured puffer fish. But in theory, the cultured puffer fish is non-toxic and the safety of eating has increased a lot. However, because it is non-toxic, it also reduces the delicacy of puffer fish, which shows that the beauty of puffer fish lies in its toxicity. This is most obvious when eating puffer fish sashimi in Japan: when a puffer fish gives birth to a population, its lips will be slightly numb, and the nerve center will send out a signal of excitement and feel "hi". If you are a literary youth, you can probably come up with wonderful poems at this time.
The puffer fish is so popular that it is rich in nutrition besides delicious food. The meat of puffer fish is high in protein, and there are 8 kinds of amino acids that cannot be synthesized by human body. Therefore, if you eat the same amount of meat, puffer fish can provide much higher nutritional value than other foods.
Because puffer fish is too toxic, many people die because of eating by mistake, which has aroused strong social repercussions. 1990 The Measures for Hygienic Management of Aquatic Products promulgated by the Ministry of Health stipulates that puffer fish meat shall not enter the market. 20 1 1 The State Food and Drug Administration of the United States issued the Notice on Issues Related to the Processing of Puffer Fish by Catering Service Providers, clearly stipulating that no restaurant may process or provide puffer fish.
However, in 20 16, the state promulgated the Notice on Conditionally Releasing the Production and Operation of Cultured Pufferfish and the Notice on Conditionally Releasing the Processing and Operation of Red Fins and Dark Strings of Cultured Pufferfish, which showed that the puffer fish that had been banned for decades could be produced and operated again!