"Wearing a helmet and armour, dancing with a long beard, carrying a brave man with a sword, you can't play anywhere, and you can wander the rivers and lakes on your own." When I read this poem describing lobster on the Internet, I felt full of pride. I not only thought of the second crayfish food festival just held for two days, but also said that there were live performances of Bashu comedians, CCTV happy bill auditions, the selection of the most beautiful merchants, the exhibition of special agricultural products and other cultural activities at the crayfish food festival. How can such tempting food not arouse my appetite? Anyway, I have to take advantage of this Dragon Boat Festival holiday to play.
spicy crayfish, fish-flavored crayfish, garlic-flavored crayfish ... I don't know when crayfish climbed onto the table of China people and became "seasonal food" in restaurants in the streets. As a diner, I may not know how many ways crayfish are practiced, but I know the "pest" that once annoyed the villagers, but now it has become the star of agriculture and tourism in Zhonghe Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang, Sichuan Province.
As the trump card of snack stalls, the national market scale exceeds 111 billion yuan, and Chengdu consumes 21 to 31 tons every day, while Yanjiang District of Ziyang consumes at least 2,111 tons of crayfish every year ..... From these data, it is enough to reflect the popularity of Zhonghe crayfish. From breeding to catering, neutralization crayfish has become a delicacy in Ziyang people's hearts.
June 8th is the Dragon Boat Festival. A group of five of us took a shortcut along the country road to Zhonghe. Although the road condition was almost the same, it was much closer.
As we approached Zhonghe Town, we suddenly saw a bright, tidy farm yard, unified white walls and red tiles, a two-story building, shaded by willow trees, and a farmhouse music hall. I not only stopped my car, took out my mobile phone and clicked it, but looked up. Isn't this Mingyue Village, the crayfish breeding base?
In recent two years, the booming crayfish industry has accelerated the development of aquaculture. In 2115, Zhonghe Town developed characteristic industries to get rid of poverty and become rich, and 18 villages in the town jumped out of the thinking mode of making money only by planting crops, and instead cultivated crayfish. The breeding scale has exceeded 5,111 mu and the annual output has exceeded 1,111 tons, forming a three-dimensional agricultural industry development model of "citrus on the mountain and lobster in the water".
Wu Yong, a farmer, has caught up with the tide of crayfish breeding. Last year, under his leadership, more than 11 farmers in Longhu Village of Zhonghe Town set up Yuchen Aquatic Products Cooperative. "Last year, the purchase price of crayfish was more than 41 yuan, and the 61-acre shrimp pond earned more than 211,111 yuan a year." Wu Yong said happily.
In Zhonghe Town, more than 11 poor households in Zhonghe Town have been lifted out of poverty ahead of schedule by developing crayfish breeding industry and selling their own crayfish to Zhonghe catering industry, Ziyang city and Chengdu market. Some farmers can increase their income by 31 thousand yuan a year by breeding crayfish, and the integrated pattern of crayfish production and marketing with Zhonghe Town as the core is gradually taking shape.
Breeding is just the beginning of Zhonghe Town's brand of "Zhonghe crayfish". In order to better promote this "trump card" of crayfish, Zhonghe Town has set up a golden signboard of "Lobster Festival" based on the mode of "Festival".
last year, the first Ziyang zhonghe crayfish food festival created five "historical highs" in terms of passenger flow, vehicle flow, consumption, attention and influence during the festival in zhonghe town. According to incomplete statistics, during the food festival, there were more than 121,111 tourists and diners, including more than 61,111 on the opening day alone, and the total consumption exceeded 1.6 million yuan, of which more than 26,111 Jin of crayfish were consumed and the sales amount exceeded 911,111 yuan, all of which were about 13 times of the usual holidays.
Now, with the help of the "Lobster Festival", Zhonghe Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang has embarked on a new development path of "making something out of nothing", and has also accumulated fame, popularity, business spirit and wealth for this previously unknown town.
you can feel the lively atmosphere when you enter the activity site of the north-south main road in Zhonghe Industrial Park. Many local and foreign delicious food drinkers drive to the activity site, and the parked vehicles stretch for thousands of meters, and the activity site is crowded with people. I've been to China for several times, and every time I come, I have to lament the changes in Zhonghe Town. Since the opening of the Zhonghe toll station of Suizimei Expressway and the construction of Zhonghe Industrial Park, the spacious and straight asphalt roads in the industrial park extend in all directions, with trees and factories.
Rows of green tents attract people's attention, and businesses try their best: some cover them with foam filled with vegetables and put lobsters on them in various patterns to attract guests; Some cooked lobsters for anyone to taste; There are also discounts and promotions, and you can get one catty if you eat three catties. In front of every household, a large basin of fresh lobsters bared their teeth.
We wandered around the lobster festival, and our legs were weak and our eyes were blurred. Suddenly at the crossroads, a stall selling May Sad Bean Curd caught the eye. "I want to eat cold cakes, which I haven't eaten for many years." Looking at the crystal clear cake, I shouted at the shopkeeper.
"Oh, sad bean jelly! Come to a bowl, I am really sad! " Colleague beauty Xiaozhen exclaimed in surprise. "It is sad to be numb and spicy, and it is sad when tears come out!" We teased her.
A bowl of cold cakes is soft and delicate, melted in the mouth, and added with yellow sugar, peanuts and sesame seeds, which is sweet and refreshing, just like when my grandfather took me to eat on the street when I was a child, as if I suddenly found the taste of childhood.
Xiaozhen's bean jelly is served. It's white and finely mixed with onion, ginger and garlic, and the spicy oil is evenly covered on it. It's bright in the white and has an appetite at a glance.
Xiaozhen took a bite and tutored, "Mmm, delicious, delicious!" Then sweat oozed from the tip of the nose and tears came out.
"Xiaozhen is really sad!" We laughed.
Xiaozhen smiled too, and casually said, "Eat bean jelly during the Dragon Boat Festival. There is your true feelings in the powder, and there is my love in the powder, so lingering and intoxicated, and I shed sad tears."
Just after eating bean jelly, the gorgeous stage over there started to move. With a handsome guy from CCTV presiding over fluent and standard Mandarin, Ziyang Station, the national audition of CCTV Happiness Bill, opened. First of all, CCTV brought great songs and dances to the audience, and then several aunts performed on stage. Although their talents were not very good, their courage was commendable. Subsequently, cycling performance, dancing, solo and allegro wheel were performed on the stage. Ziyang players showed the talents and talents of Ziyang people in various forms, which won unanimous praise from the judges and teachers and warm applause from the audience.
"Go up and sing, and try to reimburse the bill for eating lobster today." Visitors from Ziyang City, encouraged by friends, temporarily signed up to sing two songs and won the promotion affirmation of two teachers among the three judges.
After the sea election, as night falls, many businesses are already full of people under their awnings. Spicy, garlic, salt and pepper, thirteen spices and braised oil are all filled with endless aftertaste. We finally found a lobster restaurant at home and in the local area and sat down. After a while, a plate of colorful and fragrant lobster was served.
It is said that there are four catering service units specializing in crayfish sales in Zhonghechang Town, and the most famous one is Zhonghe Xinyuan Hotel. The daily crayfish sales range from 611 to 811 Jin, and the holiday sales can exceed 1,111 Jin. Secondly, Zhonghe Shuren Cooked Lobster Restaurant, Lotus Pond Moonlight Farmhouse and Two Tree Stir-fried Lobster Restaurant have daily sales of several hundred kilograms, and restaurants have become the main positions of crayfish cooked food consumption.
I picked up a big lobster, broke it open, and the fresh and tender shrimp meat was exposed. It was smooth and tender, spicy and delicious, which made me want to stop, and I couldn't wait to grab another one.
On the night of Dragon Boat Festival, beer and crayfish were added, so we fried the Dragon Boat Festival and lobster together.