How to eat seafood
There are generally three choices for eating seafood in Haikou.
The easiest thing is to go directly to the Cantonese restaurant. There is Langham in Haikou, and Langham has Tang Ge. The Tang Pavilion in Hong Kong is a Michelin star, so this one in Haikou can't be too bad. Roasted ginseng with truffle sauce and fried lobster with three onions are the specialties of this store. That's right. Wallets are not allowed.
Secondly, go to seafood stalls, such as Coconut Sea Avenue, where there is a seafood square for ten thousand people, which is also very popular.
Then go directly to the seafood market, buy it back and let the shops on the side directly process it, which is the freshest and most cost-effective. Fresh seafood is the most important thing, but the easiest way is to cook it before it is fresh. This is the most authentic taste of the real thing.
This market is quite interesting. The first floor is a market, and the second floor is full of processing shops, some of which are like cooked food centers in Southeast Asia.
A sea urchin costs 3 yuan, but because of the epidemic, you can't make sashimi, you can only steam eggs.
After you buy it, the store will help you cut off the spines of sea urchins so that you can take them upstairs to steam eggs.
Seafood price
One in 7.5 yuan and one in 7.5 yuan are the largest abalone on the market. It looks quite big, bigger than the abalone in the braised pork eaten by Four Seasons Jinsha.
The tape (fresh shell) is a big one in 8.5 yuan. In fact, this is the advantage of going to the seafood market to buy your own seafood. You can choose a bigger one.
The processing fee of this shellfish is calculated by quantity. The bigger you buy, the more you earn.
4 yuan for an oyster, the big one and the small one are only 1 yuan.
After the shellfish are bought, the whole fish, shrimp and crab are processed.
Pippi shrimp is a little more expensive, a catty of common shrimp 80 yuan, with cream 100 yuan. It is best to eat Pipi shrimp in April-July, because some of them are mushy. After cooking, there is a red paste in the body, and the taste at the entrance is very good, which is not inferior to the yellow of crabs.
I bought a pound of grouper, 25 yuan. If it's tiger grouper, it's cheaper 20 yuan is a kilo. The Oriental Star can't be found in the market.
There is no problem in buying grouper. This fish is easy to cook. Just steam it. The key is the steaming temperature, which is related to whether the meat is tender or firewood.
Eel, 33 pounds. I just went to Box Horse a few days ago, and the eel of Box Horse is more than 80 kilograms. Buying seafood at buy buy is really fun.
Finally, I bought a vegetable. I don't know why the processing cost of vegetables exceeds the price of vegetables themselves. 7 yuan Luffa, 14 yuan processing fee.
I went upstairs after buying it. There is probably a 10 seafood processing stall upstairs. The trade union in Riga clearly marked the price, and the processing fee of all booths was the same. Don't worry too much about the processing fee.
And the kitchen of each booth is made of glass, so you can clearly see the sanitary condition inside.
Just buy seafood for the store.
Dipping sauce
Hainan people attach as much importance to dipping sauce as to food, and can make dipping sauce with different flavors according to different ingredients.
No matter in big hotels or small restaurants, you can always see delicious dishes neatly placed on separate tables. There are yellow pepper, orange pepper, lantern pepper sauce, assorted sauce, garlic, soy sauce and vinegar.
It is said that different sauces can be made according to different dishes. I made some random adjustments. Fortunately, the food itself is good, and there are not many places to use sauce.
Abalone, oyster and scallop are steamed with garlic. Grilled garlic with shells, seafood and charcoal is rich in flavor and distinct in layers, which is simply too just.
This is the advantage of buying seafood yourself. You always choose the fat one.
Pipi shrimp is used as salt and pepper. Besides being an online celebrity, Pipi Shrimp is also a very delicious food. I won't say how tender the meat is. Even the fried shrimp shells are crisp and fragrant, which makes people want to suck them clean.
Steaming is the most suitable way for grouper, because grouper meat.
My favorite is this eel. Eels are tender, and the fat is mainly distributed in the meat, which is more like pork belly. It tastes like a fusion of fat meat and lean meat, which is very refreshing.
Finally, the sea urchin steamed eggs. It was originally used to make sashimi. Later, because of the recent epidemic, merchants could only cook cooked food, so they changed to steamed eggs with sea urchin.
Sea urchins are not really high-end seafood. This steamed egg can be served with some delicious soy sauce. It is delicious.
If you go to Haikou, remember to take a walk at Banqiao Seafood Plaza.
By the way, there are actually some other cooked food sold here, such as Wenchang chicken, Lingao roast suckling pig and so on.