The first time I tried to swim with slugs, it should be the day before I was ten years old. Relatives and friends from Wenzhou came to visit their parents and brought four eight-claw giants, tied tightly with straw ropes and unable to move. The kitten at home was very curious and went forward to play with it. The result was picked up by an adult and scolded: "Do you think this is lake crab? A pair of pliers broke your bone. "
From then on, my attitude towards cricket is different from that of weak lake crab and slow swimming crab. As for the memory of eating crickets, it is already very vague. I only remember that crab meat is very big and thick, and there is a pleasure of eating beef and mutton.
I really started to taste the delicious cricket when I went to a friend's house in Wenzhou. The chef who can cook seafood cooked a table full of four dishes with three crickets:
Boil it in water, dip it in white vinegar and taste its original flavor and tenderness;
Cut one into two halves, pour the prepared shrimp soup and egg liquid into the slug from the side, and steam it in a steamer with high fire. After peeling, the egg liquid has become a small egg flower, attached to the crab meat, and smells delicious. Beautiful name: hibiscus, taste and meaning are absolutely;
The last one is opened, and the crab meat is slightly soaked in white wine for the crab to eat raw. The crab cover and crab legs are neatly wrapped in steamed egg soup, which looks like a crab.
Gourmet at present, the two of us eat very easily. After we eat and drink enough, we will fry a little crab roe into crab powder and make a pot of delicious crab noodle. I patted my stomach and said with satisfaction, "I don't know crabs anymore." This is true, but it is obviously a bit premature.
Since then, I have eaten in Wenzhou many times, each time it is more delicious and more impressive.
The most exquisite one. It was eaten in Yueqing, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou. The specialty of a local restaurant is "double-flavored crickets". Generally speaking, eel meat and sea otter meat are mixed together to make a fine fish sauce. Half stuffed back into crab shells and steamed, and the other half fried into small round cakes. Finally, the plate was put on, and a big salamander was covered with a few golden round cakes, which made people have an appetite. Eating in the mouth, on the one hand, is mixed with sea eel, on the other hand, frying and steaming complement each other.
But when it comes to the most delicious, the double-flavored slug is definitely not on the list. It was autumn, and I went to Dongtou Island under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou on business. It is an island county more than 30 nautical miles from the mainland. In addition to traveling, the residents of the island only go fishing in the sea. Because of work, I also went out to sea with the boatman Lin, went out early and returned late, and experienced the life of fishermen. Because of offshore activities, I didn't catch fish and seafood such as yellow croaker hairtail, but I was lucky to have dozens of pounds of crickets.
It was already dark when we went ashore at night. Boss Lin and his son set up a bonfire directly on the beach, scooped up seawater with a washbasin and cooked the crickets directly. After cooking for a short time, no matter whether it is raw or cooked, everyone thinks that the chef has fished it out and lived a hard life.
At that time, the season was the fat season of ephemera. It was delicious to catch and eat. So although there is no oil, salt or cooking, I swear this is definitely the most delicious meal I have ever eaten.
While eating, I said enviously to boss Lin, "I really envy you people who live by the sea and can eat such great seafood every day." He smiled and said, "We depend on the sea to eat the sea, so we figured everything out. You city dwellers earn ten dollars and spend two dollars, and we earn ten dollars and spend twelve dollars-who knows when we will not come back from the sea? We should not scrimp and save, but should eat, drink and be happy. " After that, I took another sip of wine, and the laughter faded away and gradually disappeared in the rushing waves.
Now, after many years, the Dongtou Cross-sea Bridge has been opened to traffic, and there is a highway in and out, so there is no need to ferry by boat anymore. Presumably, the boatman Lin also changed careers because of the gradual shortage of seafood. However, I am still infatuated with Wenzhou Mayflies. I have never seen the taste and cooking of local blue crabs, and the fresh, sweet and profound life attitude of local people who like seafood.