Monopterus albus is a yellow-brown fish, so it is called Monopterus albus. The body is like a snake, so it has another name: snake fish.
Monopterus albus has high nutritional value, such as nourishing blood and benefiting qi, nourishing liver and tonifying kidney. There are many ways to eat, such as frying, boiling, braising in soy sauce and stewing soup.
There is a more primitive way to eat it: remove the "gurgling sound" on the surface of Monopterus albus, cut it into pieces, burn it in boiling water, pick it up, put it in ice water to "supercool", and then put it on a plate with ice cubes and order some sauce. This way of eating is called "Iced Monopterus albus".
Monopterus albus is tight and delicate because of heat expansion and cold contraction, and its umami flavor is finally locked in ice, which is crisp, sweet and delicious.
But I think the most fascinating way to eat eel is eel clay pot rice. It is Taishan people who have reached the peak of eel clay pot rice.
Taishan is rich in Monopterus albus, and it is the first time to cook Monopterus albus and Taishan rice in the same pot. The unique climate and geographical conditions have created the delicious rice of Monopterus albus clay pot, which has spread to the United States, Canada and other places with Taishan people living abroad, and has been selected as "Guangdong traditional snacks", which is the symbolic food of Taishan. When you come here, you must not miss it.
Taishan eel rice has its own characteristics, but it must be cooked in a clay pot according to tradition. The eel is processed, sliced or shredded by hand, fried until fragrant, and finally cooked with Taishan fried rice shreds, served with chopped green onion and coriander.
Wait a few minutes, lift the lid and scoop it up. The rice is very spicy, and the shredded eel is very tender. Rice has fully absorbed the umami flavor, and you can eat several bowls without vegetables.
Eating eel rice in Taishan, I like to go to Ning Gang Goose City in Taicheng (one of the shooting places of Let the Bullets Fly). There are many local restaurants and eel rice is quite authentic.
"Let the Bullets Fly" stills, voiceover: Brothers, let's go to the city to eat Taishan eel rice!
Of course, among all the shops, if you want to eat the most classic Taishan eel rice, there is an authentic old shop that you must go to.
Spiced goose is a famous dish in Taishan. Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, with five flavors, it has an endless aftertaste after eating. Mount Tai is unique and rarely eaten anywhere else. Come here and have a try.
But the most authentic five-flavored goose can't be eaten in restaurants or hotels. If you want to eat delicious food, you must go to Taishan, Wencun and Haiyan villages, find a family and eat the "taste of home". The five-flavored goose cooked by the hostess will definitely make you full of praise.
Taishan people kill chickens and geese on holidays and indulge in this way year after year. The so-called five-flavored goose is the best among experts among the people, and of course it is hidden in the hands of mothers in every village.
There is a village in Haiyan Town, Taishan, near Pengdao Sea. There is an old man in the village who likes playing chess very much. He and I have forgotten each other. One year I went to his house and played chess with him all night. Both of them fainted, and we shook hands in the last game. He got up with a smile and went to the kitchen to make a pot of mud porridge for breakfast.
He asked the excavator to dig out the mud worms in advance, wash them and put them in the refrigerator. He knows I like it, so he cooks it for me. That pot of porridge tastes really sweet and is delicious all over the world. This is all the fun of life.