Three meals a day, people in this field eat porridge in the morning and evening, and dry rice at noon; "Qihai" people eat porridge in the morning and eat it in the middle and evening. Cooking at noon, commonly known as "cooking", eating pickles in the morning and evening. Coastal residents usually like to season vegetables with seafood such as mud flies (namely clams). "Qihai" people like to eat "salty tea" (that is, salty tea), and they don't eat salt soup for three days, and their ankles are crisp and swaying. The salty side dishes of coastal residents include crab dregs, moth sauce, clam sauce and so on. I also like to eat raw seafood, such as choking crabs, shrimps, moths, scorpions and drunken snails. Seafood is also famous for its unique flavor. Such as "Tonghua brand" laver, decapitated shrimp, crab meat hot sauce, shrimp hot oil and "Yinghai brand" shrimp oil. Among them, many products not only meet local demand, but also are exported to foreign countries. Not to mention the famous "freshest" clam in the world.
If Rudong invites guests to hold banquets, they are usually named after the tea served, such as shark fin seats, fish skin seats and sea cucumber seats. In the area of Camellia oleifera, "white stewed taro" is often regarded as the first dish, and is called "the first taro". Its soup is milky white, tender as jade, and good in color, smell and taste.
Rudong produces more than 50 kinds of seafood, and seafood is absolutely indispensable at banquets. Every day at high tide, fish, shrimp and aquatic products from the county town are crowded with the markets of Raven Garden Lake, Yandun Bridge and Wangpeng Village, and even the air is filled with delicious smell, just like a "city of fresh flavor". The famous ballad "Fresh Children in December" tells the beauty:
Wan Li is covered with the Yellow Sea and seawater.
My family lives in the Yellow Sea.
Twelve months of the year,
A fish is fresh every month.
In the first month, dragons and fish come to report good news.
In February, saury was at that time.
Yellow croaker went on sale in March,
It's up to you to braise in soy sauce.
April giant fish's big eyes,
May mackerel is at home,
In June, a fish is fat and big.
Old wine makes music. Ha ha.
Eight boards and nine arrows in July,
In October, mullets count their steel heads,
November hairtail is as white as silver,
/kloc-The bass in October/February is the most famous.
Open the net if you want to eat fresh fish.
Want to eat dragon meat? Go to the sea.
Fishermen are more ambitious than the sea.
The treasure will be recovered.
Rudong people are closely related to seafood and also have tea. Rudong area has the custom of "washing three" since ancient times, that is, three days after the baby is born, it is necessary to take a bath with warm water. The first step is to make tea and wash your hair with water. It is said that after washing your hair with tea, your scalp will turn blue (a sign of health) and it is not easy to produce dandruff. There is also the effect of "calming the liver and reducing fire and calming the temperament". In adulthood, if a girl "eats tea", it means "engagement"; On the wedding night, the tea that the bride and groom drink is called "strong tea". In the past, during the Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival, people would take Lord Huang Cheng to the street to invite people to drink tea, which was called "offering tea". Because Rudong is located at the seaside, well water and river water are salty, and falling into the water (rain) has become the top grade for making tea for guests. Tianshui tastes light. Drinking Tianshui tea in Rudong, a place where there are no famous springs, waterfalls, rivers and waters, is sweet and refreshing and has a unique flavor.