Eating shrimp in Shanwei
People who have been to Shanwei will eat meat-flavored shrimp. Or fried, steamed, or eaten raw, a variety of ways to eat, each with its own flavor. There is only one way to eat. Inland people are afraid to ask, and Shanwei people eat with relish regardless of sex, age and age. Is to marinate the live shrimp just caught from the sea for a day or two, and then bring it here to eat. Shanwei people like to send this salty shrimp to sweet potato porridge. It tastes delicious and just right.
In the past, poor families only ate like this, and rich people disdained it. Before the reform and opening up, salted shrimp could not be elegant. Since the reform, people's living standards have improved, and people have a new pursuit of diet. Salted shrimp, salted shrimp, salted crab, salted fish, pickles, etc. It belongs to the elegant seating of coastal restaurants and is a dish that the rich deliberately enjoy. To this end, there are salted shrimps in a boathouse, restaurant and hotel in Shanwei City. Even at a grand banquet, guests will still want a dish of salted shrimp and a bowl or two of sweet potato porridge after getting drunk and tired of eating food. Otherwise, you will be disappointed and deeply feel the fly in the ointment.
According to the legend of Shanwei people, the ancestors of squid have made great contributions in history. According to legend, Yuan soldiers invaded the south on a large scale at the end of the Song Dynasty, and Song Duanzong fled to Jiazi Port in Hailufeng under the escort of general Lu Xiufu, and Yuan soldiers pursued him. In front of us is the surging Pacific Ocean, and there is no ferry crossing the sea. Song Duanzong sighed in the sky: "Heaven is unique to me. Whoever can rescue the driver is to give up the throne. " The voice just fell and the sea was calm. I saw a shrimp king on the sea, leading hundreds of shrimps, swimming to the shore, looking at Song Duanzong and bowing. After a while, it became a hundred fishing boats of different sizes, carrying officials of the Song Dynasty and crossing the sea safely. When Yuan Bing caught up with them, they had reached the other side. The ministers of the Song Dynasty were about to leave when the Squid King suddenly said, "Long live the opening ceremony, haven't you sealed it yet?" Song Duan Zongfang remembered his wish, so he took off his hat and threw it into the sea. From then on, Gu Xia's head looked very beautiful, just like wearing an emperor's hat. Up to now, there are still memorial tombstones on the bold mountain in Jiazigang.
The scientific name of this shrimp is Guanxia, also known as Qin Xia. Shrimp's crab feet are centipede-shaped and have two pairs of antennae. The first pair is long sickle-shaped, with light gray body and red tail. The big one is a foot long and the small one is two or three inches long. It is produced in shallow sand bottom and can be fished all year round. Spring is a rich season. At this time, the shrimp is fat and tender, and the meat contains an egg yolk, which is called "red shrimp" and is the best to eat. Squid contains high protein and vitamins, and its nutritional value is extremely high. Has the effects of strengthening yang, tonifying kidney, promoting blood circulation and promoting fluid production. If you eat salted shrimp, the effect is better. People who haven't eaten shrimp skin don't know how to eat it, and their fingers may be pricked and bleed. Shanwei people have a way of eating, called "massage first, then undress, with both hands at the same time." After picking it up, rub it with your fingers all over your body, then press the sides with your hands and peel off the hard shell to eat.
Talking about Shanwei Snacks Cuike
There are snacks everywhere. There are many ways to eat, each with its own local characteristics. Snacks in Shanwei, a small coastal city, have long been famous. Throughout the year, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, every noon, all kinds of food shop stalls are all over the streets; Snacks of various flavors are on the market. Sweet, salty, sour, spicy, all kinds of tastes, mouth watering; Steamed, fried, fried, fried, fragrant, appetizing. Apart from noodles, vermicelli, dumplings and jiaozi which are common in other markets, the most local features are all kinds of vegetables, such as fat sausage, heavy cake, vegetable head, potato flour, stir-fry, stir-fry, stir-fry, copper roll, stir-fry, steamed vegetables, steamed vegetables, steamed vegetables and steamed vegetables. These vegetable trees are covered with rice flour, and stuffed with peanuts, shrimps, shredded lean meat, shredded squid, spices and vegetables. After steaming, fry it when eating. They are crisp and tough, and delicious. Or directly mix the rice slurry with shrimps, diced meat and vegetables. Steam one layer, put another layer, and steam overlapping. This is called heavy (stacked) cake. When eating, cut into pieces, supplemented by raw oil ingredients, hot, tender, smooth and sweet, very delicious. As for fried rye cabbage head pills, rice paste is mixed with shredded radish, onion or garlic, shrimp and shredded squid. When customers come, they fill them with iron screens, fry them in an oil pan and sell them while frying. Dipped in soy sauce vinegar, it tastes crisp, sweet and sour, with endless aftertaste and very appetizing. These lychees are attractive to customers because of their exquisite workmanship, exquisite ingredients, delicious and cheap, and various varieties.
Shanwei has a long history of eating vegetables, and it is lively at noon. A long time ago, Shanwei was a beach. Fishermen went fishing from Fujian, Chaoshan and Hong Kong, passed through here, or went ashore to rest, or dried nets to sell fish, and gradually settled down, gradually forming a port city. Many fishermen can't go home for dinner in time at noon, so they buy some snacks at the port market. This paradox with local characteristics is thus produced. However, before the reform and opening up, only fishermen went ashore, or villagers went to the market, or relatives and friends came to visit their homes, or they didn't have time to go home for lunch, so people would go to the market to buy some vegetables to eat at home. Now with the improvement of life, people pay attention to work and rest, and generally do not spend time cooking, which has gradually become a habit.
Eating "thunder tea" in Shanwei
Since the summer, it has become fashionable to eat tea in the towns and villages of Shanwei City. Whenever relatives and friends visit, the hospitable farmers in Hailufeng immediately start making tea-smashing tea to entertain guests, which makes them feel very cordial.
Leicha, also called salty tea. There are not many places to eat Leicha in rural China, only Shanwei City and Jiexi County in Guangdong Province, and some areas in Guangxi, Jiangxi and Xiangxi have this custom. When eating tea, first put green tea leaves, cooked peanuts and sesame seeds into a bowl (a special pottery bowl with teeth on the inner wall), use a hammer made of pomegranate wood, stir and pound it back and forth into a thin powder paste, add a little Qiang salt, and then pour boiling water into it to make tea. In Haifeng county and coastal towns, processed celery, onion, garlic, shrimp skin and shredded squid will be added when eating tea, which tastes excellent and stimulates appetite. Rural areas in Liuhe and Jiexi like to stir-fry rice flowers with a dish of pickled garlic or buckwheat, which is crisp and refreshing and has a unique flavor. In Gongping Town, Haifeng County, the hometown of Zhong Jingwen, a famous folk writer, people used to soak the freshly cooked rice with salty tea and add various coriander ingredients. They are called "rice tea" and can be used as snacks to quench thirst and satisfy hunger.
The custom of drinking tea has existed since ancient times. In the Qing Dynasty, Ru Dunhe recorded in his Poem of Reading Words: "There are pieces of tea between Jiangguang, which are made by frying tea with Qiang salt, which has ancient meaning." Haifeng Afandihuang, a well-known juror in Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "When Haifeng came, salty tea was still available, and the tooth bowl came to a family. Where can I see kindness?" Look how many sesame seeds she has. "
Drinking tea in midsummer can relieve summer heat, quench thirst, promote fluid production and moisten the lungs, refresh the mind and eliminate fatigue. Drinking tea in cold winter can promote metabolism, relieve cold and keep warm.
Unique Sheng Di Shui Xie Tang
Shanwei people invited guests, and the first dish they ordered was "Sheng Di Shuixie Soup". According to the banquet of Cantonese cuisine, the first course is soup. There is a pot of blood-black soup in the white porcelain basin, and several red crab feet are exposed on the soup, which is unique and unique. When everyone scoops soup, the bottom of the basin will show a few pieces of raw land.
After drinking a mouthful of soup, you will feel bitter before sweet, salty before fragrant, and suddenly feel thirsty. Because the raw land is cold, sweet and bitter, clearing away heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and promoting spring, it can cure yin deficiency and internal heat, insomnia due to fatigue, damp-heat rash, thirst and dry mouth. Add a few slices of Rehmannia glutinosa and water crab to cook together, which can not only eat seafood, but also relieve dryness and heat. It is said to be the secret of baldness and white hair.
The most affectionate thing about eating raw crab soup is to pull a big thorn, bite off the joints with your teeth, and suck the meat in the shell into your mouth together with the soup, which is memorable.