Chaoshan is adjacent to the sea in the east, and is rich in seafood, including yellow croaker, hairtail, snapper, cuttlefish, tuna, mackerel, red fish, grouper, Penaeus monodon, sea cucumber, turtle, hawksbill, seashell, seaweed, oyster, pearl oyster, crab, kelp and laver. Therefore, Chaoshan food customs are not good at cooking. "Natural History" contains: "Southeastern people eat products ... people who eat products think that turtles, clams, snails are rare, but they are not ashamed." Let me give you a brief introduction.

First, raw fish

Eating raw fish is eating sashimi "Notes of South Vietnam" records that "Guangdong customs like raw fish, with perch as fish, white grass as fish, yellow croaker as mackerel and snow age as pomfret. The pomfret is topped by the white pomfret. The first splash of water, in addition to the sword, wash blood and fine bones, red skin and white skin, light to fry, as thin as cicada wings. Comparatively speaking, Wo uses the old mash, while the pepper juice is ice-melted and extremely sweet. And Kun and Meiyou Jiayu. "The custom of eating raw fish is still quite popular. After autumn, grass carp is particularly fat, the weather is cooler, and the fish is not easy to deteriorate. Fish eaten raw are generally not kept in mud ponds, but in sand ponds, each weighing about 3 kg is the most suitable. I bought fish in the morning and raised them in clear water. In the afternoon, I scale the fish, gut it, gut it, peel off a layer of fish skin, then remove the meat on the left and right sides along the spine, and cut off the ribs and fish belly. Then dry the blood with a clean cloth and put the fish in a ventilated place. At night, the fish is blown by the north wind, and it is cut into thin slices as thin as cicada wings with a knife.

Eating raw fish should not only pay great attention to the hygiene of utensils, but also need complete seasonings. There are two kinds of condiments, sweet and salty: the sweet ones are Sanwei sauce and plum sauce; Salty sesame oil mixed with bean paste. Another dish is raw shredded radish or carambola slices. From fish fillets to condiments, they are all good in color, flavor and shape. When eating, hold the raw fish with chopsticks and dip it in seasoning. It tastes very fresh and sweet. Eat raw fish and serve steaming fish head soup. After drinking fish head soup, eat a bowl of light fish porridge.

Second, crustacean seafood.

Liu Yao's "Record of Ridge Face" records: "Water crabs have salty claws and each has a salty taste. They are widely used, boiled slightly and drunk with their salty juice. There is mud in the crab shell with yellow mud, such as yellow crisp. If you peel it off, it will taste good. Red crab has yellow and red paste in its mother shell, such as the yolk of chicken and duck. The inside is as white as gypsum, and it is solid in its shell. Sprinkle with five flavors and cover with fine flour, which is beautiful and beautiful for crabs. " It can be seen that the water crab was already a treasure at that time. Hipsters love crabs, and cream crabs, river crabs, blue crabs and swimming crabs are all delicious dishes. In addition to steaming, there are vinegar crab powder, raw fried hibiscus crab, money crab, golden carp crab, grilled crab tower, steamed cream crab, pomegranate crab, scalded mandarin duck cream crab and so on. They are all famous Chaozhou dishes.

Meretrix meretrix is a crustacean seafood that Chaoshan people especially like. Outsiders often marvel that Chaoshan people eat cockroaches. Hipsters eat clams, wash them, put them in half-opened water, scald them for a while, and then fish them up to eat. At this time, when you open the clam's shell, you can see that the meat is tender and bloodshot. If it is overcooked, the blood will dry up, and the meat will become reddish brown and dull, tender and crisp, and the umami taste will be greatly reduced.

There is another interesting way to eat clams: take a new tile, put it on a charcoal stove and bake it on the tile. You can have a taste after a while. Tastes better.

Meretrix meretrix is divided into pearl clam, meretrix meretrix, silk clam and mud clam, among which pearl clam is the best and mud clam is the most common. People in Chaoshan have a long history of raising cockroaches. Every year from the autumnal equinox to beginning of winter, they go to the sea to explore cockroaches, wash them out and eat them after breeding for two years.

Sunmoon shells grow in the depths of the South China Sea. They are round and flat. The two shells are as smooth as mirrors, one is dark red and the other is white, so they are commonly known as "Sun and Moon", also known as "sea mirror" and "luxury dish". Its meat is like a clam embryo, and there is a little red crab in its abdomen, tied with filaments. Covered with feet, the size is like beans, and the body is as soft as cotton. When the shellfish are hungry, the second shell is opened, and the little crab goes out to look for food. When the crab is full, it will return to the abdomen, and the sun, moon and shellfish are full. If the crab is in danger when going out for food, the rope is broken, the crab can't come back, and the shellfish can't live.

According to folklore, the shell of the sun and moon is the essence of the sun and moon, and it is the product of Angri Xing Jun and the goddess Chang 'e. Once, the Queen Mother went to celebrate her birthday at Christmas, and the two immortals happened to walk together. The two fell in love at first sight and fell in love with each other, so they ignored the strict fairy rules and stole the forbidden fruit. Soon, Chang 'e became pregnant and gave birth to something that looked like a round mirror and contained patties. In order to avoid the Queen Mother's discovery, she secretly threw her newborn things into the South China Sea. Just then, a monk and a crab came out to look for food. Seeing this scene, he felt infinite sympathy and accompanied him all day looking for food. Every time when looking for food, Xiao Riyuebei is often afraid that the little crab will not come back, and the little crab will spit out a filament to hug it.