Bonito, also called chai fish or bomb fish, belongs to the family Carambola. Bonito is widely distributed in the warm zone of the world, and belongs to pelagic carnivorous migratory fish. It likes to cluster in the waters where cold and warm water masses meet, and usually feeds on small fish such as sardines.
It is mentioned above that bonito belongs to the family Ceratopogonidae, so their body mechanisms are very similar. For example, they have to keep swimming at high speed in the water, otherwise they will suffocate and die. I think it may be because they keep moving that the meat is so tight and delicious. ....
Bonito is very smart. In order to protect itself from being preyed by tuna, it will choose to be attached to huge marine animals such as whale sharks and baleen whales. The advantage of this is that bonito will help whale sharks eat the big fish in the fish school, so that whale sharks can swallow a lot of small fish, which is mutually beneficial.
Fish attached to whale sharks ↓
Another interesting thing is that all the bonito we catch will have such black stripes on their bellies, but not when they are in the water. Why?
In fact, these black vertical stripes were produced after the death of bonito; But when caught and struggling, it will slowly show black horizontal stripes (the scene can be said to be very embarrassing).
Normal ↓
After death ↓
The soul of bonito lies in the moment when it is made into Muyu flower after death. It is dried, mildewed and aired, and then sliced with the tool of cutting wood and sprinkled on rice or octopus balls, many times!
Bonito is called wooden fish, and firewood fish is not without reason, because it is really! Yes! Very! Hard! Sun-dried bonito is really comparable to wood, even worse. Take a chestnut and pickle the sun-dried bonito. You can't even cut it with a kitchen knife. You have to use a saw to saw it bit by bit. What's even more amazing is that some people make bonito into a knife! I'm not talking nonsense, because the pickled bonito has been certified as the world's hardest by Guinness World Organization.
Fish knife ↓
Insert a cold knowledge. In fact, bonito was unpopular in the Edogawa era, but because the Japanese pronunciation of bonito was homophonic with the word "victory" and "bonito Festival" was homophonic with "winning the male warrior", bonito was gradually accepted by the samurai class in the Kamakura and Muromachi eras. In the Warring States period, the festival was paid attention to, and it was gradually accepted by people because of its rich nutrition, convenient carrying and self-defense at critical moments.
This story tells us how important it is to choose a good name!