When I grew up, I went to my grandmother's house in Kunshan and found small yellow croaker and peeled fish, which were cheap and delicious. Especially peeled fish, the peeled skin shines like a jack-o'-lantern at night. But the meat of peeled fish is really delicious, and there are no thorns, so it is convenient to eat.
Shad, the little daughter of the Dragon King in myths and legends. When I was about seven or eight years old, my uncle brought back a fish. It was ugly, but the scales were very thin. This kind of fish can be steamed directly without scraping scales, and each scale is a small oil star. Its meat is delicate and delicious. This is the shad that Zhang Henshui hates for its prickliness.
The shad is not only delicious and delicate, but also exudes a strange aroma throughout. Grandma said it was called rouge fragrance. According to legend, shad is the little daughter of the Dragon King. She doesn't like to stay at home, likes to go upstream along the Yangtze River, and has the temperament of a good family.
The shad is the most delicious before and after the Qingming Festival, and people will steam it whole. In the past, large families would pull off the scales of the shad one by one, then thread them into strings and steam them on the shad. This dish has a special name called Pearl Roll Jade Curtain. Slowly, in July, the bones and scales of shad became harder and harder. At this time, if you don't scrape the scales, you will become a layman.
When I was a child, saury was very cheap, and shad was more expensive than it. Now the shad is basically extinct, and the swordfish is tens of thousands of pounds. For me, saury really has nothing to eat. Now it just represents a symbol of luxury. When it comes to delicacy, it's really far from shad.
(This is a herring)
Now there are shad on the market, but many of them pass off American shad as shad. The smell of shad in memory will never come back. I also hope that the little daughter of the Dragon King will swim freely in the Yangtze River and will never be discovered by human beings.
Red snapper is the freshest in the sea. The first time I ate wild red snapper, it was not in China, nor in the four islands of Japan, but in South Korea. This treasure, which has been called the first fish in the sea by the Japanese for 1000 years, is really delicious to the extreme.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Japanese trawlers swam back and forth in the East China Sea to catch wild red snapper. At that time, red snapper was very scarce, but the fish resources such as large yellow croaker, peeled fish, small yellow croaker and hairtail were still very rich.
It was not until 1950s and 1960s that wild red snapper resources were completely exhausted, and Japanese talents began to catch large yellow croaker and sell several kinds of fish to China. Because they are used to the taste of red snapper in China, there is really no market for large yellow croaker.
As early as the Edo period in Japan, red snapper was regarded as "Japan No.1", which is the number one fish in the eyes of the Japanese. Wild red snapper has delicious meat, no fishy smell and sweet aftertaste, even if it is frozen and thawed, the taste will not be reduced.
The one I ate in Korea was wild, and it was really the same as the cultured red snapper. The cultured red snapper has heavy fishy smell, loose meat, rough taste and bitter taste. That fish really intoxicated me. I didn't expect it to be so delicious.
According to the local people, the red snapper, which weighed more than 10 kg a few years ago, has basically become extinct in recent years. This red snapper weighing nearly three pounds is already a big one. Moreover, not all species of red snapper are delicious, and some species are very unpalatable, so they are sold very cheaply no matter how big they grow. Moreover, even if it is delicious, the price of red snapper varies greatly throughout the year, so it is necessary to keep up with the season.
There are a thousand Hamlets in the minds of a thousand people, so there is no correct answer to this question at all. The only thing I can tell you is, don't let go of wild fish. With fewer and fewer resources in the ocean, maybe all fish will become luxury goods in the near future.
According to statistics, 80% of the world's fish resources have been exhausted. By 2048, the whole ocean will be hollowed out, which is really a pity.