Additionally:
Guangdong New Language:
White clams are born in the fog. Every year, spring warmth, white fog in the air, the Mengmeng equipment, the natives know as white clams fall also, the name of the fall clams
day. White clams of the fog of the crumbs, fog white said the south fog, the fog of the south wind. White clams to the spring fog and birth, to the winter south wind and ripe,
are suitable for warmth, if the day is cold is thin.
"Guangdong Tongzhi" also said:
Panyu sea in the white clam ponds, from the Lion Tower to the mouth of the Xijiang River, where more than two hundred miles, are produced white clams. In February and March, the south wind
rises, the fog covers the sky, there are always white clams flying down, fine as dust. The clams are often found in the fields and die, but they are born in the sea by the power of the salty tide.
The clams are long in autumn and fat in winter, and they accumulate to several feet before they are taken out of the sea.
There are three kinds of clams: white clams born in the sea, yellow clams born in the sand, and black clams born in the river mud. The yellow clams are
the "Fazai Daji", also known as yellow sand clams, which are sold during the Chinese New Year. Black clams are the cheapest. The best-tasting ones are white clams, which are called white clams because their
shells are thin and self. Even the shell is fried in oil with a little chili sauce, and tastes very fresh.
The clams look like small clams, and like the hairy crickets that the people of Ningbo love to eat, but while hairy crickets have high and low corrugated patterns on their shells,
clams have flat, round and smooth shells. Clams are found all over Hong Kong's seashore. Once upon a time, when the Kowloon City waterfront had not been expanded into an airport, there
was a very shallow mud beach, from the foot of the main platform of the Song has been extended to the sea, when the evening tide is out, the children of the neighboring families
always like to barefoot to the mud beach to touch the clams.
Clams are poor people's food, so you can't eat them in restaurants. Seaside dwellers and water dwellers almost consider
clams as their main meat, as they sometimes cannot afford to eat even small fish.
I think the reason why fishermen believe that clams are caught in the fog in spring is that the fog, which is humid and warm, is good for the growth of many organisms in spring, and clams can easily reproduce when there is fog. There is a proverb in the Guangdong countryside that says "hungry snails are full of clams", which means that if there are many snails in the sea
and the river, it will be a bad year, and if there are many ships, the harvest will be good. It can be seen that if this year's spring fog, not only the white clams will proliferate
, that is, crops and other things will also be propagated.
The clams are also divided into salt and fresh water. They also, like oysters, have certain centralized breeding sites called clam ponds. Once upon a time, landowners in the eastern part of the country regarded the clam ponds along the seashore and the riverside as one of their properties, and every year they paid a high price for the clams to be taken for profit.
The season of clams, in addition to peeling the clam meat for food, because of the low price, the Guangdong countryside people also use it to feed ducks and
fertilizer for sugar cane fields.
At the end of autumn and winter, there is a kind of wild duck on the seashore, which feeds exclusively on clams, and is so fat that it is called a clam-duck.
In addition to white clams and yellow sand clams, there is also a famous type of clams in the Guangdong sea, known as gold hinged clams, also known as gold mouth clams.
It is said that in the Southern Han Dynasty, it was once classified as imperial food by Liu Keqiang and forbidden to be collected by the people. There is also a kind of earless clams, out of Weichong, is related to
the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the young emperor. According to legend, Lu Xiu Fu came to Weichong with the last emperor, the local fishermen into the clams, Dichang food and beauty
said: "pity not to make it without ears". So the clams produced in Weichong have been earless ever since. Later, the fisherman into the ship was appointed official,
After his death, he was worshiped in the temple of Liang Gong, the master craftsman, known as the clams Joe cloud. This is a legend, may not be reliable. Because the last is
later Lu Xiu Fu negative on the back in the Yaimen together with the sea that little emperor, he is just a baby clothes, may not know
eat clams. Because of this Southern Song emperor had been in exile in Lantau Island, Kowloon and the coastal area of Guangdong, so these places
about his legend is particularly many.
Guangdong also produces a kind of shells larger than clams, locally known as Bug Lei, which are said to be born when they smell thunder, so they are
called Bug Lei. （Like clams and oysters, they can be "planted". The seaside area where they are grown is called Bantian,
and the area around Panyu has the most of them. （
Panyu area is the most fertile in the winter, picking (bug thunder) people in the mud with their feet to the mud, encounter
there (bug thunder) to pick up, so-called kick (bug thunder).
The Cantonese people like to eat bats first (insect Lei) meat out, with other ingredients pecked together, and then brewed into the (insect
Lei) shell, steamed to eat, known as brewing (insect Lei). This is a local food and is said to be the most famous in Xinhui. In the past, there was a small food store in Hong Kong
that had special home-style stuffed (bug thunder) for sale. In addition to the "bugle", clams can also be prepared in this way to make stuffed clams.
Arkshells, which are similar to clams, are prized by Ningbo people, but rarely eaten by Cantonese people. Recently, the arkshells sold in Hong Kong-Shanghai stores are called Ningbo arkshells, but in fact, they are imported from Chaoshan, so the price is not expensive. The arkshells are eaten raw in boiling
water. I don't know why, but Cantonese diners can eat sashimi, but they are not interested in the blood-soaked arkshells.
In fact, there are arkshell fields around Huichao, producing a lot of arkshells, which were known as day sliced meat in the old days, because they can be eaten raw without cooking, and the flavor
is very sweet, so they are called arkshells. It can be seen that some places in Guangdong also like to eat arkshells.
Clams and other things, in the coastal area of the place and cheap, but the flavor is delicious, can be said to be the poor people's mouth. But in the old days
there were people who could not afford to eat such cheap things. Guangdong once upon a time, the famous "Qing official" He Jing has a joke, according to
that he dismissed the countryside, the door in front of the sale of molt through the occasional food clams, but explore the bag of money, Mrs. taunted, said, why not book
"Qing" word for sale, He laughed and stopped. The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and it was a very good one.