specialty

1. Smoked Salmon

Canada's first world-famous aquatic product is salmon, also known as salmon. Canada's specialty salmon can be bought in the fish cabinets of local shops, such as supermarkets such as Jinshan in Toronto, and winter is the off-season. There are various ways to smoke salmon. You can buy half a piece for your own use, and you can buy packaged sliced salmon if you give it away. Smoked products of shellfish and abalone and kelp are all worth recommending.

Canada has a long coastline and a lot of seafood, including cod, salmon, herring, mackerel, lobster, scallop, mackerel, pandalus borealis, etc. It's really dazzling and endless. Among many well-known seafood, salmon is a big name among deep-sea fish, and it can be called "the emperor of the ice sea". Salmon has a very touching story. Salmon that was born in the river and grew up in the sea must swim back to their birthplace when spawning. People don't know what kind of complex they have in their lives, but the spectacle of countless salmon struggling to return against the current is very shocking. The long journey has created the strong vitality of salmon.

there are many ways to eat salmon. Baked, fried, boiled, smoked or pickled, with different characteristics. Canadians like to eat smoked or pickled salmon raw, but because the Japanese way of eating has a strong mustard flavor, it is more balanced with the thick and heavy taste of salmon.

2. maple syrup

maple syrup is one of the most famous specialties in Canada. At present, 7% of maple syrup products in the world are concentrated in Quebec. This kind of juice collected from sugar maple over 4 years old is very precious, and only one liter of maple syrup can be extracted from 4 liters of maple syrup on average. Maple syrup tastes mellow and is a pure natural product. It is said that it can maintain beauty and lose weight, and it is very popular.

Because maple syrup is very popular, it is also a very popular activity to visit the maple syrup hut. Here, you can learn everything about maple syrup, and someone will explain the manufacturing process of maple syrup, taste authentic maple syrup products and traditional food, enjoy lively traditional music and dance performances, and take a horse-drawn carriage to visit the maple grove, which is an activity that is very integrated into local life and combines food with tourism.

A maple tree with a diameter of 25 cm usually only needs to drill a hole, which enables it to recuperate and recover. For many years, big maple trees can usually drill 3-4 holes, which are 5 cm deep into the white body of the trunk, and the sap flows along the conduit to the storage barrel. The temperature of boiling maple syrup is generally kept at 4 degrees Celsius above the boiling point of water. Collecting maple sap requires a suitable temperature. Every year, the maple sugar harvest season is within 4-6 weeks between February and April. Only when the temperature is below ℃ at night and above 5℃ during the day can maple sap be extracted.

Before and after 16, records of "Indian syrup" began. It was the Indians who first discovered maple sap and used the "indigenous method" to dig trenches and drill holes in the trunk of maple to collect maple sap. At that time, "Indian syrup" was the predecessor of today's "maple syrup" Maple sugar is rich in minerals and organic acids, and its calories are lower than those of sucrose, fructose and corn sugar, but its calcium, magnesium and organic acids are much higher than those of other sugars, which can supplement the weak constitution with unbalanced nutrition. The sweetness of maple sugar is not as high as honey, and the sugar content is about 66% (the sugar content of honey is about 79%-81%, and the sugar content is as high as 99.4%).

The most common maple syrup product is maple syrup. People like to eat pancakes dipped in syrup and French toast, and also like to pour syrup on ice cream, yogurt and milkshakes. Canadians also like to put maple sugar on the snow to eat together. It is cold and sweet, and it tastes soft. When eating, only snow and sugar slowly slide down their throats, which is very comfortable.

maple syrup can be divided into several kinds with different sugar content, and its uses are different: some are suitable for making hard candy and cream, some are suitable for direct consumption, and some are suitable for cooking. In fact, maple syrup has many uses in cooking, but it is not well known. Foie gras with maple syrup is a favorite food of experts. There are many maple syrup products, such as maple syrup butter, maple syrup jelly (it smells fragrant and is very suitable for baking bread, and it is better to add a little cheese), hard candy, granulated sugar, mustard sauce with maple syrup, maple syrup jam, cotton candy and so on.

There is a famous Canadian dish called "Fried Salmon with Maple Sugar": Salmon is marinated and fried with pepper and cinnamon powder, served with continuous mashed potatoes and shredded vegetables, and then drizzled with maple sugar. Protein, starch, vitamins and fiber are all available in a dish, and the unique tree fragrance of maple sugar is the lingering soul of this dish.

In supermarkets such as PRICE CHOPPER,LOBLAWS,Dominion, etc., you can buy maple syrup from SHADY MAPLE FARM Company of Canada NO.1 and other brands, about 4 Canadian dollars /25ml, as shown in the glass bottle below. Generally, a bottle of 5 ml maple syrup costs 8 to 9 Canadian dollars.

3. American ginseng

American ginseng in Canada is also a major specialty. Please pay attention to the laws of Hong Kong. The artificially cultivated American ginseng varieties also need to show the license issued by the exporting country before they can be imported. Guan Zhiyi, a Chinese medicine practitioner, said that wholesalers also need to hold certificates of origin or import certificates when purchasing American ginseng and imports, so they need an import license to bring American ginseng into Hong Kong, and pay attention to asking the merchants for it when purchasing.