Monopterus albus is a yellow-brown fish, so it is called Monopterus albus. The body is like a snake, so it has another name: snake fish.
Monopterus albus has high nutritional value, such as nourishing blood and qi, nourishing liver and tonifying kidney. It can be eaten in many ways, such as frying, boiling, braising in soy sauce and stewing soup.
There is a more primitive way to eat it: remove the "gurgling sound" on the surface of Monopterus albus, cut it into pieces, burn it in boiling water, fish it up, put it in ice water to "supercool the river", then put it on a plate filled with ice cubes and order some sauce. This way of eating is called "Iced Monopterus albus".
Due to the expansion of heat and contraction of cold, the meat quality of Monopterus albus is tight and tender, and the umami taste is finally locked in the ice, making it crisp, sweet and delicious.
But I think the most fascinating way to eat eel is eel clay pot rice. It was Taishan people who reached the peak of eel clay pot rice.
Taishan is rich in Monopterus albus, and it is the first time to cook Monopterus albus and Taishan rice in the same pot. The unique climate and geographical conditions created the delicious rice of Monopterus albus clay pot, which spread to the United States, Canada and other places with Taishan people's overseas life, and was selected as "Guangdong traditional snack", which is the symbolic food of Taishan. When you come here, don't miss it.
Taishan eel rice has its own characteristics, but it must be cooked in clay pot according to tradition. The eel is processed, sliced or shredded by hand, fried until fragrant, and finally cooked with Taishan fried rice shreds, served with chopped green onion and coriander.
Wait a few minutes, lift the lid and pick it up. Rice is spicy and shredded eel is delicious. Rice has fully absorbed the umami flavor, and you can eat several bowls without vegetables.
When eating eel rice in Taishan, I like to go to Ning Gang Goose City in Taicheng (one of the shooting places of Let the Bullets Fly). There are many local restaurants and eel rice is quite authentic.
"Let the Bullets Fly" stills, voiceover: Brothers, let's go to the city to eat Taishan eel rice!
Of course, among all the shops, if you want to eat the most classic Taishan Monopterus albus rice, there is an authentic old shop you must go to.
Spiced goose is a famous dish of Mount Tai. Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, with five flavors, it has an endless aftertaste after eating. Mount Tai is unique and rarely eaten in other places. Come and have a try.
But the most authentic five-flavored goose can't be eaten in restaurants or hotels. If you want to eat delicious food, you must go to Taishan, Wencun and Haiyan villages, find a family and eat "the taste of home". The spiced goose cooked by the hostess will definitely make you full of praise.
Taishan people kill chickens and geese every New Year and indulge in this way year after year. The so-called five-flavored goose, which is cooked best by folk experts, is of course hidden in the hands of mothers in every village.
There is a village in Haiyan Town, Taishan, near Pengdao Sea. There is an old man in the village who likes playing chess very much. He and I have forgotten each other. One year I went to his house and played chess with him all night. Both of them fainted, and we shook hands in the last game. He got up with a smile and went to the kitchen to make a pot of mud porridge for breakfast.
He asked the digger to dig the mud worms in advance, wash them and put them in the refrigerator. He knew I liked it, so he cooked it for me. That pot of porridge tastes delicious and is delicious all over the world. This is all the fun of life.