There are generally three choices about how to eat seafood in Haikou.
The easiest thing is definitely to go directly to the Cantonese restaurant. There are Langham Hotel in Haikou, and Langham Hotel has Tang Ge Hotel. Tang Ge in Hongkong is a Michelin star, so this one in Haikou won't be too bad. Roasting Liaoshen and lobster with chopped green onion with truffles is the specialty of this store. That is, wallets are not allowed.
Secondly, go to the seafood stall. For example, there is a seafood square for ten thousand people on Coconut Sea Avenue, which is also very popular.
Then go directly to the seafood market and buy it back for the next store to process directly, which is the freshest and the most cost-saving. The freshness of seafood is the most important thing, but in the face of freshness, it is the simplest cooking method. This is the most authentic taste of the real thing.
This market is quite interesting. The first floor is a market, and the second floor is full of processed restaurants, some of which are like cooked food centers in Southeast Asia.
3 yuan for a sea urchin, but because of the epidemic, you can't make sashimi but steam eggs.
After buying, the store will help you cut off the spines of sea urchins so that you can take them upstairs to steam eggs.
The price of seafood is an abalone in 7 yuan, and an abalone in 7 yuan is already the largest abalone in the market. It looks quite big, bigger than the abalone in the braised pork in Four Seasons Jinsha.
The scallop (fresh shellfish) is one from 5 yuan, 8 yuan, which is also big. This is actually the advantage of going to the seafood market to buy your own seafood. You can pick anything big.
The processing fee of this shellfish is calculated by quantity. The bigger you buy, the more you earn.
Every 4 yuan of oysters is the big one, and the smaller one is only 1 yuan.
After buying shellfish, we began to whole fish, whole shrimp and whole crab.
Pipi shrimp is a little more expensive, one catty of 80 yuan, and one catty of cream 100. April-July is the best time for Pipi shrimp to eat, because some Pipi shrimps have a mushy taste. After cooking, there is a red paste in the body, and the mouth taste is very good, not inferior to the yellow of crabs.
Fish bought a pound of grouper, 25 yuan. If it's a tiger spot, it's even cheaper, 20 pounds. East Star Spot can't be found in the market.
There is no problem in buying grouper. This fish is easy to cook. Just steam it. The key is the temperature when steaming, which is related to whether the meat is tender or firewood.
And eels, 33 pounds. I happened to go to Box Horse a few days ago, and the eel of Box Horse was over 80 Jin. It's really fun to buy it at the seafood market buy buy.
Finally, I bought a vegetable. I don't know why the processing cost of vegetables exceeds the price of vegetables themselves. Luffa 7 yuan, processing fee 14 yuan.
After shopping, I went upstairs. There are about 10 seafood processing stalls upstairs. There will be a clear price tag for processing in the market, and the processing fee for all booths is the same. Don't worry too much about being cheated on the processing fee.
Moreover, the kitchen of each booth is made of glass, so you can clearly see the sanitary situation inside.
After buying seafood, just give it to the store.
Hainan people pay as much attention to dipping sauce as they do to food. They can make dipping sauce with different tastes according to different ingredients.
No matter in big hotels or small restaurants, we can always see delicious dishes neatly placed on separate tables. There are yellow light pepper, orange pepper, lantern Chili sauce, assorted sauce, garlic, soy sauce and vinegar.
It is said that you can make different sauces according to different dishes. I mixed it casually, but the food itself is good, and there are not many places to use sauce.
Abalone, oyster and scallop are all steamed into garlic, and shellfish's seafood charcoal+garlic is justice, with rich taste and distinct layers.
This is the advantage of buying seafood by yourself. Everyone chooses the fat and big ones.
Pipi shrimp is made into salt and pepper. Online celebrity's identity aside, Pipi shrimp is a very delicious food. Not to mention how fresh and tender the meat is, even the shrimp shells are crisp and fragrant after being fried, which makes people want to suck it clean.
The most suitable way for grouper is steaming, because grouper meat itself has a unique sweetness, tender meat and particularly delicious taste, and only steaming can best show its original flavor.
My favorite is this eel. Eel is tender, and its oil is mainly distributed in meat, more like pork belly. It tastes like a mixture of fat meat and lean meat, which is particularly refreshing.
Finally, steamed eggs with sea urchin. Originally, I planned to make sashimi, but later, because of the recent epidemic, merchants could only cook cooked food, so I changed it to steamed eggs with sea urchin.
Sea urchin is not actually a high-grade seafood. This steamed egg can be eaten with some delicious soy sauce. It's delicious.
If you go to Haikou, remember to take a walk at Banqiao Seafood Plaza.
By the way, there are actually some other cooked foods for sale here, such as Wenchang chicken and Lingao roast suckling pig. .....