The method of raising crispy Anhui carp is to raise grass carp first, then place it in reservoirs, ponds and other waters with good water quality and high oxygen content, and mainly feed them broad beans. , and grass carp that eat broad beans for a long time, their meat will become very crispy and will not become rotten after being cooked for a long time, hence the name "crispy Wanyu".

But if someone who doesn’t understand crispy Anhui fish cooks it like ordinary grass carp, the result will be that it will not rotten after being cooked for a long time, and it will also be very difficult to chew. I have seen some netizens commenting on it as "plastic fish". It feels like eating plastic: it cannot be cooked and cannot be chewed. However, this is the unique feature of crispy Anhui fish.

Crispy Anhui carp is grass carp that grows up in a special breeding environment and is fed broad beans. Therefore, the crispy Anhui carp is not a new fish species. From a biological point of view, it belongs to grass carp and only grows through specific feeding methods.

The breeding history of crispy grass carp

Zhongshan has a long history of developing crispy grass carp breeding. As early as 1973, Zhongshan people successfully cultivated crispy grass carp using cement tanks and circulating water breeding methods in the Yangtze River Reservoir. A kind of grass carp with firm and crisp meat, resistant to cooking, and fragrant and delicious meat was created, which was later called crispy grass carp. In the early 1980s, Dongsheng Town took the lead in using ponds to trial-raise crispy carp in Zhongshan. After more than 20 years of exploration, practice and accumulation, it has mastered a mature breeding technology, and the yield per mu has increased from 750 kilograms in the past to 1,710 kilograms.

In March 2006, the "Dongsheng Town Crispy Pork Grass Carp High Yield and Efficiency Enhancement Technology Demonstration" project was appraised by the Guangdong Provincial authoritative agency and the project overall reached the leading level of its kind in China. In 2007, the first Zhongshan City Crispy Pork Food Festival was successfully held, which not only made Dongsheng Town, known as the "Hometown of Chinese Crispy Pork", famous at home and abroad, but also made Dongsheng Town's "Dongyu Brand" Crispy Pork a hot spot pursued by many gourmets.