Today, I'm going to take stock of six' top ingredients' in China. They are all local tyrants, and most people can only watch from a distance. Some ingredients even sell at sky-high prices, which really limits my imagination. Many times, these very rare ingredients have become a status symbol. Regardless of their nutritional value, the price alone is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Let's see how many you know.
The first species: yellow-lipped fish
You can tell by the name that this is a yellow-lipped fish. This kind of fish is very rare. In fact, it is not this kind of fish that is expensive, but the swim bladder in the fish belly. The swim bladder of yellow-lipped fish is rare, and it is also rare in the market. Now the number of yellow-lipped fish has dropped sharply. In order to prevent yellow-lipped fish from becoming an endangered species, the state stipulates that fishing yellow-lipped fish is prohibited.
The second kind: mullet roe
The nutritional value of mullet roe is very high, and just to taste this delicious food is even more tempting to spend a lot of money. It is made from the ovary of a female mullet. Is it true that mullet itself is not expensive, but processing mullet roe makes its value soar and become a scarce luxury?
The third kind: Yadong salmon.
Yadong salmon is a unique fish in Yadong and a second-class wild protected animal. This kind of fish is very delicious, and its nutritional value is also very high. It is called "vascular scavenger". This kind of fish requires extremely high growth environment and needs to breed in unpolluted water. Now this kind of fish is decreasing day by day and has become a very rare food.
The fourth species: China wood frog.
China wood frog is a very precious food, which mainly grows in the cold area of Heijiliao. China wood frogs hibernate for five months a year. Now the global temperature is getting warmer, and the number of forest frogs in China is gradually decreasing. So now there are farmed China Rana, but generally speaking, the wild China Rana is the most nourishing, and a catty of China Rana can reach 10,000 yuan when it is expensive.
The fifth kind: Tibetan fragrant pig
Tibetan fragrant pig is a kind of pig that lives in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is short and covered with black hair. It usually eats plateau wild vegetables and weeds and is in a free-range state. This kind of pork is particularly fragrant, tender and delicious, but it is also expensive. Now even ordinary pork is very expensive, not to mention the price of this kind of pork is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Sixth species: Yangtze saury
The Yangtze river swordfish is named after living in the Yangtze River valley. Yangtze river swordfish used to be very common, but now it is very rare to eat a Yangtze river swordfish. Yangtze river swordfish is delicious in meat and tender in taste. Due to the over-exploitation of human beings, the Yangtze river swordfish is becoming less and less, and what people can eat is generally cultured, while the real wild Yangtze river swordfish costs several thousand yuan a catty, which is also very expensive.