One reason is that people in China love to eat. As long as you swim in the sea, run on the ground and fly in the air, you can become a famous dish on the table with our seasonings and cooking methods. Another important reason is that eating seafood is said to be aphrodisiac! In particular, mussels, an indescribable creature, are simply too attractive to China people who are superstitious about "eating what you eat" and "shaping by shape".
The owner of a seafood company in Washington said, "When you plan to cook a dish with mussels, you put it in boiling water, and the peeled mussels are like a three-foot condom.
Elephant mussel, scientific name Pacific submerged mussel, looks like a trunk, big and fleshy. It is one of the largest known bivalves that burrow in mud. The length of siphon of mussel (trunk, the most important edible part) can reach more than 1 m, and the heaviest mussel weighs 4 kg. In fact, ivory mussels were cute when they were young, but in order to survive, people found a bunker and plunged into it for decades or hundreds of years. The average life span of mussels is about 100 years old, and the oldest mussel found so far reaches 168 years old, which is undoubtedly one of the species with very long natural life span.
Abalone is a primitive marine mollusk, which belongs to monocoque mollusk. It has only half a shell, thick, flat and wide. Abalone is a traditional and precious food in China, ranking first among the four seafood flavors. Up to now, abalone often appears in many state banquets and large banquets held in the Great Hall of the People, and has become one of the classic state banquet dishes in China.