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 an aphrodisiac! In particular, a creature with an indescribable appearance, such as the mussel, is simply too attractive to China people who are superstitious about "eat what you eat" and "shape with shape".
The owner of a seafood company in Washington said, "When you plan to cook a dish with a mussel, you put it in boiling water, and the mussel with its skin removed is like a three-foot condom.
Elephant mussel, scientifically called Pacific Submerged Mudclam, looks like a trunk, big and fleshy. It is one of the largest bivalves known to make holes in mud. The length of the siphon (i.e. the trunk, which is also the most important edible part) of the mussel can reach more than 1 m, and the heaviest mussel weighs 4 kg. In fact, when I was a child, the elephant mussel was still very cute, but in order to survive, people found a bunker and plunged into it for decades or hundreds of years. The average life span of the mussel is about 100 years old, and the oldest mussel found so far has reached 168 years old, which is undoubtedly one of the species with very long natural life span.
Abalone is a primitive marine mollusk, belonging to a single-shell mollusk. It has only half a shell, which is thick, flat and wide. Abalone is a traditional rare food in China, ranking first among the four seafood flavors. So far, abalone has often appeared 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.