The yellow croaker is also known as the stonefish because it has two white stone-like bones in its head. Yellow croaker is found in China from the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea and the South China Sea. According to the late Qing Dynasty notebooks "Qingbi class copy", the first batch of yellow croaker in the beginning of spring was transported from Tianjin to Chongwenmen in Beiping, and then directly into the Imperial Household Cuisine. Only then can it be sold on the market. The old capital of Beiping, was invited to eat yellow croaker, is a very dignified, worthy of meeting people on the praise of things, like today, someone invited to eat non-short-term study tour Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs cluck.
The people of Beiping spring to eat yellowtail is a big day, as the saying goes, "please auntie home to eat yellowtail". The old custom of the flag people, married daughters in the mother's family has a high status, known as the "aunt". Women in the old days, the old and the young, they usually rarely let go to eat a good meal. Early spring yellow croaker season, please married daughter of the name back to eat a comfortable yellow croaker, is also a rare treatment of married women in that era.
In Beiping, "stewed yellow croaker with foreign accent", the practice is to fry the yellow croaker in a frying pan, put in a lot of garlic cloves, onion and ginger, soy sauce, and stew it slowly over low heat. The fish is then fried in a frying pan with lots of garlic cloves, green onions, ginger, and soy sauce, and stewed over low heat. When the fish is cooked and the cakes are hot, the family sits around and eats. The word "foreign accent" used to be a derogatory term to describe a country bumpkin, but here it is used in the sense of boldness. Stewed yellow croaker with a foreign accent is basically to ensure that each person has one, or even a few, in order to have enough atmosphere. It's not often that you get to go home, so you should eat a good meal of yellow croaker and enjoy the honor of being a daughter. As for the yellowtail fish inside put a lot of garlic cloves, it is said to be the spring zinnia blossom, if accidentally fell into the pot eat will be poisoned, add a lot of garlic cloves can be detoxified, but basically belong to the chat, baseless, garlic cloves to fishy flavor only.
Is it good to stew yellowtail with a foreign accent? I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but I'm sure it's a good idea. Instead, the cornmeal pancakes are better than the fish. I think it's better to leave it to the southerners to cook the fish.
The yellowtail is a deep-sea migratory fish that migrates twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, from the ocean to the offshore. Yimen from the Yellow Sea all the way south to Ningbo in the East China Sea, yellow croaker finally climbed to the peak of the fish life.
Ningbo's old name is Mingzhou, where the three rivers converge, the world's three major fishing grounds of Zhoushan fisheries on the doorstep, yellowtail fish here to become the love of the people of Ningbo, Ala.
Inside Ningbo cuisine, there are at least two dishes related to yellow croaker. "Moss strips yellowtail": the yellowtail cut into pieces, salt slightly pickled, rolled on the green seaweed produced in the sea of Ningbo, and then rolled on the flour under the frying pan fried, crispy on the outside and tender inside, the fish meat is snow white, crispy exterior dotted with green dots of seaweed, Ningbo people especially like seaweed, Jiang Gong's hometown is Fenghua Xikou, the baked cakes are also added to the seaweed, I just feel that it smells a little salty. I can't tell what the flavor is. "Big soup yellowtail": yellowtail frying pan on both sides, add cold water to cook into a creamy soup, do not add salt but add a good pickled potherb mustard. It is said to be the favorite of Bao Yugang, the king of Ningbo people's oriental boat back then.
Fujian and Zhejiang are connected, Ningbo to the south on the Fujian Mindong Ningde Xiapu, which is the largest fishing ground of China's yellow croaker, and is also said to be the best quality area. Just because Fujian is far away from economically developed areas, in the era of underdeveloped preservation technology, Min Dong yellowtail, I'm afraid that only the Fujian people themselves know.
Above for the yellow croaker masturbation, to this can stop. The deterioration of the marine environment, mankind's endless fishing, wild yellowtail is less and less, almost extinct. Now almost all rely on farming. Wild fish occasionally appear, immediately be snapped up, simply can not be seen.
Instead, net-box farmed rhubarb fish has become a regular in all seasons. As for the flavor, in the words of nine catty old lady, it is not as good as a generation. Farmed yellowtail meat is flabby, and fat, obviously lack of exercise, a look of middle-aged greasy men and women, you have to put down a lot of green onions and ginger, in order to get rid of the fishy flavor, but once the chopsticks, the fish will fall apart, frustrating. Recently, there are claimed to be semi-wild farming rhubarb fish, meat flavor slightly better.
The people of Fuzhou days too good, seafood all over the place, yellow croaker is not a valuable seafood. As usual, there is a steamed fish on the banquet, often almost the end before coming up, rarely see the yellowtail fish. The local yellow croaker is called cucumber, I do not know where it comes from. If it is a smaller yellowtail, is contemptuously called "melon child". There is also an even smaller yellowtail, about two fingers wide and one finger long, called "yellow plum ding".
The old generation of Fuzhou people, is to see the spring seafood explosion days, some years in the spring, seafood will suddenly a lot of many, called "horizontal three" (Fuzhou translation, do not know the correct Chinese is what). Mom said that in the spring of 1968, the yellow croaker hair horizontal three, from the big bridge to the small bridge, the road is full of yellow croaker, a catty of yellow croaker more than 50 cents, a small point of 30 cents, that can be all wild yellow croaker, not yellow mackerel small yellow croaker ah. Fuzhou people this invented a proverb "when the sheet, eat cross three", said the spring yellow croaker hair sea, the weather is also warm, the poor when the sheet, or can also afford to buy, afford to eat yellow croaker.
Later, then there is no ah ...... wild yellow croaker, less than the aliens. Heng three past events, leaving legends in vain.
Huangmeidin instead sold expensive, because it is wild. Huangmeidin can't be raised, no one is going to raise it.
Nowadays, the wild food is more expensive than the farmed ones.
Home flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers?
Addendum:
The yellow croaker is a golden yellow color, very much like the favorite of all mankind - gold! Shanghai is the financial center of the country at that time, the wealth gathered, after a number of currency reforms, paper money, no credit, the people still believe in gold, so the silver building cast a ten-two gold bars for trading and collection, the marketplace known as yellowtail. The old system of a catty and sixteen two, ten two is 312 grams, is not a small amount of money, the ordinary people can not afford to buy, the silver building was introduced one or two a gold bar, loved by everyone. We manage ten two gold bars for the big yellowtail, one or two gold bars for the small yellowtail.
This world, in the end, or look at the value of the ......