Spicy crawfish, fish-flavored crawfish, garlic crawfish ...... I do not know when, crawfish climbed on the Chinese table, become the streets and alleys of restaurants in the "seasonal food". As a diner, I may not understand how many kinds of crayfish practice, but I know that the villagers once hated the "pest", but now it has become a star in the town of Ziyang Yanjiang District, Sichuan Province, agriculture and tourism.
Crayfish as a night snack stall trump card, the national market size of more than one hundred billion yuan, Chengdu daily consumption of twenty to thirty tons, and Ziyang Yanjiang District consumes at least two thousand tons of crayfish every year ...... From these data, it is enough to reflect the Zhonghe crayfish's best-selling degree. From farming to catering, Zhonghe crayfish has become the Ziyang people's heart food.
June 18, coinciding with the Dragon Boat Festival. We were a group of five people, along the rural highway shortcut to the middle and, although the road conditions almost, but a lot closer.
Almost to the town of Zhonghe, the eyes suddenly bright, neat farmhouse, unified white walls and red tiles, two-story buildings, willow shade, every family has Nongjiale, there is actually a "Lotus Pond Music" concert hall, such a beautiful scene I not only stop the car, take out the cell phone click click click click up, look up, Zhonghe Town, Mingyue Village, which is not the crayfish farming base of Mingyue Village. The first time I saw the car, I saw the car, I saw the car, I saw the car, I saw the car, I saw the car.
In the past two years, the crayfish industry has accelerated the development of the breeding industry. 2015, the town of Zhonghe development of special industries to get rid of poverty and become rich, the town's 18 villages jumped out of the thinking mode of relying on crops to earn money, change the culture of crayfish, the scale of breeding has more than 5,000 acres, with an annual output of more than 1,000 tons, the formation of a "mountain citrus, lobster in the water! "three-dimensional agricultural industry development model.
Farmer Wu Yong caught the tide of crayfish farming. Last year, under his leadership, more than 10 farmers in Longhu Village, Zhonghe Town, set up Yueyue Chen aquatic specialty cooperatives. "Last year, the purchase price of a kilogram of crayfish is more than 40 yuan, 60 acres of shrimp ponds earned more than 200,000 yuan a year." Wu Yong said happily.
In the town of Zhonghe, through the development of crawfish aquaculture, will be sold to their own farmed crayfish in the catering industry, Ziyang City and Chengdu market, in the town of Zhonghe more than 10 poor households out of poverty in advance, removed the "poverty cap". Some farmers through the cultivation of crayfish, a year can increase income of 30,000 yuan, to the town of Zhonghe as the core of the crayfish production and marketing integration pattern is gradually formed.
Farming is only in the town to build "in and crayfish" brand at the beginning, in order to better this crayfish "trump card" to launch, in the town based on "festival stage "mode, played the" Lobster Festival "of the gold standard.
Last year, the first Ziyang Zhonghe Crawfish Food Festival, created in the town of Zhonghe festival during the passenger flow, traffic, consumption, attention, influence and other five "history of the most". According to incomplete statistics, the food festival during the scene of visitors, diners more than 120,000 people, only the opening day of more than 60,000 people, spending a total of more than 1.6 million yuan, including consumption of more than 26,000 pounds of crayfish, sales of more than 900,000 yuan, the three values are about 13 times the usual holiday.
Now, with the "Lobster Festival", Ziyang Yanjiang District in the town of Ziyang out of a "nothing out of nothing" of the development of a new way, but also for the former little-known town has accumulated fame, popularity, business and wealth.
Into the industrial park and the north and south trunk road activity site can feel the lively atmosphere, many local and foreign food mouths drive to the activity site, parked vehicles stretched over several thousand meters, the activity site crowded. Come to the middle and a few times, every time to marvel at the changes in the town and since the Suizimei high-speed and the opening of the toll station in the middle and the industrial park since the start of construction, the industrial park spacious and straight asphalt road in all directions, tree-lined, factory buildings stand.
A row of green tents eye-catching, a business make every effort: some with the kind of vegetables loaded with foam cover cover, the lobster placed in the top into a variety of graphic type to solicit guests; some boiled lobster anyone taste; there are discount promotions, eat three pounds to send a catty. Households in front of a large basin of fresh lobster pots and claws.
We wandered around the lobster festival on the right and left, legs are soft, eyes are spent. Suddenly at the crossroads, a stall selling Five Aces Sad Cold Cake caught the eye. "I want to eat cold cake, I haven't had it for years." Looking at the crystal clear cold cake, I yelled to the store owner.
"Oops, sad cold cake! Have a bowl, I'm really sad!" Co-worker beauty Sadie shouted in shocked claws and paws. "You have to be numb and spicy to be called sad cold noodles, tears come out to be sad ah!" We teased her.
A bowl of cold cake, soft and delicate, the entrance into the dregs, to yellow sugar peanuts and sesame, sweet and refreshing, such as when I was a child, Grandpa took me on the street to eat, as if all of a sudden found the taste of childhood.
Xiao Zhen's cold noodles came up, white and thin with green onions, ginger and garlic, spicy grease evenly covered in the top, white through the bright, a look at the appetite.
Xiaozhen took a bite, slurping: "Well, delicious, really delicious!" Immediately afterward, beads of sweat oozed out of the tip of his nose, and tears flowed out of his eyes.
"Sadie is really sad!" We laughed.
Xiaozhen also laughed, casually came to say: "Dragon Boat Festival to eat cold noodles, the powder has your true love, powder has my beloved, so entangled, so intoxicated, shed tears of sadness."
Just ate cold noodles, the gorgeous stage over there moved up. With the CCTV a handsome host fluent standard Mandarin, CCTV happy bill national election Ziyang station opened. First of all, the CCTV brought powerful songs and dances to turn over the whole scene, and then a few amazons took the stage to perform, although the talent is not very good, but the courage can be praised. Subsequently, cycling performance, dance, solo, fast board turns on stage, Ziyang players with a variety of forms to show Ziyang people's talent and talent, won the judges and teachers unanimous praise and warm applause from the audience.
"You go up and sing, and try to get reimbursed for the bill for the lobster today." Tourists from the city of Ziyang temporarily signed up to sing two songs under the encouragement of a friend, and won the promotion of two teachers in the three judges for sure.
The end of the audition, nightfall, many businesses under the awning has been overcrowded, spicy, garlic, pepper salt, thirteen spice, oil stew, a variety of reminiscent of the flavor of the diffusion. We had a hard time finding home and the local lobster hall sat down, not a moment's effort, a plate of brightly colored and fragrant lobster on the end of the out.
It is said that in the town and the field of four specializing in the sale of crayfish food service units, the most famous is in the heart of the edge of the hotel, daily sales of crayfish in the 600 to 800 pounds ranging from holiday sales can break through more than a thousand pounds. Secondly, in and Shu people cooked lobster museum, Lotusland Moonlight Nongjia and two trees fried lobster store, daily sales are also more than a few hundred pounds, the restaurant has become the main position of crawfish cooked food consumption.
I picked up a large lobster, lobster broken open, tender shrimp meat exposed, a mouthful of mouth, smooth and tender, spicy and fragrant, so I can not stop, eager to grab another.
The night of the Dragon Boat Festival, beer and crayfish, we just put the end of the Dragon Boat and lobster fried together.