How to clean the flower armor to be clean without sand is to use salt and sesame oil, use vinegar, and put it in the refrigerator.

1, with salt and sesame oil

Put some salt in the water, and then a few drops of sesame oil, and then put the flower armor in the still for 1 hour, repeatedly stirring a stir, rinse with water can be clean. This is because the flavor of the salt and the aroma of the sesame oil will make the flower nails open up, and then when you stir them again, they will close up, so that when they open up and close up, the sand inside will be spit out.

2, with white vinegar

In the water add a small bowl of white vinegar, and then put the flower armor in the soaking for about 2 hours, so that the sand in the flower armor basically also spit clean.

3, put in the refrigerator

Flower armor clean, with a sieve, put in the refrigerator for 1 hour, so that the flower armor not only will not die, but also all the mouth to spit out the sand and mud. Although the flower armor is delicious, but wash not clean to eat certainly also do not feel safe, so make sure to wash them before cooking.

Morphological characteristics of the flower armor:

Smaller, shell surface color is generally yellow-brown, shell surface dark pattern similar to the text but there is a sense of concavity. The color is dark, the pattern becomes larger, with black, brown, dark brown, dense color or russet composition of spots or patterns. The flower nail is born in the shallow sea area a few meters deep below the intertidal zone, and is most abundant on the muddy sandy bottom.

The flower clam, also called flower clam by the Chaoshanese, is a culture species developed in the Chaoshan region in the last decade. Its scientific name is miscellaneous clams, shell nearly ovoid, pointed oval at the front end, blunt oval at the back end, shell surface dark yellowish brown, covered with "human" or fire tongue dark brown pattern, shell surface from the top of the shell to the ventral edge of the fine radial ribs. The shell surface has fine radial ribs from the top of the shell to the ventral margin. In general, the shell height is more than 2 centimeters, and the shell width is nearly 4 centimeters.