The horseshoe crab is a creature with unparalleled talents, or adaptability.
The horseshoe crab is a remnant of the Devonian Period. At that time, dinosaurs had not yet dominated the world and primitive fishes had just appeared. As time went by, animals of its generation either evolved or became extinct. However, only the horseshoe crab still retains its original and ancient appearance. Don't abandon or give up, even in the era of cataclysm, it's still the same, but it's just bigger.
It has lasted like this for more than 500 million years, 500 million years!
The crocodile, the very popular half-crocodile dragon in the restaurant, is like a little brother to the horseshoe crab...
The horseshoe crab that Lin Chouti slipped back was significantly larger than the one given to the Black Army. There were no two pairs of special hooks on the joints under the back shell, so there was no doubt that it was a female.
What’s more interesting is that once horseshoe crabs get married (the female is hooked and cannot run away), the female is always very happy (???) to carry a smaller male on her back and give birth to thousands of babies...
The giant horseshoe crab actually looks a lot like a spaceship with retro paint. The haze blue and slightly darker gray carapace has a smooth surface and sharp, jagged edges. This makes it look a little gentler than the male sent to the Black Sea. , because the male has a thick and sharp fin-like barb and three rows of small spines on its back.
Mr. Shan chewed his teeth while looking at Huazi. He held it in for a long time before he finally came up with one sentence:
"I'm afraid this thing doesn't have as much meat as crabs, right?"
Emmm, that's all he cares about - coincidentally, Lin Chou is exactly the same as him.
Considering that this place is more than 300 kilometers away from the sea, Lin Chou didn't think of betting on the horseshoe crab's true death distance, so Boss Lin threw a bunch of crabs, conchs and other things into the horseshoe crab's new home, and even picked up small ones and put them inside. Throw.
It took less than 20 minutes for the horseshoe crab to adapt to its new home. After being sprayed with water arrows twice, Boss Lin grabbed his tail and pulled him out.
The horseshoe crab panicked at that time. This posture was so familiar to it. The feeling of being dropped to death twice while carrying it all the way back was particularly unforgettable.
It is definitely useless to struggle, the more you struggle, the more cruel you will be.
First, open the shell for the first time and take out the meat:
Its white and crystal-clear muscles are divided into two types, one is slender strips and the other is garlic clove flesh, probably due to different division of functions.
Its white meat and carapace are filled with meat similar to oil, but it is yellow-green, loose and soft.
There are often a lot of round horseshoe crab eggs the size of mung beans in these yellow-green flesh.
When the meat was halfway through, the horseshoe crab couldn't bear the humiliation and was led away on the spot.
In a moment, all the wounds on the carapace were restored to their original state, and he began to struggle vigorously.
Huang Dashan: "..."
The second time, Lin Chou killed off its tail with a knife. It is said that the triangular piece of meat at the thickest part of the horseshoe crab's tail is very delicious, because the tail must be raised frequently to get enough exercise.
The third time, the struggle was too violent and the only rectum was broken, causing a fishy stench.
the fourth time...
I tried back and forth countless times, but in short, I removed the parts of the horseshoe crab in batches, and when combined, it can be used as a complete horseshoe crab.
Huang Dashan had an excited smile on his face,
"It's inexhaustible. This dish must be on sale. It must be on sale."
At this time, a small figure emerged from the bar and snorted at Huang Dashan with his nose in disdain,
"Pervert~!"
Su Yourong, who had been hiding for an unknown amount of time, walked away disappointedly carrying the pan.
Master Shan couldn't help but rub his face,
"In this little girl's movie, you didn't get scolded for doing evil things. How come I'm such a pervert when I'm just watching the show?"
Lin Chou laughed out loud,
"Tsk~"
"I took action because I'm a cook, and I'm not old enough to even dip a bloody steamed bun into it when I see a beheaded person."
Master Shan was confused.
"What do you mean? I always feel like it's not a good thing to say..."
Lin Chou poured herself a glass of happy water and ignored him.
Horseshoe crabs are said to be extremely fresh and delicious. Once you eat them, you can’t forget the taste. There is also a legend you can experience for yourself:
It is said that many people in the mountains made semi-conical horseshoe crabs by soaking the shells of female horseshoe crabs in sea water and bending them into semicircles. The joints were nailed to the bamboo handles to make semi-conical horseshoe crabs. The horseshoe crabs are elastic and soft and will not damage the cauldron. They are used to scoop water from the tank. Or put porridge in a pot, which is easy to use and can taste the taste of horseshoe crab on days when you are not going to sea.
This legend may be exaggerated, but it has nothing to do with the horseshoe crab's status on the table.
Until the great catastrophe in southern Fujian, horseshoe crab culture could be seen everywhere, and horseshoe crab was a symbolic ingredient of Chaozhou cuisine.
However, since ancient times, the most important way to eat horseshoe crab in the gastronomic history is to make it into sauce.
Duan Jiujiu's "Beihu Lu": "The seeds are like hemp, and the seeds can be used as sauce, that is, horseshoe crab sauce."
Liu Xun's "Ling Biao Lu Yi": "There are seeds in the belly like mung beans. The southerners take them, chop the flesh and feet, and mix them into sauce."
"Baoqing Siming Zhi": Among the Hai people, Dai's horseshoe crab sauce is unique and rare. Although others have it, the taste is not as good as it. This horseshoe crab is shaped like an overturned bucket, as big as a cart, greenish-brown, with twelve legs, five or six inches long, and a tail two or three feet long. Its shell is hard, with a single line of horizontal stripes around its waist, and is soft and flexible, with each bend making one line. The tail is hard and has thorns, which can hurt people, and the mouth is covered with blows. Every time there is a male and a female in the sea, the fishermen will get both, weaving bamboo into an armor.
The specific method is probably to break the shell, take the meat, seeds and paste, and mash them with a variety of local ingredients to make a sauce, each with its own taste.
There are even more extreme cases where the fleshy horseshoe crab shells and feet are not spared. They are smashed and mixed with fish sauce or shrimp and crab sauce. The fermentation lasts for 1 to 3 days, and then the fermented sauce is used to mix with fresh horseshoe crabs. Meat, seeds and paste, both raw and cooked.
emmmm...
The carapace is fermented with fish sauce and shrimp and crab sauce, and the taste must be quite extreme...
It is not recommended for people with low resistance to even smell it. It will definitely hit your head, the kind that will linger around you for three days.
Lin Chou felt that perhaps the reason why horseshoe crab sauce had a place in ancient banquets could be understood this way. It may be a bit exaggerated to say that "horseshoe crabs weigh eight pounds, and the meat is only two or three ounces." However, it is undeniable that there are very few edible parts of horseshoe crabs.
In this way, when many people cannot catch enough horseshoe crabs to use the meat for cooking, the horseshoe crab sauce can be used with other foods to enjoy the deliciousness of the horseshoe crabs without restraint.
Lin Chou was also very unscrupulous today, and he was going to try a few more methods.
Because this guy opened the same horseshoe crab N times and took out so much meat that even the horseshoe crab itself didn't dare to take a look.
With special effects, the system forces him to sell one dish of this dish every month. Today is the first time that Lin Chou doesn't have negative emotions because the raw materials are too rare.
"Tsk~"
I have to say, this feeling is really very happy, happier than ice-cold happy water.
The first thing Lin Chou tried was the famous horseshoe crab sauce.
He often uses abalone liver to make raw and cooked sauce, and he always gets unexpected surprises. This time he used a rare horseshoe crab, so he must treat it well.
