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Qidu is rich in squid. The fish body is flat or slightly cylindrical, with a body length of about three inches, a small mouth and a big belly, fine scales, a flower back and a white belly. There are small thorns on the belly, and the body is as big as a ball. The puffer fish is rich in nutrition, protein and various trace elements, and also has the dietotherapy effects of strengthening yang, regulating stomach and warming the middle warmer. The meat is tender, white, refreshing and elastic. If cooked properly, it is more delicious than puffer fish. There are many ways to eat fish, such as killing fish, peeling, washing, taking out internal organs, keeping fish liver, and eating while burning in the form of hot pot. Besides the fish meat, the fish liver is the most delicious thing for the fish. Squid breathes through gills, but has no lungs, and its liver is unusually large and delicate and tender. The so-called "Squid Lung Soup" is actually made from the liver of Squid. It is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty mistakenly thought that it was made by fish lungs, and mistakenly called it "lung soup", but since the emperor called it that way, he kept calling it down. Zhu Yizun, a poet in the early Qing Dynasty, said in "The Secret of Food Xian Hong": The fish is peeled and washed. First, the lung and wood flowers are soaked in clean water for half a day and cooked with the fish. It can be seen that at least in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, some people mistook the liver of the fish for the "lung". The famous dish of Taihu Lake, Pufei Soup, is famous at home and abroad. In the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1929, Yu Youren, an old man from 1 yuan, went down to Taihu Lake to watch Jingui, stopped by Mudu Town and had a meal at Shijia Hotel, which was founded in the Qianlong period. Seeing the delicious color, attractive aroma and exceptionally tender meat, he couldn't help admiring: "I just smelled the fragrant osmanthus and tasted the delicious soup." I couldn't help asking for three pieces of lung soup. Shi Ren 'an, the shopkeeper, learned that this "beautiful bearded man" was the famous Yu Youren, so he quickly held out Four Treasures of the Study and prayed to Mo Bao. Yu Youren's enthusiasm was strong, and he immediately displayed a seven-line calligraphy: "Old osmanthus blossoms all over the world, watching flowers travel around Taihu Lake. "It's memorable to return to Mudu, thanks to Shijia Pufei Decoction." In the autumn of 1990, Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist, visited Suzhou and wrote a four-character plaque for "Pufei Decoction".
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