When it comes to Chile, most people probably think of Chilean cherries and king crabs.
Especially as the Spring Festival approaches each year, a large number of imported Chilean cherries appear in my country's fruit market.
Moreover, with the development of the internet in recent years, advertising in this area has become more effective and has resonated with consumers, leading to higher and higher prices for Chilean cherries.
Bai Yu also really likes cherries, but he doesn't like to call them cherries; he calls them big cherries instead.
It's just a type of cherry, why give it a foreign name?
The price of these large cherries varies depending on the grade, including two-J, three-J, and even quite a few four-J cherries.
The more J's a cherry has, the larger it is, and the higher its price.
As for how high the price could be, Bai Yu didn't really know, because he hadn't bought these big cherries in a long time; he always ate them by eating other people's.
However, since they have come to Chile, the origin of imported cherries in China, they will naturally not miss this opportunity.
As for the claim that it's not the right season for cherries and there are no cherries to eat in May, that's not something Bai Yu is considering.
After all, since people invented the function of ultra-low temperature storage, many off-season fruits and vegetables have appeared one after another.
Especially in the cherry industry, this technology is used even more extensively.
Otherwise, how do you think cherries imported from Chile traveled across the ocean to reach China?
Shipped by air?
Perhaps, but only a portion of cherries can enjoy this treatment, and even then, they are the kind that are sold at a very, very high price.
After all, shipping capacity is very limited, and our family imports tens of thousands of tons of cherries from Chile every year.
Shipping cannot meet the demand for such a large volume of goods, and the cost is too high; only sea freight can handle it.
If we want to transport cherries from Chile to China by sea, it will take at least a month. So how should we preserve the cherries during this process?
Aside from ultra-low temperature storage, there's probably no other way to prevent cherries from spoiling.
Since ultra-low temperature storage can keep cherries from spoiling for a month, is it possible that even though cherries are past their ripening period, they could still be stored at extremely low temperatures?
But what if some merchants have stored a certain amount of cherries?
Bai Yu wasn't picky. Even though these cherries had been frozen for several months, he didn't mind. He just wanted to try them.
In a port city in Chile, Bai Yu and his companions only stayed for one day, ate some cherries, and then left.
It's not that the city isn't beautiful or that the facilities are poor; it's just that Bai Yu and the others aren't used to it.
The city they stopped in was in northern Chile, where the climate is desert. Even though it was a port city, it was so dry that they really couldn't stay there.
That's why they left the next day and continued south, eventually stopping in Santiago, the capital of Chile.
As the most developed country in South America, Chile's capital city is naturally very prosperous, with skyscrapers everywhere that are a sight to behold.
Despite Chile's relatively small size, its main economic pillars are forestry, mining, fishing, and agriculture.
However, the level of development of their capital city gave Bai Yu the feeling of being in a bustling metropolis. He felt that even compared with major cities in China, they could only rival the capital and Shanghai.
As they disembarked from the yacht, Bai Yu looked at the towering buildings before them, and the group exclaimed in surprise.
It wasn't that they lacked experience, but rather that the prosperity of Santiago exceeded their expectations.
They had a great time in the city, indulging in all sorts of fun activities.
And they didn't just play on land; they also went to the waters off Chile to fish for king crabs.
However, they didn't go in their own yacht; instead, they went with a local Chilean guide who took them there in his yacht.
Although Bai Yu's company also has fishing rights in Chile, it's not the season for catching king crabs right now, and their company doesn't have any quotas available, so they can't catch any king crabs.
Illegal fishing is against the law, and if they get caught by the local law enforcement, they can go to jail.
However, some local tourism companies in Chile have a special privilege: even outside of the fishing season, they can take tourists to areas where king crabs are found to fish for them.
That's right, you don't use crab traps to catch them, but rather you use ropes to fish for them. And if the king crabs you catch meet the standards, they are still edible.
This privilege makes tourists from all over the world who come to Chile very willing to pay for this experience.
Bai Yu and his friends did just that; they spent money to experience crab fishing and lobster fishing.
Can you believe it? In the waters off Chile, you can catch both king crabs and lobsters at the same time.
As is well known, king crabs are cold-water crustaceans, while lobsters are mostly warm-water or tropical marine crustaceans.
These two creatures rarely appear in the same area, after all, king crabs are not crabs, and lobsters only live in the same sea area as crabs.
However, in Chile, during certain seasons, fishermen can catch both king crabs and lobsters in the same waters at the same time.
The places where Bai Yu and his crew caught the king crab and the giant lobster were no more than five nautical miles apart. Within those five nautical miles, the seabed temperature was vastly different.
According to the local tour guide, the seabed temperature on both sides differs by more than ten degrees Celsius, which is why this situation occurred.
Bai Yu and the others listened to these things as rather intriguing tales, but what interested them most was the taste of Chilean king crab.
King crabs worldwide can be broadly classified into five types: Alaskan king crab, Goose king crab, Northern king crab, Norwegian king crab, and Chilean king crab.
Even if there are other species like king crabs, they are all located around these areas and can be categorized into these five types.
Chilean king crabs have a relatively slow growth cycle, taking seven to eight years to grow from larvae to maturity.
Bai Yu always believed that things that grow relatively slowly are more delicious. If you don't believe me, you can read those fantasy novels. Those rare and precious materials are said to grow for a thousand years and bear fruit for a thousand years. They must be good things.
These Chilean king crabs take seven or eight years to grow, so their meat should be different from king crabs from other regions, with its own unique taste.
However, after Bai Yu tasted them, his evaluation of these king crabs was only one thing: apart from being a little sweeter than the king crab from Da'e, there was no other difference.
The slightly sweet taste may be due to the influence of the Antarctic waters, where the temperature is lower, and the different environment naturally results in a slight difference in flavor.
As for the giant lobster, Bai Yu didn't think it was any different from the domestic flower lobster; the taste was pretty much the same.
It's a pity that the flower lobster is now protected in China. Apart from those who have already tasted the flower lobster, it's uncertain whether anyone will be able to taste it again in the future.
Anyway, Bai Yu can still eat them every year, because there are plenty of flower lobsters right outside their small fishing village, and the quantity is huge. Their village has a flower lobster catching event every year.
That's why he could say that Chilean lobsters are almost indistinguishable from our domestic flower lobsters, even in terms of appearance and variety.
They are all spiny lobsters, but the lobsters here in Chile have a different name in Chile.
After trying several of Chilean specialties, Bai Yu and his companions began to explore the country, visiting some of its more famous tourist attractions.
This should be considered the last Pacific country they stayed in. After they left Chile and entered Argentina, they left the Pacific Ocean and entered a new place.
So Bai Yu and his friends naturally wanted to have some fun, and also do a live stream to update their fans who had been following their activities.
It's been three months since their yacht left Hai Province. In those three months, they've traveled to countless places and shared many stories online.
Their journey around the world, coupled with Bai Yu's own popularity, has already drawn a great deal of attention to their every move in China.
Even internationally, many people are paying attention to them.
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