Chapter 228 Today’s Ingredients Are Very Good
"It's been so long, and you finally decided to go out to sea!" Jin Fan's voice came.
As Zhang Ze's fishing boat approached, not only were Jin Sanbao and others waiting for him on the deck, but Tong Yuanhang, who was originally trawling, also drove his boat over.
Tong Guisheng did not come along this time, so it was more natural for several young people to be together.
Although everyone here except Zhang Ze already has children at home, the oldest one, Jin Sanbao, is only 26 years old, so it's not an exaggeration to say that he is a youngster.
"I've been busy with other things lately and have been delayed!" They didn't know about the seafood restaurant yet, so they didn't understand what Zhang Ze was busy with recently.
This time they met him in person, and not only did they take the opportunity to run onto his boat, they also asked questions out of curiosity.
"What's the matter that kept you busy for half a month? I asked A'long before, but he said he didn't know." Tong Yuanhang asked first. After all, he was his brother-in-law, so he had no scruples about asking.
"I, Mr. Zhao from the restaurant, and my cousin Wenbin invested together to open a seafood restaurant." Zhang Ze didn't wait for them to ask what a seafood restaurant was, and explained the matter clearly.
After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that he was leaving the masses and preparing to become a boss! Jin Fan's eyes turned and he immediately said, "No, Aze, we are all fishermen, how can you secretly become a boss!"
Tong Guoqi also followed suit: "That's right, now that you're going to be the boss, you shouldn't treat us to a meal, right?"
Zhang Ze immediately said angrily: "I already owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to others, and I don't even know if the seafood restaurant can make money. How dare you ask me to treat you?"
"Hmm~" Tong Yuanhang patted his shoulder and said jokingly, "If it were us, it would probably take at least ten or eight years to pay off the hundreds of thousands, and we might even be lost in a shipwreck one day!"
"But as for you, I think you can pay it off by next year at the latest! So, owing money is just a small matter for you, so as a boss, you have to treat us?"
Seeing that everyone looked like they were going to kill him, Zhang Ze immediately acted like a rogue and spread his hands, "My life is here, no treat for you!"
Just as Tong Yuanhang was about to say something, Jin Sanbao's extremely surprised voice suddenly came from the side: "Wow, so many tuna."
Swish~ A group of people flashed and gathered at the door of the cold storage compartment in the blink of an eye.
"Oh my god, so many?"
"I told you, there are thirty-eight in total."
"Each one is so round and plump, it feels like they weigh at least four thousand pounds."
"We worked so hard to catch so few fish, but Aze caught so many just after going out to sea. It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others!"
"Aze, you have to treat me to this meal!"
"Please, please~" Seeing that everyone was determined to take advantage of him, Zhang Ze had no choice but to agree.
But it was just a dinner invitation, and he was actually quite willing to go, so we just treated it as a dinner party.
Anyway, he is treating us today, and Jin Sanbao and others will take turns to eat in the future.
A relationship can only last long if there is give and take. If you really just treat him as a sucker, then you won't be able to maintain a relationship with anyone for long, even if you're a fool.
"Aze, this looks like bluefin tuna. This type of tuna is much more expensive than other tuna!" Tong Yuanhang, who had spent a long time at sea, finally recognized the identity of the fish in the refrigerated compartment, and his tone became even more envious.
Not many people know about tuna these days, even the fishermen living in seaside fishing villages.
Even fewer people can recognize bluefin tuna. How can those who don’t know about it possibly recognize it?
Tong Yuanhang was able to recognize it because he had caught two of them by chance before with a trawl, and only found out what kind of fish it was when he returned to shore.
At that time, because we didn't know much, we bled the fish but didn't remove the internal organs, which resulted in a certain impact on the fish meat and a much lower price.
So he made a special effort to learn about tuna. Unfortunately, there was very little information available in this era, and Tong Yuanhang could only get some useful information from some knowledgeable people.
If he hadn't caught the bluefin tuna himself, he wouldn't have been able to recognize it.
"Are there any differences between these tunas? Aze, can you tell me about it, so that I won't be able to recognize it when I catch it in the future." Jin Sanbao, who was standing next to him, asked without understanding.
They also cast nets, and maybe they can catch tuna someday, so it’s good to get to know them in advance.
Zhang Ze smiled when he heard this: "You think you can catch tuna with your gillnet? A slightly larger tuna like this can smash your gillnet, unless it's a small fry, so what does it matter whether you recognize it or not?"
"Wow, is tuna so fierce?" Jin Fan was a little surprised.
"You all know skipjack tuna, right? This thing is much more ferocious than skipjack tuna." Zhang Ze nodded in affirmation, but thinking that they would also go fishing with hand fishing lines when they had nothing to do, he still explained to them several common types of tuna and how to distinguish them.
The physical characteristics of common tuna are quite obvious. Once you catch it by fishing or netting it, everyone will be able to recognize it with his description.
After talking about tuna, Tong Yuanhang asked the others, "Would you like to have a meal together tonight, such as a barbecue or something? Although we are all from the same fishing village, it is not often that we get together like today."
"I had a pretty good harvest today. I got a lot of crabs, as well as a lot of conches, shells, and scallops."
The flower snail, also known as the Dongfeng conch, is a type of snail that is much more expensive than other snails. It is mainly concentrated in coastal areas, but it is not uncommon to find it in the open sea.
Zhang Ze raised his eyebrows: "You are so willing to give it away, even the flower snails?"
"There are only more than 30 of them, and I'll only make that much money if I sell them. This thing tastes good with some wine!" Tong Yuanhang laughed. His family is not short of money, so he and his two younger brothers will not feel bad about these things now.
When Jin Sanbao heard him say that, he also agreed: "Then let's sell some fish too. You can go to my place later and take whatever fish you like."
Zhang Ze sighed and said, "Well, I have to get one of my bluefin tuna, or I'll be embarrassed to eat yours for free."
Although they had arranged a dinner, it was still early in the evening, so everyone simply took out their cards and started playing double-knock on his boat.
Whoever loses plays, it's quite interesting for seven people to play.
By three o'clock, Tong Yuanhang and Chen Xudong had each won five or six dollars, while the others, including Zhang Ze, had lost some money.
Zhang Ze doesn't play cards very often, let alone remember them, so he loses the most.
But a little gambling is fun, and this little money is nothing to him.
The time was almost up, so the few of them put away the cards and went back to the boat to get the food.
Zhang Ze moved out the barbecue grill. Tong Yuanhang and others would move the tables later, so he went to the cold storage compartment and chose the smallest bluefin tuna.
It’s not that they are reluctant to do so, but no matter how much seven people eat, they cannot finish a tuna that weighs more than 100 pounds after processing, not to mention the other ingredients.
He had to take the rest of the tuna home and eat it slowly.
Fortunately, bluefin tuna can be eaten more than just as sashimi. It can also be fried or used as filling for dumplings with beef. There are many ways to eat it.
If it were any other tuna, Zhang Ze would be worried, after all, the taste is far worse than that of bluefin tuna.
Under normal circumstances, if you want to eat tuna caught by fishing, you have to remove the acid first.
However, he didn't need that for his tunas. One of them was pulled up with a winch because the tuna's struggle and resistance was too short.
Another point is that tuna do not need to swim in space because the lactic acid in their bodies has been decomposed by themselves.
So Zhang Ze got a big bucket of water and threw the tuna in to thaw it. It could be eaten after it was thawed.
After a while, Tong Yuanhang, Jin Sanbao and others returned to the Duoyu one after another.
Zhang Ze accidentally saw the bag of green and yellow peppers in Tong Yuanhang's hand, and a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Are these pickled peppers?"
Tong Yuanhang was startled: "You know?"
"I've heard of this stuff. It should come from Sichuan and Chongqing. How do you have it?"
"So you knew it. I wanted to let you see it!" Tong Yuanhang looked a little regretful, which made Zhang Ze's eyebrows twitch.
“I saw an old man selling this on the street, so I bought some.”
"When I was a kid, my dad had a comrade-in-arms from Sichuan and Chongqing who brought some pickled peppers. Although I thought they were very spicy at the time, they were very appetizing."
"So when I saw someone selling these pickled peppers this time, I just bought them all."
"How come you are so lucky that you even meet someone selling pickled peppers on the street!" Zhang Ze was a little speechless.
Various seasonings are too scarce nowadays, and some of the dishes he wants to eat cannot be made because of the seasonings.
When he saw Pickle Pepper, he immediately had an idea in his mind.
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"How about I make a pickled pepper fish head later?"
Zhang Ze is from Wenshui City. He likes to use pickled peppers instead of chopped peppers for fish heads. He personally thinks pickled pepper fish heads taste better and are not too spicy if cooked well.
Basically, few people here can eat spicy food. If they go to some spicy places in Sichuan, Chongqing, or southern Hunan, they can only eat slightly spicy food at most.
"What is pickled pepper fish head?" Tong Yuanhang, Jin Sanbao and others are either from Wenshui City or Nanguan. They have nothing to do with eating spicy food, so naturally they have never heard of chopped pepper or pickled pepper fish head.
In addition, Zhang Ze didn’t know whether chopped pepper fish head had been developed in this era. Anyway, many dishes only appeared after the economic conditions improved.
In fact, chopped pepper fish head had already appeared in the Qing Dynasty, but these country people were ignorant and had never heard of it. Zhang Ze also benefited from the information explosion era in later generations.
"It's just an interesting dish. Since there are pickled peppers, I'll make one. I guarantee you'll want more after you try it."
Zhang Ze took the pickled peppers from Tong Yuanhang's hand and soaked them, and at the same time took out an unused stainless steel basin.
Pickled pepper fish head, of course, is made with tuna head.
The tuna head is very big, and even with a washbasin, you can only hold half of it. Fortunately, there are a lot of things today, so there is no need to cook the whole fish head.
It would take a while for the tuna to thaw, so Zhang Ze went to the kitchen to prepare the soup for the fish head.
This stuff has a lot of flavor, so it will taste good when it is seasoned.
At the same time, he was also very greedy for the flower snails that Tong Yuanhang brought. The tail of the flower snail can be eaten. It is yellow and tastes very fragrant, just like the fragrance of crab roe.
Even he would not be willing to eat this thing often in later generations, as wild ones cost about two hundred yuan per pound.
Each one weighs 250 grams, and four weigh one pound. They are very big and taste great.
The price of farmed fish is half the price, but the taste is gone.
Just as Zhang Ze finished preparing the soup, Tong Yuanhang came in with the cleaned snails.
"Aze, how do we get this snail?"
"Let's stir-fry the conches and blanch the flower snails."
In fact, salt-baking is very suitable for conchs, but due to limited conditions, there is not enough salt to bring on the boat, and there is no oven.
"Then you cook these snails, and we will roast the others outside." Tong Yuanhang said as he placed the snails next to the stove in the kitchen.
"Okay, leave these to me!" Zhang Ze nodded and blanched the snails in cold water. Boiling the snail meat in cold water will prevent it from sticking to the shell.
For the conches, take out the meat one by one, discard the tail part and stir-fry only the meat from the head.
The tail part of the conch is not as delicious as the flower conch, so it’s not a pity to throw it away.
After cutting the conch meat, Zhang Ze put it aside and did not stir-fry it immediately.
By the time he finished cutting the snail meat, all the snails were cooked.
Zhang Ze fished them all out and placed them on a large plate, then added some dipping sauce and served them out together.
Several people outside were busy. He put the snail on the table, picked up a bamboo stick and poked it into the snail meat. Then he kept rotating the snail shell and got the whole snail meat out intact.
Seeing the yellow at the tail, he laughed and said, "These snails are very fat. Let me try some for you."
As he said this, he ate the snail meat in one bite. The snail meat was sweet and tasted like cartilage. The yellow at the tail was really as fragrant as crab roe.
When eating flower snails, you have to eat the yellow part. Flower snails without the yellow part are just like loud conchs, nothing special.
"How does it taste?" Tong Yuanhang asked.
Zhang Ze frowned and said, "Your snail is not good. Why is it smelly?"
"Ah?" Tong Yuanhang was stunned.
"Forget it, forget it. The snails are smelly, so you'd better not eat them, otherwise you will get diarrhea. I'm in good health, so I'm not afraid. I'll take care of them so they won't be wasted." Zhang Ze said as he was about to take the plate back to the kitchen.
"Damn, you're playing tricks on me, right?" Tong Yuanhang immediately strangled Zhang Ze's neck with his arms and said viciously.
The others laughed and put down what they were doing and ran over to enjoy the delicious conch.
After laughing for a while, Zhang Ze went to check on the tuna. Seeing that it was almost thawed, he took it out of the bucket and started cutting it.
Before eating tuna, if possible, you should enjoy the cutting performance.
Cutting the plump bluefin tuna into pieces of red fish meat looks particularly refreshing and also relieves stress.
It was also Zhang Ze’s first time cutting tuna and he was not very skilled.
But once you know the parts of a fish's body, you'll basically know how to cut tuna.
Zhang Ze first cut off the fish's gills and threw them away, then cut off the fish's head.
Unlike the head of bighead carp, after the tuna head is cut off, there is basically only meat at the brain position, and there is no meat around the gills.
But the fish was big enough, so there was still a lot of meat even if only the brain was included.
The fish head was chopped off, and then the various parts of the body were separated, until only a skeleton was left.
But there was still a lot of meat on the skeleton, so he took two iron spoons and asked Jin Fan and Chen Xudong to scrape off the fish meat.
He cut a small piece of fish belly into slices and enjoyed it first.
(End of this chapter)
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