A group of crew members followed Chen Qingsheng down to the bottom of the sea, and followed Chen Qingsheng into a huge seaweed forest.
Xiang Yang nodded slightly in his heart after seeing this. No wonder he didn't find the abalone but Chen Qingsheng found it first. It turned out that it was hiding in the seaweed.
Abalone likes to live among seaweed. This is related to the habits of abalone. They are timid by nature. During the day, they usually hide in the crevices of reefs where seaweed grows or in rock caves and do not move. They will only come out to forage when night falls, looking for seaweed and some non-aggressive plankton on the seabed as food.
Before this, Xiang Yang had never thought that there would be abalone living in this seaweed forest, so he didn't search for them deliberately.
Now that he knew it, Xiang Yang naturally looked around carefully.
With the advantage of his eyesight, Xiang Yang was like a human infrared scanner. He soon found a large abalone with brown spots on its surface, which was a bit like a human ear and had a row of small holes on the shell, between two reefs in a seaweed patch.
"Found it." Xiang Yang was delighted and immediately swam towards that direction.
Chen Qingsheng noticed Xiang Yang leaving. He wanted to say that the abalone was not found here, but he could not make any sound in the water, and he could not bear to watch Xiang Yang leave, so he immediately became anxious.
Soon, Xiang Yang squeezed out a natural abalone the size of a palm from between the two reefs. The size of this abalone was no smaller than the one found by Chen Qingsheng. It was obvious at a glance that it was also a three-headed abalone, a rare seafood.
Chen Qingsheng's eyes were wide open. He had been watching Xiang Yang ever since he left the team. He saw that after Xiang Yang left the team, he swam to the middle of the two rocks exactly and picked up an abalone from it. If someone told Chen Qingsheng at this time that this was luck, he would never believe it even if he was beaten to death.
But the distance from Xiang Yang's starting point to the place where the abalone was caught was more than twenty meters. How could he see the abalone hiding at the bottom of the reef from twenty meters away in the dim light under the water
What kind of joke is this
It's such a small thing that you can't even see it clearly on the road, let alone underwater.
Xiang Yang was slightly excited when he looked at the big abalone in his hand. He didn't expect that he would find an abalone just after coming down, and it had three heads.
Xiang Yang was not going to sell this abalone. He planned to take this three-headed abalone home for his parents to taste.
If it was a single-headed abalone or a double-headed abalone, Xiang Yang might feel a little pain, but not a triple-headed abalone. With Xiang Yang's current wealth, he can afford to eat a triple-headed abalone occasionally, let alone catch it himself.
Although Xiang Yang had never tasted abalone, he had heard of it. More than two thousand years ago, the ancient people who loved food began to explore abalone and made a variety of delicious dishes.
The Wei Wu Emperor, a powerful figure during the Three Kingdoms period, was extremely impressed by abalone. Su Shi, a foodie during the Northern Song Dynasty, was also a loyal fan of abalone.
The most common abalone on the market is the wrinkled abalone, its shell is dark green with reddish brown, it is a northern subspecies of the black abalone, the shell is generally 8-15 cm long, now it is widely cultivated artificially, the output is huge, the "small abalone" that everyone eats usually is of this quality? If counted by the head, after being made into dried abalone, there are generally more than a hundred heads.
It is worth mentioning that the number of abalone heads is not the weight taken out of water? It refers to the pure weight of dry abalone? There are often some unscrupulous merchants in the market who take advantage of consumers' ignorance and use the weight of live abalone as the number of abalone heads to make huge profits.
Some friends who have eaten abalone may ask, the weight of dried abalone is not low, right? How could it be possible to be over 100 heads
This is because the abalone commonly seen in the Chinese market are the wrinkled abalone, which is of medium size and only grows about 3 cm a year. It is too risky to raise it for two years, and it depends entirely on fate for three years. Therefore, it is rarely used to make dried abalone, and is basically made into sugar-heart abalone.
The cheaper dried abalone is the imported black abalone, with prices ranging from several thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. The more expensive one is the imported net abalone, with prices ranging from tens of thousands of yuan to more than 100,000 yuan. In other words, my country does not originally produce large abalone, so if you want to eat large abalone, you almost have to rely on imports from abroad.
Of course, things are not absolute.
my country also has a world-famous abalone called the Royal Golden Abalone. It is a "distinguished abalone" that embodies the wisdom of scientific research. Its cultivation conditions are extremely harsh.
Each Royal Abalone seedling is carefully selected before being cultivated, scientifically fed with pure natural seaweed, and the water quality is tested throughout the entire logistics network. Only in this way can the survival rate of Royal Abalone be guaranteed to reach 25%.
Royal Golden Abalone is also known as the "tall, rich and handsome" in the farmed abalone world. Its price is even comparable to that of natural abalone. It comes in two types: fresh abalone and dried abalone. Fresh Royal Golden Abalone is two to three times the size of ordinary abalone, and is rich in collagen, with firm and delicate meat.
Most of the commodities on the market are counterfeited, except for the royal abalone, because each royal abalone has its own ID card, which is a real ID card. That ID card records the entire growth cycle of the royal abalone and will not be cancelled until the death of the royal abalone. Its security can be traced back to the birth of the royal abalone.
The dried abalone of Royal Golden Abalone is made by complex craftsmanship. It is also called Royal Golden Dried Abalone. It uses fresh Royal Golden Abalone as raw material and adopts original blanching technology to improve the quality of the abalone itself while shortening the storage time.
Of course, there is also sweet-heart golden abalone.
The "soft-boiled" royal abalone is made from dried abalone rich in collagen. It is cooked in broth over low heat for a long time to enhance the flavor. It is simmered until the center of the abalone is semi-solidified and "soft-boiled". It is soft and slightly sticky when eaten. There was a very popular documentary called "Tip of the Tongue", and the food consultant of "Tip of the Tongue", Mr. Zhang Xinmin, could not forget the wonderful taste and praised it highly.
Of course, even though abalone is no longer just a special product for the royal family, its high price can still deter ordinary diners. As long as ordinary people see the price, they simply can't think of enjoying the ultimate delicacy. Whether it is dried or fresh abalone, the price of royal abalone is ridiculously high.
Xiang Yang didn't know about the existence of the Royal Golden Abalone. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care, because compared with the Royal Golden Abalone, the natural abalone is the essence of the ocean created by the heaven, earth, sun and moon. Even if Xiang Yang had ten Royal Golden Abalone of the same size, he would not be willing to exchange them for one natural abalone.
After putting the natural abalone into the net bag, Xiang Yang swam back to the crew excitedly.
Xiang Yang gestured with his hands, indicating that Chen Qingsheng didn't need to lead the way anymore.
According to Xiang Yang, since an abalone was found nearby, there is no need to go to other places to look for abalone. Everyone can just spread out in all directions with this place as the center to look for abalone.