Chen Qingsheng did not go to make fish meal immediately. He asked Xiang Yang, "What about the remaining catch?"
Xiang Yang thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry about the horsehead fish. It's a fish that sells very well in the market. We can just sell it when we dock. Smoke the cuttlefish into dried cuttlefish, and leave half of the squid for the bighead, two-head, and tiger-head as snacks, and make the rest into squid flowers."
"Yes, Captain."
Chen Qingsheng quickly led people to work in the cabin.
The processing lines on ocean-going fishing vessels are all fully automated assembly lines, so there is no problem of not knowing how to use them.
Soon, Xiang Yang heard the roar of machines, obviously Chen Qingsheng and his team had started working.
soon.
Chen Qingsheng ran out with two large bowls in each hand, "Captain, Boss Zhang, please try it. I cooked it myself."
Xiang Yang took the bowl of fish noodles, looked at the milky fish soup inside, then looked at the golden fried egg in the middle of the milky fish soup, and then looked at the sesame and chili oil poured on the egg, and his appetite was immediately whetted.
However, Xiang Yang did not start eating right away. Instead, he asked, "Just two bowls? How about yours?"
Chen Qingsheng rubbed his hands and said, "The noodles are already cooked, and I'm frying the eggs one by one. Captain, you and Boss Zhang can try it first to see if it suits your taste. Do you want to add any more seasoning or something?"
"Wow." Zhang Qicheng exclaimed, "It seems like you want me to taste the poison. Okay, I'll take a bite first."
As he spoke, Zhang Qicheng stirred the bowl a few times with chopsticks, put the egg under the vermicelli, mixed the chili oil evenly, and then picked up some fine vermicelli from the bowl and put it into his mouth.
Chen Qingsheng looked at him quickly, "Boss Zhang, how does it taste?"
Zhang Qicheng buried his head in eating noodles, without even looking up, and said, "I don't care whether it tastes good or not. You have to ask your boss whether it tastes good or not. He's the one who pays you."
"Uh." Chen Qingsheng made a sound.
Xiang Yang smiled. He of course knew that Zhang Qicheng was joking. That was Zhang Qicheng's personality, humorous and straightforward, and he had the capital to be straightforward.
"Let me try it too." Xiang Yang took a sip of the fish soup first, and his eyes immediately lit up.
fresh.
So fresh.
My tongue is so tender.
No wonder Chen Qingsheng took one bite and then didn’t even raise his head.
Xiang Yang quickly took a bite of the rice noodles. "Delicious, this tastes amazing, authentic cross-bridge rice noodles, with a fresh and strong seafood flavor, and the spicy oil, one bite made me sweat."
"That's because Captain, you can't eat spicy food. Captain, give me your bowl and I'll go change it for you." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
"Don't." Xiang Yang said quickly: "If you don't eat chili peppers when eating fish meal, what else can you eat? I want this taste, spicy and satisfying."
"Okay, stop standing here and go eat. Everyone go into the restaurant. Lunch is ready." Xiang Yang shouted.
The crew members had been waiting for Xiang Yang to say this.
As soon as they heard Xiang Yang say that they could go to the restaurant, they rushed to the cabin.
It’s not that the crew members have never eaten good food, but they are fighting for a bowl of fish meal.
It was because the fish meal made from grouper was so fresh and fragrant that the aroma filled the entire deck, and even the Steller's sea eagles and killer whales kept looking over here.
Zhang Qicheng finished eating the rice noodles and then took a big sip of the fish soup.
He touched his sweaty forehead with his sleeve, turned his head and looked at Xiang Yang and said, "Brother Xiang, your first mate is not bad. He is good enough to be a chef in a five-star hotel."
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "Old Chen's cooking skills are good, but it would be an exaggeration to say that he has the skills to cook in a five-star hotel. The main reason why this bowl of fish noodles has such a taste is because of the good ingredients."
Zhang Qicheng nodded.
He has eaten fish meal many times. Given his status, fish meal is naturally the best raw material every time he goes to eat it.
But fish meal, as a delicacy, is not as symbolic as longevity noodles, and is not like those precious delicacies that can be served on the tables of big hotels. The best fish meal material is fish meal made from some fresh small fish, shrimp or fish fillets. There is no fish meal shop that uses fresh wild grouper meat to make fish meal.
"Give me some of this fish meal later and you can set the price," said Zhang Qicheng.
"No problem. I guess three groupers are not enough for me to have several meals. I'll keep half of the remaining fish meal for my breakfast, and give the rest to you. No need to pay for it, it's a gift for you." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Zhang Qicheng nodded. He didn't bother to be polite with Xiang Yang. Given their status, they really didn't want to talk about business worth just a few dozen dollars.
"I'll customize a batch of high-end fish meal from you. You get me some crab roe, lobster and shrimp meat, and some high-quality sea fish, and discard the fish scales, gills and bones, and make a batch of fish meal. I'll buy it from you at the market price of the raw materials. Is that okay with you?" Zhang Qicheng asked.
Xiang Yang raised his eyebrows. "It's easier to find high-quality fish, like crab roe and lobster meat. Are these sold separately in the market?"
As far as Xiang Yang knows, there are almost no crab roe sold alone in the market.
There are some people selling shrimps, but they are all small crayfish. Almost no one sells large lobsters.
"It's calculated based on how much raw materials you consumed, such as crabs and lobsters. I'll calculate the weight based on how much you consumed. For example, a crab is half a pound, and if you take out some crab roe from it, I'll count it as half a pound of hairy crab," said Zhang Qicheng.
Xiang Yang thought about it briefly.
In this way, Zhang Qicheng purchased the fish he caught at the market price and asked him to process it for free.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Many of Xiang Yang's future catches will need to be processed, because most of the catches need to be processed before they can be stored for a longer time. Even if Zhang Qicheng did not mention this matter, Xiang Yang himself would process most of the catches into fish meal, fish balls, canned fish, etc.
The most important thing is that Xiang Yang was tempted by the price offered by Zhang Qicheng.
The market price is much higher than the purchase price.
The seafood market is very complicated. From the hands of fishermen to wholesalers, and then to the seafood market, there are several layers of transportation costs and preservation costs between the purchase price and the market price, as well as the difference earned by middlemen.
"I wonder how much goods you want, Brother Zhang. Are you planning to consume them yourself or expand your business?" Xiang Yang asked.
Zhang Qicheng grinned, "If the quantity you supply is small, then I will eat it myself. If the quantity you supply is sufficient, then I may be able to expand my business."
Xiang Yang was overjoyed when he heard this. "Okay, Brother Zhang, your words are enough. I will give priority to processing fish meal in the future."