Chapter 605: Large purchase of seafood

Early in the morning of the next day, Xiao Peng came to the fishery exhibition located in the Magic New International Expo Center. The scale of this fishery exhibition is still very large. Halls W1-W5 are all fishery exhibition exhibition sites.
Xiao Peng also saw the booth of Sihai Fishery, in Hall W2, where is the Aquatic Seafood in the International Hall. Feng Jianting and the two are still decent, a huge booth.
It's really not cheap here. It costs more than 2,000 yuan per square meter. All chairs and tables must be leased, so this is also the time to reflect the company's strength. Feng Jianting and a group of salespeople in suits and shoes are distributing promotional materials there. A look of serious work.
Xiao Peng didn't say hello to them either, but wandered around by himself, whether it was in Hall W1 or Hall W2. That was Xiao Peng's purpose to find new types of seafood for Qianliyan. Before taking a few steps, Xiao Peng first came across the target seafood he was interested in: Pacific Mud Clams.
This name is a bit confusing, and many people may not be familiar with it, but its other name is very famous: Geoduck!
Speaking of geoduck, many people are familiar with it. Many kinds of bivalve shellfish can be commonly called geoduck. Among them, the most common one is also the largest type, which is the subclamidae, which is most familiar to Chinese people. Yes, it is Pacific Mud Clams. Many people watching the Pacific Mud Clam, first of all sigh for its dirty appearance: it looks too much like a man's stuff. But although it looks like a man, it belongs to the goddess clam, so it also has a wonderful Chinese name, called "the elegant goddess clam"-this means that goddesses are inseparable from the stuff of men What? ? ?
The Pacific mud clam, native to the coast of Vancouver, Canada, is the largest known burrowing mud-dwelling bivalve shellfish. The shell is about 20 cm long, but its siphon can be extended to more than one meter! And this fat and thick ‘big stick’ is also the most important edible part. A geoduck can grow up to more than four kilograms!
Geoduck likes to inhabit the sandy sea bottom or intertidal zone. It can bury itself in the sand at a depth of one meter and feed by sticking out a thick siphon. Because the feet of the elephant trunk are highly degraded, once Take root, you will never move again after adulthood. Moreover, the reproductive power of geoduck is extremely strong, the individual can lay eggs up to 10 million, and the life span is very long, usually up to a hundred years! The grown-up geoduck has almost no natural enemies, but even so, the market price of geoduck remains high. Several hundred yuan per catty. The reason for this is that it is not easy to catch a geoduck, which is really personal work.
After all, the geoduck is deeply buried under the sand. To capture the geoduck, you need to use a high-pressure-water gun to flush the one-meter thick sand above the geoduck until the geoduck is dug out. Geoduck on the bottom of the sea, all this must be done in the diving state! Moreover, after divers catch the geoduck underwater, they will put it in their portable net bag. Because the shell of the geoduck is very thin, the number of geoduck caught in the sea each time is limited to prevent crushing the geoduck. The outer shell, which further increases fishing costs.
Speaking of this, I have to mention the omnipotent Chinese foodies. The earliest Pacific mud clams lived in North America, and local residents didn't like or knew how to eat this strange-looking shellfish. I don’t know when, Asians have fallen in love with this shellfish. In the following 30 years, Asian countries led by Japan, Plastic Surgery, and China have fished in large quantities for eating geoduck. Now wild elephants along the North Pacific coast Duck mussels are on the verge of extinction.
But fortunately, the basic logic of the foodies is to start farming as soon as the wild ones are caught. Nowadays, the cultivation technology of ivory mussels has become more perfect. There are two main types of geoduck farming: intertidal and subtidal. The interzone breeding density is relatively high and the growth rate is fast, so most of them adopt this method. However, this method is harmful to the marine environment, so some countries are banned. Sub-tidal aquaculture is more like a supplement to natural resources. The seedlings of geoduck can be sown in waters that allow fishing, which is similar to wild ivory, but the fishing difficulty is much higher than that of intertidal aquaculture! Increased breeding costs.
And Xiao Peng wanted to use this method to put seedlings in the Qianliyan fishery.
In China and Japan, the most common one is not the Pacific mud clam, but the plastic surgery country. This kind of mud clam looks very similar to the Pacific mud clam, but it is much smaller and has a high yield. At present, the common geoduck in China and the country is actually this kind, and the geoduck produced in the country is only available for domestic use. For sale. However, whether plastic surgery or Waguo mud clams, they are smaller than the real Pacific mud clams!
However, because of the fact that Waguo's submerged mud clams are not sold to the outside world, Xiao Peng also wants to raise the geoduck in Qianliyan. Isn't your Waguo cattle X and not selling geoduck? When Lao Tzu is up, the best geoduck is in Huaxia, and you ask us to buy it. It depends on our mood. If we don't sell it to you, we won't sell it to you! You bite me!
Not only the ivory clam, Xiao Peng's favorite seafood is horse dung sea urchin. Although Qianliyan originally had horse dung sea urchin, but the number was not large, he just got another batch of seedlings to put back.
Sea urchins are an ancient species. They have survived for hundreds of millions of years. They can survive to this day, perhaps because of their diversity, they are widely distributed in oceans all over the world! They can be found in shallow seas to deep seas. This horse dung sea urchin is a small sea urchin, only five or six centimeters in size. The surface is densely covered with spines that are five to six millimeters long, most of which are dark green, but also off-white and russet. In short, looking at it from a distance, it looks like a pile of dried horse dung, hence the name.
However, the meaning of the name horse dung sea urchin in Latin means ‘most beautiful’. I don’t know if it is a matter of aesthetic difference between the East and the West.
The name of the horse dung sea urchin is ugly, but its sea urchin yellow is fascinating. The touch and surging taste of the tip of the tongue is really indescribable. But what people might not think of is that the sea urchin yellow that people usually eat is actually the genital-gland of sea urchin. Therefore, both male and female sea urchins have golden and attractive sea urchin yellow during the breeding season. So they are all delicious. Xiao Peng also saw several other kinds of sea urchins, such as sea urchin Ezo dung and sea echinococcus from Wa country, and sea urchin red.
However, Xiao Peng only chose horse dung sea urchin and red sea urchin in the end. Ezo dung sea urchins grow better in cold waters. Echinococcus sea urchin is indeed a good sea urchin. There are many breeding in Dalian, but Xiao Peng does not want to put this kind of sea urchin in Qianliyan. The distance is very simple and the spines are too long! That is simply a diver’s nightmare. Xiao Peng will not go to cages. With this thing in the future, it will make it more difficult to catch geoduck. The red sea urchin is a smaller sea urchin, which is yellow and thin. It is flat, but the taste is very rich and sweet.
However, the production of red sea urchins has always been a problem, which is why most farmers do not consider red sea urchins. Low production naturally means low profits. Xiao Peng didn't worry about this. With the big killer ‘Lizhongwu’ and the abundant food in the Qianliyan Sea Area, would he still be afraid that the production of this red sea urchin would not increase?
Xiao Peng also thought about introducing clams. After all, the clams, which are known as the most fresh in the world, are extremely delicious. The clam sushi that he had eaten at Ono Jiro's made Xiao Peng never forget. But considering that clam farming has become too large-scale, and northerners prefer to eat clams, and Xiao Peng has decided to introduce geoduck, let's forget about clams. . . . . .
However, Xiao Peng also found a better seafood: sea cucumber! To be precise, it is imitation sea cucumber.
Since ancient times, sea cucumbers have been one of the favorite seafood of Chinese people. Known as one of the ‘eight treasures of seafood’. There are more than 1,000 kinds of sea cucumbers in the world, with various shapes and rich colors. They can be found in various sea areas. In terms of appearance, they can be roughly divided into two kinds of sea cucumbers. One is the smooth back surface and is called light ginseng. Those with spines on their backs are called sea cucumbers.
The imitation sea cucumber is the "stichopus japonicus" in everyone's mouth. In China, the imitation sea cucumbers produced in Dalian and Yantai are famous.
Don't look at the imitation sea cucumber with the word ‘imitation’, you feel that it is a counterfeit, it is almost the most mainstream edible sea cucumber on the market. Known as the ‘Crest among the Ginseng’, it is highly sought after by diners.
In the past, it was not easy for ordinary people to want to eat imitation sea cucumbers in their homes. In addition to their worth being raised by hype, their own delicateness is also one of the important reasons. After imitation sea cucumbers leave the sea, the phenomenon of skinning will slowly occur within a few small things. That is, "autolysis", and finally becomes a pool of glue, which is caused by the autolysing enzyme in the imitation sea cucumber. In order to preserve the ginseng body, fishermen often add salt and dry it to work to prevent its self-dissolution. So if you want to eat fresh imitation sea cucumbers, you can only find them in the north. But now Baodao and Fujian have overcome this problem and successfully reproduced sea cucumbers with low-temperature seawater. The large-scale imitation sea cucumber farming industry gradually makes imitation sea cucumbers enter the tables of thousands of households.
However, whether it is dried or fresh, imitation sea cucumbers are delicious or not, it all depends on cooking skills. Because the imitation sea cucumber itself has no taste, it has a fishy smell. When firing, you must also master the heat, and be responsible for the taste like chewing wax. Many people think that sea cucumbers are not tasty. In fact, the reason is not the sea cucumber itself, but the chef's cooking level-good cooking skills are delicious, and poor cooking skills are a plate of rubber.
The representative work of Shandong cuisine, grilled sea cucumber with green onion, solves this problem well: the sea cucumber is opened up, cut into ginseng strips, blanched in chicken broth, stir-fried with green onion, then add cooking wine and soy sauce, pour it into the stock and simmer. Finally, thicken the pot, which can be said to be the best way to eat sea cucumbers. Although it destroys the nutrition of sea cucumbers to a certain extent, it can make the taste of sea cucumbers more delicious.
After walking around, they caught Xiao Peng’s eyes. Xiao Peng just wanted to talk to them about buying seedlings, but found that there was a Canadian manufacturer next to him. The logo on the field looked familiar, Xiao Peng recalled. After a long time, I remembered: Wharton Fisheries! Nelson's fishing company! They also participated in this fishery exhibition!
Xiao Peng became interested, and went up to get a copy of promotional materials. Unexpectedly, the main product of Wharton Fisheries is very suitable for Xiao Peng to feed, it turned out to be Boston lobster, that is, Maine lobster! Qianliyan only has splendid lobster, and one more Boston lobster is not bad.
It's funny to say. Although the name of Boston lobster is lobster, it is not lobster, but crayfish. It looks the same as the crayfish we usually eat, with two big lobsters, and real lobsters don't have those big lobsters. But in the eyes of many Chinese people, this kind of lobster that grows up is the real lobster. The real lobster is not considered authentic lobster. . . . . .
In fact, the meat quality of the two is still very different. The lobster meat is much more tender than the crayfish, but the meat in the two large tongs of the crayfish is incomparable to the lobster meat. Say each has its own strengths.
The Boston lobster is a big guy, generally over fifty centimeters in length, and the biggest one weighs 20 kilograms! It is one meter long from the tail to the tip of Daao.
It is worth mentioning that although the name is Boston Lobster, Boston almost does not produce lobster. The real lobster producers are Maine in Star-Tangled Country and Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, so the real name should be Maine Lobster. It is called Boston Lobster because Boston used to be the largest trading market for this Maine Lobster, hence the name.
Xiao Peng was overjoyed when he saw the Boston Lobster. Call a staff member: "Hello, do you offer Boston lobster fry?"
The staff is a foreign young man, but Bei Liu said in Huaxia: "Sir, of course we provide lobster fry. The minimum order is 500,000 shrimp fry, and the shipping fee is 1.7 US dollars each."
Xiao Peng has the final say, although the price is a bit expensive, it is acceptable: "Is this price still negotiable?"
When the young man heard that there was business, his eyes brightened: "Sir, the quality of the seedlings of our Wharton Fisheries is first-rate, especially healthy. The survival rate of seedlings transportation is over 80%. This is a terrible number. It is definitely a wise choice to introduce to your fishery. A lot of wealth is beckoning to you, isn't it?"
Xiao Peng doesn't care about money, but if Huaxia people do business and don't bargain, then they are not Huaxia people. Xiao Peng thought for a while: "If I have more demand, will the price be favorable?"
After hearing this, the young man thought a little: "I don't know how much Mister needs?"
Xiao Peng just wanted to answer, but he heard someone next to him say: "No matter how much you want, we will not sell you. We at Wharton Fisheries will not sell you a lobster seedling!"
"En?" Xiao Peng frowned and looked at the visitor. I saw a blond man standing behind him, but he looked a little familiar. Xiao Peng glanced at his breastplate and his name was written: "Kant Wharton". This is Nelson's brother?