Chapter 39 Yellow River estuary clams

Meretrix clams are produced in many sea areas. It is said that only the clams in the Yellow River Estuary are the freshest, and the export volume is also the largest. This kind of clam with brown markings on the shell is twice the size of the thumbnail. The natives of the Yellow River Estuary call it Meretrix meretrix. Striped white clams are called white clams. I have seen clam collectors on the Gudong sea near the mouth of the Yellow River. They walk in the chest-high sea water, which is salty, so the skin of the fishermen is the color of sauce. Is this due to the pickling effect?What I saw a lot that day were white clams, bagged white clams with mesh, forming a white embankment.Asking price, one yuan RMB three catties, this is wholesale.I took a few photos, but no clams.

Clams are hard-shelled molluscs that grow in both sea and fresh water.In the past, they mainly ate freshwater clams. Freshwater is not called clams, but mussels or shellfish.There is a famous saying that the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit. In fact, this kind of thing is similar to waiting for the rabbit. It is rare for three generations. If a fisherman wants to get this profit, it is more difficult than sailing across the Pacific Ocean in a canoe, because the snipe and the clam do not always compete. . Meretrix meretrix is ​​mainly eaten by boiling.Before eating Meretrix meretrix, it must be kept in clear water and salted so that it can spit out the sediment in its abdomen.After cleansing, boil it in clear water, add a little salt, or directly dip it in the prepared seasoning.Seasonings include Zhimeizhai soy sauce, Zhenjiang vinegar, sesame oil, minced garlic, chopped green onion, shredded ginger, etc. The meat of meretrix meretrix is ​​soft and tender, and there is umami water in the abdomen.You should drink white wine when eating clams, because you must drink clam soup.The freshness of the clam soup is unrivaled. The soup is the color of egg white, and there is steam curling up. Eating meat and drinking soup, forgetting all the world, is enough to immerse your life in the realm of food.

Meretrix meretrix can also be simply made into soup.Clean the clams, scald them with boiling water, unfold the shells, take out the meat, put them in a porcelain bowl and stir them with bamboo and wooden chopsticks to make the sand out of the body, and then settle them, the sand will accumulate on the bottom of the bowl, and cook the clams with the soup The meat is put into small dough balls, served with green onion and ginger, boiled into milk soup, steamed buns with white noodles, or layered cakes, all of which are optional.I have been drinking this kind of soup in Kenli, and my heart will rise leisurely, and the sky will be very clear on days when there is no oily turbidity.

Clams can also be fried. Heat up a pot of salad oil, put them in the clam pot, stir-fry, add dried red pepper, shredded ginger, green onion, peppercorns and refined salt, and then serve.To eat stir-fried clams, you have to suck the shells, and then eat the meat. The aroma of frying and the clam meat, which is slightly older than cooking, tastes full of toughness, and the spicy taste eliminates the fishy smell without losing its freshness.Most local people in the Yellow River Estuary do not fry meretrix meretrix, they only fry white clams. They probably think it is a pity to fry meretrix meretrix.

According to my estimation, although there are also clams in waters other than the Yellow River Estuary, the ethnic composition of those clams may be different from those in the Yellow River Estuary. Some marine farmers in other provinces buy small Meretrix meretrix at the Yellow River Estuary and move them to other provinces. Raise it strong, and then sell it overseas.The unique species of meretrix meretrix in the Yellow River estuary has different qualities. The clam in the Yellow River estuary, which has relied on the rich nutrients of the Loess Plateau alluvial by the Yellow River for hundreds of millions of years, is like a rich family's daughter, with excellent taste and temperament. Clams stand alone, forming a single shell, so not eating clams is not enough to say that you have tasted seafood. It is exactly the same as the Yellow River crab in Yongan Township, Kenli County.

It is also a great fortune in life that I started to inspect the Yellow River on May 28, 2000, and got the beautiful meretrix meretrix at the mouth of the Yellow River. I have never passed by it.