Spicy crayfish, fish-flavored crayfish, garlic-flavored crayfish ... I don't know when crayfish climbed onto the table of China people and became "seasonal food" in restaurants in the streets. As a diner, I may not know how many ways crayfish are practiced, but I know that the "pest" that once annoyed the villagers has now become an agricultural and tourism star in Zhonghe Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang, Sichuan.
Crayfish, as the trump card of snack stalls, has a national market scale of over 100 billion, with Chengdu consuming 20 to 30 tons every day, while Yanjiang District in Ziyang consumes at least 2,000 tons of crayfish every year ... From these data, it is enough to reflect the popularity of neutralization crayfish. From breeding to catering, neutralization crayfish has become a delicacy in Ziyang people's hearts.
June 18 is the Dragon Boat Festival. A group of five of us took a shortcut along the country road to Zhonghe. Although the road conditions are similar, it is still much closer.
When I was approaching Zhonghe Town, my eyes suddenly lit up. There are neat farmhouses, unified white walls and red tiles, two-story buildings, willow trees in the shade, and every family has farmhouses. There is even a "Lotus Pond Music" karaoke room. I not only stopped the car, took out my mobile phone and clicked it, but also looked up. Mingyue Village, Zhonghe Town, isn't this Mingyue Village, the crayfish breeding base?
In recent two years, the booming crayfish industry has accelerated the development of aquaculture. In 20 15, Zhonghe Town developed characteristic industries to get rid of poverty and become rich. The whole town 18 villages jumped out of the thinking mode of making money only by planting crops and planted crayfish instead. The breeding scale has exceeded 5,000 mu, and the annual output has exceeded 1000 tons, forming a three-dimensional agricultural industrial development model of "citrus on the mountain and lobster in the water".
Farmer Wu Yong has caught up with the tide of crayfish breeding. Last year, under his leadership, many farmers in long hu cun 10 in Zhonghe Town set up the Chen Yu Fisheries Professional Cooperative. "Last year, the purchase price of crayfish was more than 40 yuan, and the annual income of 60 mu shrimp pond was more than 200,000 yuan." Wu Yong said happily.
By developing crayfish breeding industry, Zhonghe Town sold its own crayfish to Zhonghe catering industry, ziyang and Chengdu markets, and more than 0 poor households in Zhonghe Town 10 were lifted out of poverty ahead of schedule. Some farmers can increase the income of crayfish by 30 thousand yuan a year, and the integrated pattern of crayfish production and marketing with Zhonghe Town as the core is gradually taking shape.
Breeding is only the beginning of the brand of "Zhonghe crayfish" in Zhonghe Town. In order to better promote the "trump card" of crayfish, Zhonghe Town played the golden signboard of "Lobster Festival" in the mode of "Festival".
Last year, the first Ziyang Zhonghe Crayfish Food Festival set five "historical highs" in Zhonghe Town in terms of passenger flow, traffic volume, consumption, attention and influence during the festival. According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 6,543.8+0.2 million tourists and diners during the food festival, and more than 60,000 people on the opening day alone, and the total consumption exceeded 6,543.8+0.6 million yuan, including more than 26,000 kilograms of crayfish, and the sales exceeded 900,000 yuan, all of which were about 6,543.8+0.3 times of the usual holidays.
Now, with the help of the "Lobster Festival", Zhonghe Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang has embarked on a new development path of "making something out of nothing" and accumulated fame, popularity, business spirit and wealth for this previously unknown town.
Walking into the activity site of the north-south main road of Zhonghe Industrial Park, you can feel the lively atmosphere. Many local and foreign delicious mouths drive to the event site, and the parked vehicles stretch for thousands of meters, and the event site is crowded with people. I have been to China several times, and every time I come, I always lament the changes in Zhonghe Town. Since the opening of the Zhonghe toll station of Suizi-Meizhou Expressway and the construction of Zhonghe Industrial Park, the spacious and straight asphalt roads in the industrial park extend in all directions, with trees and factories.
Rows of green tents attract attention, and merchants try their best: some cover them with foam filled with vegetables and put lobsters in various patterns to attract guests; Some cooked lobsters are for anyone to taste; There is also a discount promotion. You can get one catty if you eat three catties. In front of every household, a large basin of fresh lobster bares its teeth.
We walked around the lobster festival, our legs were weak and our eyes were blurred. Suddenly at the crossroads, a stall selling May sad tofu came into view. "I want to eat cold cakes. I haven't eaten them for many years." Looking at the crystal-clear cake, I shouted at the shopkeeper.
"Oh, sad bean jelly! Come to a bowl, I am really sad! " Colleague beauty Xiaozhen exclaimed in surprise. "I'm sad when I'm numb and spicy, and I'm sad when tears come out!" We made fun of her.
A bowl of cold cakes, soft and delicate, melts in the mouth, with yellow sugar, peanuts and sesame seeds, is sweet and refreshing, just like when my grandfather took me to the street to eat when I was a child, as if I found the taste of childhood at once.
Xiaozhen's bean jelly is served, white and thin with onion, ginger and garlic, and spicy oil is evenly coated on it, which is bright in white and has an appetite at a glance.
Xiaozhen took a bite and said, "Well, it's delicious, it's delicious!" Then sweat seeped from the tip of the nose and tears came out.
"Xiao Zhen is really sad!" We laughed.
Xiaozhen also smiled and casually said, "Eat bean jelly during the Dragon Boat Festival. Your true feelings are in the powder, and my love is in the powder. So lingering, so intoxicated, I shed sad tears. "
Just after eating bean jelly, the gorgeous stage over there moved. With a handsome CCTV guy presiding over fluent and standard Mandarin, Ziyang Station, the national sea election of CCTV Happiness Act, kicked off. First, CCTV brought great songs and dances to the audience, and then several aunts performed on stage. Although their talents are not very good, their courage is commendable. Subsequently, cycling performance, dance, solo dance and allegro wheel were performed on the stage. Ziyang players showed the talents and talents of Ziyang people in various forms, and won unanimous praise from the judges and teachers and warm applause from the audience.
"You go up and sing and try to reimburse the bill for eating lobster today." With the encouragement of friends, tourists from ziyang temporarily signed up to sing two songs, which won the promotion affirmation of two teachers among the three judges.
At the end of the sea election, as night falls, people are already crowded under the awning, and spicy, garlic, salt and pepper, thirteen incense and braised oil are filled with endless aftertaste. We finally found a lobster restaurant at home and in the local area and sat down. After a while, a plate of colorful and delicious lobster was served.
It is said that there are four catering service units specializing in crayfish sales in Zhonghechang Town, and the most famous one is Zhonghe Xinyuan Hotel. The daily crayfish sales range from 600 to 800 Jin, and the holiday sales can exceed 1000 Jin. Secondly, the average daily sales of Zhonghe Shu Ren Cooked Lobster Restaurant, Lotus Pond Moonlight Farmhouse and Two Tree Fried Lobster Restaurant are hundreds of kilograms, and restaurants have become the main positions for crayfish cooked food consumption.
I picked up a big lobster and opened it, and the fresh and tender shrimp meat was exposed. I ate it in my mouth, it was tender, spicy and delicious, which made me want to stop, and I couldn't wait to catch another one.
Beer and crayfish were added on the night of the Dragon Boat Festival, and we fried the Dragon Boat Festival and lobster together.