Yantai Travel: If you want to eat seafood, go to this market for a walk.
The seafood market in Yantai Longkou is by the sea, and seafood cannot be less. The impression of the seafood market is always noisy and chaotic; every time parents go to buy seafood, it's at 5 am to buy fresh seafood; this way, the seafood is freshest; but wandering around the seafood market also requires luck because some seafood is quite expensive and not always available, depending on the weather and whether it's in stock.
When I was a child, I liked to eat seafood but didn't like to visit the seafood market: on the one hand, it's crowded and difficult to walk; on the other hand, the places selling seafood are always wet and slippery, with fish and shrimp sellers wearing waterproof shoes and wearing dirty clothes, so as not to stain them when they return and have to wash them again. Every time I go home after class in junior high school, I have to pass by the seafood market, which is the largest one in our local area. Every time I ride my bicycle past this, I have to slow down to buy seafood; the people who come to buy seafood are really too many, a vast expanse: Yantai Longkou people all love to eat seafood, if you don't visit the seafood market, how can you appease your five internal organs?
In big cities, supermarkets are truly trendy attractions.
There wasn't expected that the seafood market would become a trendy attraction.When studying in Beijing as a university student, I found that everyone was passionate about the market; even TV shows liked to dig into it. The most famous seafood market in Beijing is San Yuan Li, where you often see foreigners bargaining, and there's always a cameraman beside them happily filming; the sellers also don't seem embarrassed, without any performance traces, but they are afraid that the camera will reveal their business license number.
In an orderly big city, the market is the most smoky and atmospheric place; when I have a bad mood, I like to go to the market, looking at the fresh vegetables and crabs with bubbles, I feel much better, as if all my worries have disappeared, just wanting to put them in a pot to eat. I just remembered what Gou Long said:If a person has no way out and wants to jump off the building, let him go to the market.The market has a magical healing power.
The great transformation of Yantai's hometown market
Guess what, the first thing to do when I go home for the Spring Festival is to go to the market, which is an unusual behavior, making my parents and my in-laws confused. The smelly seafood market I used to know is gone; now it has been relocated to Jia Yuan Market, even before entering the car, I can see a neat range of ABCD areas, there are vegetable sellers and seafood sellers; the most interesting is the seafood area: the seafood sellers still wear dirty clothes and wear large sleeves; the difference is that they don't have to squat on the ground anymore.
On the table are stacks of seafood, clean and tidy, large crabs are kept in water and leisurely spit bubbles, some crabs are stretched out and upside down, some fish are dragged out of the water and refuse to give up, struggling to roll over, when someone passes by, they are really shocked!
Lots of fresh seafood, foodies can't move their legs
Yantai's seafood is already abundant, just a circle is like visiting a aquarium, there are sea chives and red algae that are common ingredients, when I go home and cook them, the flavor can support a whole table, if you're afraid of the smell, you can add some cucumbers or spinach for a cold dish, which is also delicious. Sea oysters are stacked here and become a mountain, I saw a stack of it and said, this is not from our local area, our local area doesn't have such a big one!
My parents were excited to see sea intestines, saying it was difficult to see, and when they heard that it cost 60 yuan per catty, they quickly started; now sea intestines are getting more and more expensive, don't look at it unsightly, but Yantai Longkou people know that it's fresh, plus stir-fried with green onions, it can last until a whole night's enjoyment. It was originally possible to grind sea intestines into powder and use them as seasonings. A middle-aged man held a knife to cut sea intestines, because they have thorns on both ends, it's uncomfortable to eat, and besides, the most common sea intestines are pink, and his is black, which is more rare and tastes better but is more expensive.
There is a dried goods area in the seafood area, but the calories are too high, I don't have any interest in it. The whole seafood area takes about 15 minutes to walk, it is spacious and clean, and the layout is clear, without the past chaotic appearance, you can see whatever you want, and it's very comfortable to shop. When leaving, I bought some mushrooms in the vegetable area, which is a wholesale price, and people still look down on us for buying so little.
