Chapter 323: The Correct Posture for Opening the Shrimp
"Eh......" crawled out of the stream wet, and as soon as the person came ashore, the strange bird greeted him, as if he had completely forgotten his face when he forced others to fall into the water, and stopped at Chang Zhaowen's email affectionately, and kept sticking his "little white face" to other people's faces, completely ignoring Chang Zhaowen's contemptuous eyes.
On a large reef on the edge of the stream, a relatively flat reef is neatly placed in a row of 5 ripe figs, and at a glance you know that the strange birds are ready to exchange crayfish for "goods".
The pond that caught shrimp through the stream, this time Chang Zhaowen caught not crayfish, but another kind of shrimp - shrimp cricket, which is called by various names in different regions of China: shrimp, pipi shrimp, rich shrimp, pipa shrimp, pipa shrimp, shrimp crawler, official hat shrimp......
It stands to reason that this should be a kind of shrimp living in seawater, and the "shrimp pond" was clearly freshwater when he caught crayfish last time, Momo didn't give much explanation for this situation, it seems that this is also the same as the fishing spot in the heart of the sea thorn, just a passage to different waters.
Before, it was because there were too many crayfish that blocked the passage, so the space could not be changed, and he could only catch crayfish, but last time he caught a large number of crayfish, which opened up the waters in disguise, so that it was possible to catch other kinds of shrimp now.
The shrimp caught were not small, and the length of the large ones was almost as long as his arms, and even the small ones were as long as the palms of his mind.
Chang Zhaowen carefully took out a leather shrimp that was half an arm's length from his bag, with strong thorns on the back of the hard shell, which could easily puncture the skin if he was not careful.
"Help-" The strange bird that saw the shrimp was as excited as if it had been drugged, and jumped off Chang Zhaowen's shoulder and flew towards the shrimp.
The bird's beak is wide open, "click"!
Something embarrassing happened.
The beak of the strange bird is slender and sharp, but it is not a wide beak similar to a cormorant that can devour heaven and earth, and the size of the leather shrimp is not small, the carapace is hard, and the strange bird waving its wings and hovering in the air, pecking at the leather shrimp that Chang Zhaowen held in his hand, and he can't eat it at all.
"Help-" The strange bird suddenly broke out with a fierce scream, it turned out that the skin shrimp seemed to be quite unwilling to be the fate of being reduced to bird food, and launched a counterattack, a pair of explosive big clamps at the head of the strange bird!
The strange bird was caught off guard and fell to the ground with a thud, and seemed to be a little dazed.
The English common name of Phi Phi Shrimp is Mantis Shrimp (Mantis Shrimp), in fact, because the appearance of Pi Phi Shrimp hunting is very close to the praying mantis, there is a saying in China that "the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind", although the praying mantis finally fell into the prey of the yellow finch, but it can also be seen that the praying mantis will first lurk when hunting, and will suddenly make a killing move when the prey is defenseless, and the opponent will be caught off guard.
The reason why the skin shrimp can be called the mantis shrimp is that it hunts in the same way, first with an immobile expression, and then suddenly with a threat. Its explosive power is amazing, and in a natural environment, such a sudden attack can often destroy the nervous system of crabs that also have hard carapaces, killing them with a single blow.
The strange bird lay on the ground for a long time before it came to its senses, and after eating this stuffy loss, it was obviously angry, and flew over again, and launched another stormy attack on Pipi Shrimp.
The sharp beak kept hitting the hard shrimp shell, and under its crazy retaliation, the hard shell on the back of the shrimp was pecked out of a lot of small holes, but the strange bird still failed to take advantage of the slightest advantage, such a small hole, it could not taste the tender shrimp meat at all.
"Okay!" Chang Zhaowen really couldn't stand this interracial farce, he waved his hand to drive away the strange bird that was pecking around, and the Pipi shrimp in his hand had a lot of dense holes on his back at the moment, and he was dying.
Chang Zhaowen shook his head, as a qualified foodie, how can he just have brute strength? Continue to let the strange bird make trouble, and in the end, even if the shrimp is killed, it will not have the ability to eat it in its mouth.
Of course, shrimp still have to be eaten alive, because once the shrimp dies, the histidine in the body is decomposed by bacteria to form a substance that is harmful to health, and the internal organs of the shrimp are very easy to deteriorate.
Chang Zhaowen threw the dying leather shrimp in his hand onto the smooth big stone with the fig, and with a "pop", the huge shrimp body collided with the stone, making a crisp sound.
Pipi Shrimp's back was stressed, and his hard body hit the rock solidly, and he stopped struggling, and he should have passed out.
Special care needs to be taken when handling thorny seafood to avoid puncture wounds as much as possible, because there is a common "Vibrio vulnificus" in the ocean, and if you are stabbed by a marine creature with this bacterium, you can be infected with Vibrio vulnificus. Although the source of his Pipi shrimp this time is special, it should not be such a risk, but in the absence of suitable tools, Chang Zhaowen still chooses to stun the shrimp first to avoid it struggling and scratching the skin, and caution is one of the necessary abilities of an excellent chef.
The strange bird was originally angry about Chang Zhaowen's behavior of driving him away from the enemy, but when he saw Chang Zhaowen directly knocking Pipi Shrimp unconscious, it was bad, and flew to Chang Zhaowen's leg and flatteringly rubbed his body on his leg, and got rid of the dog-legged appearance of "the eldest brother helps the younger brother get angry, and there is someone behind Lao Tzu".
Well, let's take this guy in.
Although this bird cannot be eaten and does not lay eggs, if left unchecked, it will be a trouble to push him into the water every time he encounters him, and to exchange figs for shrimp to eat.
Of course, the strange bird didn't know Chang Zhaowen's plans, and it was still happily waiting to eat shrimp.
Peeling the shell of the Pipi shrimp is definitely a technical job, but how can this be difficult Chang Zhaowen? The two hands grasp the shrimp head and shrimp tail respectively, twist the shrimp head hard, and then turn the shrimp head in the opposite direction with both hands at the same time, twist the shrimp body, count the shrimp shell along the skin shrimp from the head to the fourth section, gently uncover the shell on the side, one hand grasps the front half of the shrimp body, and the other hand pulls the shell slowly down, and soon a complete shrimp shell is peeled off.
The shell of the belly of the skin shrimp is also very easy to remove, first twist the shrimp legs, and lift the shrimp shell from the side of the shrimp body, because the previous repeated twisting has separated the shrimp meat from the shrimp shell, and soon, a piece of crystal clear, full and juicy white shrimp meat will appear completely.
Chang Zhaowen smiled at the strange bird: "It's cheap for you, this time I'll give you skin shrimp sashimi!"
The white of the shrimp meat with a touch of amber color is really coveted, and the thick shrimp paste with red and yellow on the belly of the shrimp is even more attractive, because the shrimp is troublesome to peel, and the whole shrimp body must be kept intact after removing the shell, which is a great test of the chef's level, and few restaurants will make the shrimp sashimi. As everyone knows, this shrimp meat is snow and tender, sweet and dense to eat, and it definitely has a unique flavor when eaten raw as sashimi. It's just that Huaxia's pipi shrimp are mostly produced in the offshore sea, and few people dare to eat them raw due to concerns such as pollution, but he obviously didn't have this problem when he caught this batch of shrimp.
Looking at the plump shrimp meat, the strange bird screamed and flew up, almost without drooling.
But Chang Zhaowen reached out to stop the strange bird and didn't give him a chance to touch the delicious shrimp sashimi, and then, he did an extremely hateful thing - stuffed the plump and juicy fresh shrimp meat directly into the bag containing the reassuring rice......