The ocean is a complex ecological system that has nurtured countless delicacies, most of which we can hear about, but there are also some strange and weird seafood.

When you first see it.

I can't help but associate it with those unpalatable foods, and even produce stomach acid, nausea and vomiting. This is how gooseneck barnacles exist.

And it is difficult to pick. This kind of sea creature only appears in intertidal zones where the drop is relatively high, the waves are strong and the wind is relatively strong.

This kind of place has always been very dangerous, and even fishermen who often travel to the sea do not like this place.

I remember that the BBC filmed a movie called "The Feast of Billions", which introduced this kind of seafood. It also specially filmed some video clips of the bee-picking people risking their lives to pick gooseneck barnacles. It also said that every year, the bee-picking people sacrifice their lives for gooseneck barnacles.

In Western countries, top gooseneck barnacles can be sold for around 300 to 500 euros (about 4,000 yuan) per pound. At a seafood auction in Spain in 2017, the unit price of gooseneck barnacles was sold at a high price of 1,22 euros (about 9,400 yuan) per pound.

Anyway, it's very expensive.

However, this guy is like black gold abalone and Australian lobster. His origin is not in China. Even if he has resources, he is not so easy to get rid of. In addition, picking this guy is indeed very dangerous, so Chen Yang decided not to take this risk because of the reef he just stood on.

It's no longer safe now.

Most of it was flooded by sea water.

The big waves more than two meters high hit the reef, splashing four or five meters of waves, making him feel refreshed when he was three meters away. Faced with such an environment, Chen Yang always had many ideas and dared not stay for too long. After picking two kilograms of barnacles, he quickly evacuated the reef area.

Hey swish swish.

Scrub brush.

Friction, friction!

These are the devil's minions.

After cleaning the accessories on the gooseneck barnacle, Chen Yang took them back to his shelter. For some reason, looking at these extremely ugly seafood, Chen Yang couldn't help swallowing.

I wish I could eat it raw.

This thing can indeed be eaten raw.

It seems that the islanders in District 11 like to eat it raw.

However, Chen Yang temporarily gave up this way of eating.

On an isolated island, Chen Yang felt that he must control his mouth and try not to slap and fight on food. It is best to cook this thing and eat it, otherwise it would be bad. He is not a good person. He has a strong stomach and a whole medical team on standby.

Chen Yang has never eaten the gooseneck barnacle.

But its good brothers, Turtle Foot, and Chen Yang have eaten a lot.

Chen Yang didn't know how Westerners cook, but he felt that the methods of making similar things should not be very different, so he used traditional coastal practices and boiled them directly with sea water.

This method was learned from Lao Chen.

When he was in elementary school.

Their family had not moved to Rongcheng yet and lived in a stone house on the coast. At that time, Lao Chen was still very young, but the people on the beach were dark and it was difficult to associate with the handsome guy. During the holidays, Lao Chen would take him to dig turtle feet together.

At that time, Guizu was still a little-known delicacy. Apart from the fishermen in their area, people from the mainland almost didn’t know about it, and they had never even made it. Seafood buyers rarely bought this type of seafood. Every time Lao Chen would pick a large washbasin.

Then scoop a bucket of clean sea water.

Put it in a large iron pot and heat until it boils.

Sprinkle some spices like bay leaves and pour all the turtle feet in. In fact, it tastes the most tender if you cook for two minutes. However, at that time, Lao Chen often deceived him that children had to cook this food for fifteen minutes before they could eat it, otherwise they would be caught by the big turtle.

As a result, the big turtle has always been the shadow of Chen Yang's childhood.

Every time he approaches the beach.

They will all develop a sense of fear.

When he grew up, Chen Yang understood why many children who live by the sea can't swim and are more afraid of sea water than mainlanders.

I remember when I was a child, many fishermen never came back after going to sea. When the sea gave fishermen gifts, they would occasionally make trouble.

At that time, Old Chen must have been worried that he was not resistant and was afraid that he would eat too raw seafood and would ruin his stomach.

After Chen Yang boiled the sea water, he put all the goose-neck barnacles into the pot. Chen Yang, who had been deceived for many years, had no idea why, but after that, he cooked this kind of thing.

It will definitely not cook for too long. Sometimes it will be picked up in two minutes, and sometimes it will be picked up in less than a minute. This time, Chen Yang cooked it for two minutes and then picked up the gooseneck barnacle.

The hard black shell was quickly peeled off.

A piece of white tender snail meat was revealed, which was the place to eat, and it was also the essence of the gooseneck barnacle. When you break a gooseneck barnacle weighing 50 grams, it may only have 5 grams of meat.

After breaking the barnacles.

Chen Yang cut some chopped green onion, coriander, garlic, and red pepper with a knife, poured light soy sauce and aged vinegar, stirred evenly, and used it as a seasoning.

Of course, eating raw tastes great.

But Chen Yang likes to eat like this.

The white and tender barnacle meat, dipped in sour, sweet and slightly spicy seasoning, was put into the mouth. The barnacle meat is sweet and refreshing, and the sour and sour taste buds seem to bloom, directly stimulating the brain nerves and publishing a delicious signal.

Chen Yang finished eating one.

I couldn't help but get one, just like he ate fried snails. It was difficult for him to explain the taste, as if a mixture of yellow clams and lobsters, and the chewyness was a bit like a razor clam. In addition, this dipping sauce, the ugly it is, the delicious it is.

Chen Yang couldn't stop his hands and mouth.

In less than fifteen minutes.

The two kilograms of gooseneck barnacle were wiped out completely.

Chen Yang, who was still unsatisfied, felt that he could get another three kilograms, but when he looked at the reef area again, the sea water had completely submerged the place, and it was already high tide.

Chen Yang looked at his phone and it was 21:45 Beijing time. He had almost eight hours to come to the island, and there were still two hours and seventeen minutes left before he returned.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone straight towards us, warm.

Chen Yang sat on the edge of the cliff, holding a dog-tail grass in his mouth, looking at the beach dyed red by the sunset. At this time, the sea breeze was gradually getting cooler, and the seabirds outside returned to their nests, chirping at the top of the jungle, which was very noisy.

Chen Yang looked at the rising sea water.

Suddenly I remembered that I would accompany my second son to the beach fishing village tomorrow.

The ground cage and fishing cage were not yet collected, and the tide was almost rising. If you forget it, another tragedy came over the next day. While the sky was still fine, Chen Yang put away the ground cage and fishing cage.

Even if you give these seafood a day off.
Chapter completed!