Seafood is the best feedback for every friend who comes from afar, but the seafood in the tourism market is often chaotic. We put a lot of thought into writing the anti-massacre strategy, hoping to bring some help to our friends. Let your trip to Sanya be thick and smooth.
First seafood market
The first seafood market in Sanya is one of the oldest, most popular, most famous, richest and cheapest seafood markets in Sanya. It is located in the center of Sanya, close to Haitian Feast Port and International Shopping Center. 8 kilometers from high-speed railway station, 30 minutes by taxi and 45 minutes by bus; It's 0/6 km from Phoenix Airport/KLOC-,40 minutes by taxi and 70 minutes by bus. It's only 3 minutes' walk from here to Sanya River and 15 minutes' walk to see Sanya Bay. Take a taxi to Luhuitou 10 minutes, to Coconut Dream Corridor for 20 minutes, and to Eternal Love 18 minutes. It is 4 kilometers from Dadonghai and 25 kilometers from Yalong Bay. Moreover, almost all the famous restaurants in Sanya are in the 3 km business circle of the first market. Therefore, the first market is almost the punching point of Sanya tourism. So we set the first choice to buy seafood here, and share with you the practical skills of buying seafood here.
The main entrance of the first market, few people during the day.
means of transportation
Back to the first market, no matter where you are, I suggest three modes of transportation.
1. Public transportation: use the navigation software on your mobile phone to navigate the "First Market", choose the public transportation mode, and then take the bus according to the navigation information.
Advantages: cheap, you can see the streets of Sanya.
Disadvantages: it takes a long time and some places need to change trains.
2. Didi: WeChat or mobile phone takes a taxi with Didi and enters the first market. PS: Try not to take a taxi. Some taxi drivers will take you to restaurants with kickbacks, but they won't drip.
Advantages: Convenient.
Disadvantages: expensive.
3. Rent a car/drive: Just obey the traffic rules, watch the navigation and drive carefully. It is suggested to navigate directly to the "International Shopping Center", where there is always an underground parking space, 300 meters away from the first market.
Advantages: freedom.
Disadvantages: need to park in the parking lot.
Attached below is a navigation map around the first market.
This is the navigation map around the first market. There are instructions on buses, parking lots and taxis.
Seafood classification
The market has been chosen, but you need to know before buying seafood. In order to help you better understand seafood, let's classify seafood first, which is convenient for you to remember.
First of all, there are four main courses of seafood: fish, shrimp, crab and lobster.
Then there are shellfish suitable for steaming and snails suitable for boiling and frying.
Finally, there are boneless and other categories. A ***8 categories, I will introduce them one by one below.
When introducing seafood, the approximate price of the last month will be written for your reference. Because typhoon weather will affect the price of seafood the next day, the price will fluctuate occasionally, but the difference is not big. In the next two months, when the overall price changes, I will come back to modify it. You can collect this strategy or pay attention to it.
The dry goods area is on the right side of the entrance, the fruit area is at the main entrance and the seafood area is on the right side.
After entering the site, determine the position of the fair scale through the navigation chart, so as to go to the fair scale for re-weighing when necessary.
This is a simple navigation map inside the first market, which standardizes the position of the door and the position of the fair scale.
No. 1- lobster
There are three main kinds of lobsters in the first market, Boston lobster (Australian lobster), green lobster and flower lobster. Boston lobster is the best seller, Bolong, 1 kg or so, 100 yuan can be bought, suitable for main dishes, can be steamed or fried; Green lobsters are generally smaller, weighing more than half a catty. But the shell is less and the meat is more, and the price is a little more expensive than Bolong, which is suitable for steaming; Flower dragons are generally more than two kilograms, which is more expensive and suitable for friends who don't consider the price factor.
If you want to eat bigger lobster, it is recommended to buy two to three pounds of Bolong, the price is only about 300 yuan.
You can also buy a Bolong with a weight of about 1 kg. Recently, the price of lobster is low, and 90 yuan can handle it.
You can also buy an 8-catty little dragon and a half-catty little dragon, and the total price of both is about 150 yuan.
Only lobsters under 1 kg are sold. After negotiating the price, just pick a lively and slightly larger lobster.
The difference between Bolong and Qinglong mainly depends on whether there are big pliers.
Point: the point of picking lobsters is to pick life and death. The way to judge is to look at it, its vitality is slightly worse, and its meat quality will be slightly worse. The second is to look at the tail to judge that there is more meat and less meat, and the shell is more meat and less meat.
PS: Some merchants in the market will call Bolong Australian Lobster. This is just a marketing tool. Never mind, just know the Bolong you bought. Otherwise, when you go back to the mainland, you will tell your friend Aolong 100 in Sanya, which will only be considered as bragging, because Aolong is very expensive.
These two lobsters are about a catty, but the same shell is very big and deep, so there is less meat, and the other one is just the opposite.
Second place-Xia
The best-selling shrimp is Neoprawn, also known as sea shrimp.
Simply put, it is the kind of shrimp that people often eat in their hometown or everywhere. This kind of shrimp is cultured in the coastal area, so it is called Neopenaeus monodon. But don't mistake farming for bad, because as long as it's not wild, it's all farmed. The chickens, ducks and geese we eat every day are also farmed.
Prawn with knife forehead is suitable for cooking rice or stir-frying with salt and pepper, and the price is affordable, about a catty in 30 yuan.
This is a common prawn with a knife forehead. Some black parts on the head are called blackheads, which are actually undigested feed in the breeding process.
Then there are the more expensive spotted shrimp and bamboo tube shrimp. Compared with Penaeus monodon, it will be bigger and its meat quality will be more elastic. The two kinds of shrimp are actually the same kind of shrimp, but one is for farming and the other is for wild use. The price of breeding is generally around 60 yuan, and that of wild animals is around 120 yuan.
Penaeus monodon is also called grass shrimp and grass shrimp. The head has two sharp corners, and the whole body is black, which is used for breeding.
The way to distinguish mainly depends on the color, the breeding is black, and the wild is color. You can boil it in water, stir fry it, salt and pepper it, or steam it with garlic.
Slub shrimp, also known as flower shrimp, is similar in shape to spotted shrimp, but colorful and belongs to wild shrimp.
Tiger shrimp, also known as prawn, is very big, with big eyes and sharp head, which easily hurts hands.
There is also a tiger shrimp, also called prawn. Very big, about a catty in 200 yuan, suitable for steaming garlic.
Key points: choose shrimp first, because there are dozens of shrimps in a catty, so it is impossible to choose only one. So all you have to do is stir it and see if there are any lively shrimps.
PS: It is very easy to accumulate a lot of seawater when weighing shrimp, so when weighing shrimp, you must break a hole in the bottom of the bag and filter it for a while.
Comparison between tiger shrimp head and finger.
Third place-Xie
Crab, the first four famous dishes in Hainan, Le and Crab. Lehe crab is mainly produced in Lehe Town, Wanning City. Although it is also produced in Guangdong, Fujian and other places, compared with this kind of music and crab produced in the small sea on the east coast of Lehe Town, its oil and taste are inferior.
Xiaole and crab, full of cream.
There are many ways to do music and crabs. I recommend two more practical ways.
One is to buy Xiaole and crab, 232 1 Xiaole and crab, full of cream, and the price is one in 20 yuan. Buy three or four fried ones.
The other is to buy Dahele crab, a 782, about a catty of 80 yuan, and buy a half-paste, which can be fried, steamed or made into a crab paste vermicelli pot.
On the one hand, the reason for eating Le and Crab is that it is one of the four famous dishes in Hainan. On the other hand, it has a lot of cream.
Xiaole and crab, about four fingers wide.
Besides Le and Crab, you can also consider Red Crab and Orchid Crab. Red crab meat is tender, and orchid crab meat is sweet.
Orchid crab, blue flower pattern.
Red crab, red pattern.
The big one is suitable for steaming and the small one is suitable for frying. The most important thing to buy flower crabs is to distinguish between water crabs and meat crabs. Gu Ming thinks that water crabs contain more water, while meat crabs contain more meat. Distinguishing skills, tell the merchant directly that I want meat crab. When the merchant helps you choose the meat crab, ask the merchant if you can pinch it. If he doesn't want you to pinch it, it means he's fooling you. Because the shell of water crab is broken when it is pinched, crabs are easy to die. Meat crabs have hard shells and are not afraid of being pinched. If the merchant really gives you the meat crab, he is not afraid of being pinched by you. (Pinch your stomach)
Treasure crab, crab is big and fleshy.
If you want to eat bigger crabs, you can consider rare crabs.
This kind of crab generally weighs two or three Jin, so it can be stir-fried and steamed.
PS: Generally speaking, if you can buy a female crab, don't buy a male crab. The female crab is good. Next, I will provide you with a way to distinguish male crabs from female crabs.
The difference between male and female crabs lies in the shape of their bellies, so crabs are universal.
Fourth place-fish
Grouper is the best choice.
At present, the price of grouper is very cheap, 35 yuan a catty, and the meat is tender, except for a main thorn, there are almost no small thorns.
Therefore, it is recommended to buy a grouper (1 kg is the best) for steaming or stewing.
Grouper is a better choice.
In addition, you can also consider Duobao fish or amphioxus, both of which are affordable marine fish.
40 yuan, a treasure fish, 25 yuan, a goldfish.
Duobao fish can only be steamed, and Jinchang fish can be steamed and braised.
Treasure fish, moss-colored, thin.
If you want to eat better fish, you can consider Tsing Yi fish, or Red East Star Spot and Blue East Star Spot.
Moreover, these 100 yuan a catty of fish can only be steamed, not braised, or it is a waste of ingredients.
East star spot can be divided into blue star spot and red star spot, and red star spot is more expensive.
Fifth place-Snail
Flower shell and sea white snail are both affordable, less than 10 yuan.
Flower armor, you can eat it anywhere. It's cheaper.
Sea white snail is also very cheap, suitable for making melon and conch soup.
Mango snail, beautiful grain, thin shell and fleshy foot.
Mango snail is recommended here. Mango snail is a unique snail in Hainan, which belongs to Hainan characteristics.
In addition, the shell of mango snail is very beautiful and has beautiful lines. It's not big, but there's a lot of meat.
Small mango snails weigh about 20 kg, while large mango snails are out of stock recently.
Sandbag snails are big and have big meat.
In addition, you can also buy sandbags to stir-fry snails. Chicken legs and snails are boiled in water.
These two kinds of snails are relatively large, and the price is around 25.
Snails are also a good choice. Snail meat is hard, but chewy. The price is around 60 yuan, and it can be fried or boiled.
Snails can be fried or boiled.
Sixth place-shellfish
Scallops are very cheap, 89 per catty, steamed with garlic vermicelli.
Scallops are the most cost-effective shellfish, 10 yuan 1 kg. There are eight or nine scallops in A Jin, which can be steamed with garlic vermicelli.
Generally, there are 4 oysters 10 yuan, which can be steamed with garlic.
12 abalone, 1 kg 12, nearly three fingers wide, one in 5 yuan.
Abalone, big and small. Judging from 18 head, 15 head, 12 head, 10 head and 6 head, the head means as much as 1 kg. So six heads are the largest, and 18 is the smallest. General abalone 12, one in 5 yuan.
6 abalone, 6 per catty. Four fingers wide, very big.
Scallop is a kind of fleshy shellfish, 15 yuan.
It can be steamed with garlic vermicelli, and a belt can be divided into two parts for two people to enjoy.
The round shell is very white, which is also suitable for steaming garlic vermicelli. The smaller one is 1 Yuan Yuan.
PS: Scallops are very cheap shellfish, but you can't buy more, because the processing fee is 3 yuan each, just buy a catty to eat.
If you want to buy three or four catties cheaply, you can only buy 30 yuan, but the processing fee will be 100 yuan, which will be very embarrassing.
There is a lot of meat in the belt, and one can be divided into two pieces to make garlic vermicelli.
Seventh place-boneless
There are two main kinds of boneless seafood in the first market, squid and octopus.
It's easier to buy octopus, just live one.
Squid, on the other hand, needs some skills, mainly to observe its color.
White is fresh, dark is red, and dark is stale.
It is boiled, salted and fried.
This is relatively fresh squid, which is relatively white.
This is a very stale deep red abalone.
Look at a row, the second one is freshest and whitest.
Category 8-Other categories
In addition to the above seven categories, there are some common seafood that we have also divided into other categories.
First of all, there are small scorpions and king scorpions, because king scorpions have a lot of meat and the price is not expensive, which is around 35 yuan.
Therefore, it is recommended to buy King Yan, which is suitable for stir-frying. The way to distinguish the vitality of King Qiu is to water it or touch the tender meat at the top with your hands.
The more you move, the better your vitality, and vice versa.
Bamboo blade, also known as the blade king.
Then there are sea urchins, generally 15 yuan. Sea urchins in the north are rich in meat and can be used as sashimi. However, due to the different water quality, the sea urchin meat wall in the south is thin.
So it is impossible to make sashimi. There is only one way to steam eggs with sea urchins. Choose sea urchins, choose the ones with long thorns on the right, and the ones with bare thorns on the left are not fresh.
The sea urchin on the left has been pierced, which means it is not fresh, while the sea urchin on the right is fresh.
Elephant mussels are divided into meat mussels and water mussels. As can be seen from the picture below, meat mussels are white and tender, like baby's skin. Water mussels, on the other hand, are more like the skin of greasy middle-aged men. More importantly, water mussels are three-quarters water, so they have less meat.
So 90 yuan for a water mussel, three or four hundred and one meat mussel.
Buy mussels, recommend sashimi, if you like sashimi.
Meat mussels can be fried or sashimi, and internal organs can be used to make porridge.
PS: If you buy a mussel-like water mussel and choose stir-frying, you won't believe your eyes after frying. When I bought it, it was as big as a clam shell and fried so little. This is precisely because water mussels have more water and less meat.
Seafood purchase process guide
We have introduced the common varieties of seafood one by one, and then let's set up a set of classified seafood purchase process.
1. You should be familiar with the seafood market. The first market * * * has five doors, and there is a dry goods area and a fruit area at the door. More importantly, there is a fair scale in the market, so the merchants in the market dare not tamper with the electronic scale, but they may tamper elsewhere.
You should think about what seafood you want to buy before entering the market. After entering the market, you can shop around, find your favorite seafood and compare prices. The price I gave is just a reference, and the price you compared is the real price. Seafood below 50 yuan generally does not need to be bargained, because the profit is thin, and almost every family has this price. Seafood from 50 yuan to 100 yuan can generally be bargained to 5- 10 yuan, and seafood above 100 yuan must be priced well before bargained to 10-20 yuan. If you don't compare the prices, it is of little significance to discount to 20 yuan when the merchants are asking for high prices.
3. After choosing a store that impressed you, ask him the specific price first. Then make it clear to him that if you want them all alive, you have to pick them one by one. If you die, you will come back and change them, if you are found. If you are serious enough, he won't want to kill you, because it will be more difficult. Therefore, you must not pretend that you don't understand, which is equivalent to calling the merchants to kill me.
After negotiating the price with the merchant, make sure the weight, variety and vitality are all right. When weighing, show him that you know there is a fair scale in the market, and you will weigh it later, so please weigh it accurately and remember to peel it to zero. When weighing, try to be naked without a bag. There are some situations where you have to use a belt, such as shrimp. You need to use a dry bag without water. There is a hole under the bag that leaks. You need to keep an eye on it all the time If you are serious, people will be afraid of you and dare not change seafood. PS: Make sure that the electronic scale is peeled to zero. Be sure to refuse the seafood merchants to help you kill seafood. His purpose is to give you a dead seafood and make you think it was killed. Be sure to buy live seafood and slaughter it in the processing shop.
Don't trust soliciting, because any offer they say may be a routine, at least it may be.
Below, I will introduce you to several common routines.
Some seafood merchants' routines
Merchants are quick to help you choose. Usually they are dead, have poor vitality, or have broken legs and feet.
Scale convention
The names of merchants in the market are all good names, and there is market supervision. But if you don't pay attention to it and weigh it directly without peeling, it is likely to turn 2 kg into 2.5 kg. Not only that, the baskets used by some businesses are not easy to filter water, but also gain weight.
Routine of water bag
Some merchants will soak some thick bags in water in advance, so that the bags are full of water, and then when you weigh them, the bags can be treasured in pairs. Therefore, dry bags are needed, and holes are needed to leak rain.
The routine of attracting customers to send cards
1. People inside and outside the market will ask you whether you need to take you to buy seafood or whether you need to process it after buying seafood. Generally, they will always follow you, brainwashing you through soft grinding and hard foam or giving you a discount. This behavior is called soliciting.
Generally speaking, these people can get 50% of the processing fee of the guests after they take them to the seafood shop.
They will send you a card saying that you can get a 50% discount and a 60% discount. But if you look at the cards carefully, there are many routines. For example, steamed oysters in 3 yuan/Pian (Qing) means 3 yuan adds garlic and 2 yuan without any seasoning, which is an implicit charge.
4. In order to ensure that some soliciting shops can keep profits after paying the soliciting share, there will be inflated expenses, with a per capita cost of 300 to 400, or stealing seafood.
5. The above situations often appear and can be found on the Internet, but it doesn't mean that every soliciting shop will have such behavior, because some stores are husband and wife shops, where husbands cook and wives solicit customers in the market, which is also a conscience operation. Because the cost is low, the price will be cheaper, but because you are self-employed, it is difficult to guarantee the taste and hygiene of the dishes.
6. The most important thing to eat seafood is to eat live, delicious and hygienic seafood, so try to choose a regular shop. It is not recommended to lose the delicious experience of seafood because of greed.
Seafood processing
At this point, the classification of seafood varieties, the identification of seafood, and the prevention of routines have been basically explained. I also remind friends not to believe in soliciting customers, otherwise they will regret it. If you pay attention to the news, you will see the news that tourists have been cheated and slaughtered from time to time.
The owner of a seafood restaurant told me that the problem of soliciting customers and slaughtering customers has been repeatedly banned for reasons of interest.
For soliciting girls, looking for a job can only earn 3,000 yuan a month, but on the road, pulling a table can get 50% of the processing fee, especially in the tourist season, which can earn one or two thousand yuan a day.
For tourists, because they don't know seafood, they go because they know better. After being cheated, they feel that it is better to have more than one thing. After two days, they will go home and go away.
For the government, it is impossible to attract customers without written laws. Only when the tourist police get multiple sets of evidence to prove that they have deceived consumers can they be arrested and detained 15 days. Obtaining evidence is not easy, so the government has never had an effective solution. Later, the government took the lead in setting up a seafood association, so that the urban management could catch girls soliciting, but after they were caught, the urban management only had the right to ask them to stand 1 hour. Compared with the huge kickback interest, this is bound to be difficult to work.
So I'm here to introduce seafood and explain the anti-slaughter routine, hoping to make my friends less fooled.
So I suggest you try to go to those shops with good reputation, otherwise the process of buying seafood before will be in vain.
Here, I also recommend one.
Buzaike seafood
In fact, I know there are many good seafood shops, and I have not only eaten together.
But only one is recommended here.
There are several reasons:
First of all, the name of this shop is Buzaike, and the boss took this name as a homonym for not killing customers, so it fits our words very well.
Good name, ambitious slogan and leverage in business.
Secondly, although many stores clearly mark prices and don't kill customers, this store is the only one that broadcasts the kitchen directly, which I think is very important. This kind of kitchen will make you feel more at ease, and you don't have to worry about the hard-earned seafood being replaced.
Show the whole operation process of the kitchen directly at the door, and be convinced.
Finally, this store is really good. There are many marathon medals hanging on the wall of the shop. Personally, I like running marathons, so I had a good chat with my boss. These medals were all run by their team, and the founder ran nine marathons himself. Then the service in the store is also great. From this little red flower posted on the wall, we can see that they attach great importance to whether they are sincere and enthusiastic and whether their customers are satisfied.
They are all marathon medals. I really admire it.
Interesting little red flowers.
Then when it comes to products, although it is not particularly amazing, every dish is still well processed. Stir-fried lobster is made by Sichuan chef and steamed sea bass is made by Guangdong chef, both of which are remarkable.
Finally, the most important thing is that the market of this store is very close, walking 100 meters. There is a coconut wind lane next to the market. The shop is located at No.55, Coconut Wind Lane. It takes 2 minutes to walk in.
Sichuan-style Pipi shrimp with salt and pepper doesn't look spicy, but the meat inside is very tasty.
Steamed bass in cantonese style.
Buzaike Seafood Processing (First Market Branch)
There is no luxurious decoration in the store, but it is the only seafood restaurant with marathon medals on the wall. The TV in front of the store didn't show the carefully filmed propaganda film, but it was the only seafood restaurant that directly showed the whole kitchen at the door. The waiters in the shop don't have suits and ties, but if you feel sincerity and enthusiasm from them, you can stick small red flowers on the wall on their hands or faces to show your affirmation. Therefore, both seafood and guests will be valued here, which will be an indispensable punching point in your journey.
Send Buddha to the west, and good people will do it to the end.
Because many friends who have stayed in the first market usually go to Yalong Bay for a few days.
Therefore, they also have a branch in Yalong Bay, which I recommend here.
I also went to eat at Yalong Bay Store, which is located in the central square of Yalong Bay. This is a square near the sea with beautiful scenery.
Eating seafood in the open air, the sky and the sea are within reach.
If some friends are too troublesome, they can also sell their own takeout directly from outside the US delegation, which is very convenient. Meituan take-out search "Buzaike" is enough.
The whole of Sanya should be able to deliver it, which is very powerful.
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