Crisped Grass Carp in Zhongshan, Crisp and Delicious
By a pure chance, crisped grass carp swam out the Yangtze water reservoir. In a year, a villager caught a crisped grass carp in a pit near Fuhuo Village and brought it home. He cooked the carp and found the meat crisp. That's very rare for a grass carp. The Hakkas who resided near the Yangtze water reservoir were very superstitious and they were on the pins and needles for they thought they had eaten the fabled "holy fish". However, other families caught the crisp carp very soon and the veil of the crisped grass carp group was uncovered gradually.
Thirty years ago, there was a transfer terminal next to the Yangtze water reservoir. A huge amount of broad beans were loaded there. And lots of beans dropped into the reservoir due to the loose package. The reservoir was mainly occupied with grass carp at that time and the fish ate the broad beans, therefore the meat became more crisp.
The water of west river mouth in Zhongshan is clear without pollution and is deemed as the most suitable habitat for crisped grass carp. The carps are wild andbrave. They love surfing, swimming and diving. That's why their meat is tighter. And the meat turns crisp when they are fed with natural broad beans from Northeast. As a sport champion, crisped grass carp has much more meat than bones which contains 12% more protein than ordinary carp. To make the carps meat crisper, you need to wait until the strong north wind sweeps Guangzhou and the temperature decreases due to the reason that the carp has to keep swimming to keep warm, thus the meat of course turning fresher and crisper.