golden fishing village.

Chapter 540 The quality of seafood is not up to standard

"What's wrong?"

Hearing Fang Ming's words, Xu Feifei immediately showed a nervous expression.Although she has been running Hongfu Restaurant for more than half a year, her understanding of seafood has improved a lot.But compared to "experts" such as Fang Ming and Sun Wenjun, her gap is still obvious.

She just randomly checked two boxes of seafood.

The fish in these two boxes of seafood are alive and kicking, and there is nothing wrong with them.

Xu Feifei looked at Fang Ming and said hurriedly, "Ah Ming, what's wrong? Aren't these seafood all alive?"

Fang Ming shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Our Hongfu Restaurant is for high-end catering, so the requirements for seafood are naturally higher. If we only need fresh seafood, how can we meet the quality requirements?"

Xu Feifei frowned: "Amin, are you saying that the quality of these seafood is not good?"

She grabbed a large yellow croaker with her own hands and put it in front of her eyes for a closer look.This large yellow croaker is not small, about 25 centimeters in length.And its body is very well-proportioned, it is a standard spindle shape.

A wild large yellow croaker of this size costs at least tens of thousands of dollars.

However, this large yellow croaker is farmed and purchased from the Jiaming Seafood Market through an agreement, so the purchase price only costs 35 yuan per catty.

Xu Feifei looked at it for a long time, but still couldn't see the problem.She asked suspiciously, "Amin, what's wrong with this big yellow croaker?"

Fang Ming said in a deep voice, "Look at the luster and eyeballs."

"A lot of seafood is deep-sea fish, and it will die when it comes out of the sea. Therefore, to judge whether the quality of seafood is qualified, we must judge the time of death of seafood. The best way to judge the time of death is to look at the eyes of fish."

"For seafood that has been dead for too long, the eyes of the fish will turn white and then sink into the head of the fish. But for seafood that has just died, the eyes of the fish have not lost their luster. And their eyes are protruding outward. This is People often say dead fish eyes."

Xu Feifei quickly checked the big yellow croaker.

As expected, the big yellow croaker's eyes were sunken, deeply embedded in the sides of the fish's head.Moreover, the eyeballs of this large yellow croaker are not shiny at all, and it feels like it is about to rot.

Xu Feifei exclaimed in surprise: "A Ming, according to what you said, how long has this fish been dead?"

Fang Ming did not answer Xu Feifei's question, but continued: "To judge the quality of seafood, there is another issue that needs to be considered, and that is the way the seafood is raised. A lot of seafood is raised with animal feed, and the quality of the meat is very poor. But good cultured seafood adopts the deep-sea farming method. This method is to raise seafood in fish farms, and usually does not use feed to breed it. The taste of seafood raised in this way is only a little worse than that of wild seafood. "

"The most important way to judge which method is used to raise seafood is to look at the luster of the seafood. Take large yellow croaker as an example, the golden color of good-quality large yellow croaker is very bright. Especially at night, use a flashlight to take a look It's like gold."

"On both sides of the yellow croaker's belly, there will be a golden fish scale."

"But poor quality seafood has no luster at all. The fish scales are khaki."

As he spoke, Fang Ming took the big yellow croaker from Xu Feifei's hands.He pointed the large yellow croaker to Xu Feifei and said, "This is a typical purely farmed seafood. And this large yellow croaker should have been dead for more than three days."

"This……"

Hearing Fang Ming's words, Xu Feifei also froze for a moment.Seafood dead for three days is edible if stored properly.However, Hongfu Restaurant is a high-end seafood restaurant and has high requirements for the quality of seafood.

Therefore, when purchasing seafood, it is required that the death time of seafood should not exceed 24 hours!
The quality of this batch of seafood is obviously not up to standard.

Xu Feifei frowned and said, "Amin, isn't the Jiaming Seafood Market our strategic partner? Why would they provide us with such inferior seafood?"

Fang Ming also shook his head sullenly.

He said to several unloading staff: "Hurry up and check other seafood to see if there is any problem with the quality."

Several staff members nodded and immediately started checking all the seafood.The chef in the back kitchen also ran out and started to help with the inspection.

10 minutes later all the seafood was checked.

In addition to the big yellow croaker just now, there are also a box of hairtail, a box of plum fish, and a box of small yellow croaker.

Although these seafood have not deteriorated, they are no longer fresh.

The quality of the remaining ten or so boxes of seafood was barely passable.

Seeing this result, Xu Feifei also breathed a sigh of relief.She said to Fang Ming: "Fortunately, most of the seafood is fine. Otherwise, our restaurant will be in trouble today. Today is the weekend, and there must be a lot of people coming to eat."

Fang Ming said in a deep voice, "Are these seafood enough?"

The amount of seafood in front of me is not much.

In addition, four boxes of problematic seafood were found, and the number was even smaller.

Judging from the daily seafood consumption of Hongfu Restaurant, it may not be enough.

The head chef at the side said, "Boss Fang, these few boxes of seafood are definitely not enough. In addition to individual guests, there are three wedding banquets reserved today. These seafood can barely be ordered by individual guests. But the three wedding banquets Certainly not enough."

Fang Ming narrowed his eyes: "How did you arrange it before?"

The head chef replied: "The three wedding banquets were all in the evening. The food was served at the auspicious time of 58:02. I was worried that the seafood would be stale for too long, so I made an appointment for Manager Sun to deliver the goods at 30:[-] in the afternoon. .”

"02:30 PM?"

Fang Ming looked at the time, it is now 09:30 in the morning.

There are still five hours.

in time.

He said to Xu Feifei: "You send these seafood to the kitchen first, and arrange them for the individual guests at noon. I will arrange the seafood for the wedding banquet in the evening."

Xu Feifei was puzzled: "Amin, how do you arrange it? There are only five hours left."

Fang Ming smiled at her: "Don't worry. I'll go to Jiaming Seafood Market first. I'll tell you if I have any questions."

"it is good."

Only then did Xu Feifei nod, and then directed everyone to move the seafood to the kitchen.

Fang Ming left from Hongfu Restaurant and went straight to the parking lot.He started the car and called Sun Wenjun: "Cousin, where are you?"

It was very noisy on the other end of the phone, as if someone was arguing.

After a long time, Sun Wenjun's tired voice sounded: "Amin, I'm at Jiaming Seafood Market."

Fang Ming nodded: "Okay. I'll come over right away."

"Are you coming over?"

Sun Wenjun was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Amin, why are you so anxious about something? Do you still need to make a special trip?"

Fang Ming said in a deep voice, "I can't explain it on the phone. I'll talk about it when I get here."

With that said, Fang Ming hung up the phone and drove straight to Jiaming Seafood Market.

After 15 minutes, the Mercedes-Benz S600 has slowly stopped in the parking lot.

Fang Ming got out of the car and glanced around.

In the next second, Fang Ming's face immediately became ugly.

(End of this chapter)