145. Detailed explanation of the psychological game of buying fish
After eating half of the [lion head] in the bowl, the second dish came.
After all, it is an affordable restaurant, so it is impossible to accommodate the dining speed of customers.
It was the smiling aunt who served the food.
"Hello everyone, [Pine Nut Mandarin Fish], it's very hot inside, don't bite it in one bite!"
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Li Xiao
He secretly wondered if he had guessed wrong just now.
What Auntie wants to remind herself is not that the gravy in [Lion’s Head] is too hot?
The reminder after the food was served, maybe it was just a casual sentence from her???
The pine nut mandarin fish is not big, after all, it is just a mandarin fish weighing just over a pound.
After removing the internal organs, it will only become smaller.
In fact, in many cases, it is not that the store is cutting corners, and there is indeed a big gap between the live animals and the prepared dishes.
Be it size or weight.
A 2-pound fish will only have about 1.4 to 1.5 kilograms left after killing it. That is, one kilogram of fish will lose 0.25 to 0.3 kilograms after being killed.
After all, you need to remove the scales, cut off some useless fish bones, and most importantly, remove the fish’s internal organs. This is the biggest difference between live fish and killed fish.
Of course, in addition to this reason, there is another reason.
The merchant really cut corners and changed the concept.
The propaganda reads
[Buy three pounds of crayfish and get three pounds free]
When the customer got it, he found that it only weighed 4 pounds.
The explanation given by the merchant is that 6 pounds of crayfish are alive and 4 pounds after being killed.
This is false propaganda and the concept is changed. Although a 6-pound live crayfish, after being killed and decapitated, is really only 4 pounds.
However, it is unethical behavior for merchants to deliberately fail to explain when promoting.
Even if your cooked crayfish, including soup and juice, weighs six pounds, I think few people will complain.
Closer to home, although this [Pine Nut Mandarin Fish] is not big, in Li Xiao’s opinion, it is definitely big enough.
After all, Li Xiao may have [Ability: Proficient in Seafood Selection].
Although there is no way to turn the naked eye into an electronic scale, it is still clear how big a live fish weighing less than one pound or two pounds is after cooking.
【Pine Nut Mandarin Fish】
The names are slightly different in each place, but the methods are almost the same.
Choose fish with more meat and fewer spines to remove the meat.
Generally speaking, most places use mandarin fish, also known as mandarin fish.
In fact, mandarin fish and mandarin fish are the same thing.
However, because the character 霜 [guì] is relatively rare, many people only know how to pronounce it but not how to write it.
Therefore, the word "Gui" was used instead, and over time in many places, mandarin fish was called mandarin fish, mandarin fish, mandarin fish, mandarin fish and mandarin fish. The difference between mandarin fish and mandarin fish is just in the names.
The mandarin fish used to make [Pine Nut Mandarin Fish] should not be too big or too small.
The mandarin fish is too big and the meat is too thick. After being coated in flour, the meat inside will be fried easily.
The mandarin fish should not be too small. If it is small, the bones will be heavy and the meat will be less. After frying, the fish meat will shrink very thin, and you can only eat the flour but not the fish meat.
Therefore, when making [Pine Nut Mandarin Fish], it is best to choose mandarin fish of one and a half to two pounds, which is neither too big nor too small.
The size of the fish in front of me is just right. It seems that the manager is not one of those people who chooses fish randomly just to sell an extra pound or two, regardless of the actual situation.
Of course, it may also be because when purchasing, the store deliberately selected mandarin fish in sizes ranging from 1.5 to 2 pounds to make the product better.
[Pine Nut Mandarin Fish] is much more difficult to make than [Braised Lion Head].
Of course, this does not actually mean that [Pine Nut Mandarin Fish] is really difficult. The main reason is that [Pine Nut Mandarin Fish] requires certain knife skills, which many people cannot achieve.
Buy a live mandarin fish and hit the seven inches of the fish with a wooden stick.
You don’t know where the seven inches of mandarin fish are?
Then just knock casually. It’s a joke to knock casually slowly.
Instead of hitting the seven inches, just hit the head as much as possible and a few more times to avoid making it too painful.
Of course, it was also to make him die completely. After all, the bones of mandarin fish are very long and sharp.
It's not very pleasant to be pricked by an animal that is about to fight back before it dies.
After letting the mandarin fish die in bliss, find a sharp enough knife and carefully hang off its scales.
After all, death is dead. What life does not bring and death does not take away, come naked, come naked...
Sorry, I forgot he has no clothes.
Anyway, after feeling the fish scales, it would disembowel it.
Of course, the above work can be completely left to the aunt or uncle who sells fish in the market.
Of course, the prerequisite for making the above request is that the market you are in is a southern market.
After you have purchased from a certain stall many times and repeatedly, and after you have formed a certain tacit understanding with the boss.
You can even unlock some new moves, no, some new requirements.
You can make further requests to the boss, such as getting on base. No, I'm not that kind of person. What I want to say is, getting on base, that's right.
Let the boss take action and complete the subsequent steps of killing the fish.,
After all, the knife skills of a murderous fishmonger are bound to be much better than those of ordinary people, and it is not a matter of innate talent.
Nothing but familiarity with your hands.
After removing the internal organs, clean the mandarin fish.
Cut off the mandarin fish's dog head, or fish head, from behind its gill cover.
Don't throw it away to feed the cat, because it still has its uses. A pine nut mandarin fish without a fish head is somewhat lacking in charm, just like "I want to sleep with you" and "I want to see you when I wake up", two sentences
A word difference can make the artistic conception and charm completely different.
Cut the fish head in half from the mouth, wash and set aside.
On the incision of the fish body, find the position of the fish spine, and cut the fish meat and fish spine with a knife, but do not completely cut off the fish meat, and the blade should stay in front of the fish tail.
Mirror the fish meat on both sides, and then cut off the backbone of the fish in front of the tail.
You will get a piece of fish meat that is connected together. Of course, you still need to remove the bones from its abdomen to complete the work of removing the meat.
At this point, even though the Southern Fish Boss has had many transactions with you and seems to have talked about everything, his favorability towards you has temporarily dropped to neutral.
As long as you say the wrong next line of dialogue, the relationship between you and the fish boss may enter temporary hostility.
You have to say it now
"Boss, I'll pay you a few more dollars, and you can cut the fish into pieces for me!"
When you say this sentence, your situation will immediately change.
The offensive and defensive situation reversed instantly, and the person who now needs to consider the friendship between the two will become the fish boss.
The fish boss has only two choices
A. "Okay, just pay 5 yuan more and I'll help you."
If the friendliness of the other party is minus ten, your customers will no longer patronize you.
B. "Hey, you're so familiar with it, how much do you charge? You want to make pine nut mandarin fish, right? I'll cut the flowers for you. My knife skills are famous in the whole market."
The friendliness of the other party increases by ten, your reputation increases by ten, and customers will favor your fish stall even more.
C. You pretended not to hear and stuffed the fish into the bag.
The friendliness of the other party randomly decreases.
Obviously, as a fish owner who wants to run the business for a long time, he will probably still choose B.
After all, with a few dollars on one side and a long-term customer on the other, the choice is hardly difficult. As long as you are not confused, you have to choose B even if you grit your teeth.
