Jingshen Seafood Market: King crabs and crocodiles, sea cucumbers and salmon in Beijing
The crab was *this* big!
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Jingshen Seafood Market in Beijing is not the kind of spot you want to visit if you get squeamish seeing oysters shucked, fish cleaned, crocodiles stuck in small tanks, or the occasional sea creature floating belly up. But it is where a lot of seafood served in this city’s restaurants come from. I visited last month with a group that was led by Migas chef Aitor Olabegoya and included visiting Spanish chef Carles Tejeda. The market is huge, with outdoor and indoor areas, and stocks everything from Canadian lobsters to Australian king crabs to sea cucumbers, crocodiles and smoked salmon. There are restaurants where you can have your seafood prepared though we didn’t visit any on this trip. Here are eight photos from the morning plus one of Tejeda making a “gin tonic oyster” at Migas.
Tejeda and Olabegoya check the crabs
A parking lot turned seafood market
Finishing the visit with a game of chess
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- Making dumplings
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- Owner needed
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- Parking lot turned market
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- Shucking oysters
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- Finishing with a chess game
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- Unloading seafood
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- Tejeda with a crab
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- The fish was how big?
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Nice post – check this vid of the equivalent in Shanghai, Tonchuan Seafood Market (youtube) or you can see the Youku version here… there are some entertaining close encounters with crusty crustaceans (and local fishermen!)
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