When it comes to Chinese favorite food, crayfish must be one of them! Whether spicy, or 13 incense, is a lot of people's favorite!
In addition to China's large-scale culture of crayfish, the Chinese living in Western Australia are also very happy, because you can taste the world-class gourmet crayfish-Western Australia crayfish!
Western Australia crayfish has become the top food material in high-end restaurants all over the world because of its excellent meat quality, pure water quality, huge size and many other factors.
Demand for Western Australia's freshwater crustacean, crayfish, has been growing and growing dramatically in the past few years, especially in China.
However, the recent drought in Western Australia has caused a large shortage of this export supply.
Australia's largest government-certified crayfish processing plant was Western Australia's Cambinata Yabbies, a crayfish factory in Great Southern, southeast of Western Australia, which was run by a family for many years until Chinese sales soared.
Cambinata Yabbies's crayfish is a dam from nearby fields. Fished by nearby farmers and sold to Cambinata.
After a period of breeding in the feeding pond at the Cambinata plant, it was sold to the world.
Mary Nenke has been running Cambinata Yabbies with her family for more than 28 years, and now her children are the main force in the factory, GanJiang, who says she has never seen such a serious shortage this year in years, and that many of the surrounding dams have dried up. Rising orders, on the one hand, and drought in the past 12 months, on the other, have contributed to the current supply crunch.
"at present, there are still some places where there is water, but now there are more crayfish farmers, and many dams are empty," Nenke said.
Cambinata exports about 40 tons of agricultural products to Asian and out-of-state markets each year and supplies high-end restaurants. Their products have been widely praised.
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Demand for overseas orders more than doubled year-on-year, but could not be supplied at all, Nenke said. "there are too many people from abroad, especially Chinese, looking for crayfish from Australia on their menus. If we can keep supplying it, it means they won't import from the rest of the world."
China's growing demand for crayfish,
Change made the pattern of crayfish export business.
"there are a lot of Chinese students coming here to train, and when they get back to China, they want to eat crayfish here, so that's why the demand really peaked," said Paul Nenke, director of Cambinata Yabbies.
"the population of a Chinese city is the same as that of Australia. They want crayfish, and we need to supply it as much as possible."
And now Cambinata Yabbies's factory has become a tourist attraction, tourists have set foot in watching.
Not only is export global market, even in Australia crayfish demand is also very prosperous.
Crayfish has been a regular menu visitor for the past 25 years, says Colin Addison, director of dining at famous restaurant Miss Maud. Wherever our guests come from, we are deeply interested in this Western Australian cuisine.
"crayfish demand has grown dramatically over the past decade, especially during the peak tourist season, when restaurant diners consume as much as 60 kilograms a week," Colin Addison said.
At the same time, Addison said the drought in the past 12 months has caused the current crayfish supply is extremely short, to obtain a stable supply, especially on a good scale is very difficult, so we have to reduce the supply.