Eating in China
Dark elongated mussels, including a few opened shells showing the meat.

Mussels

青口Qīngkǒu

Shellfish with paired shells; blue mussels have dark, teardrop-shaped shells and fibrous attachment threads called a beard.

Type
Fish and seafood

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Shellfish with paired shells; blue mussels have dark, teardrop-shaped shells and fibrous attachment threads called a beard.

In the kitchen

Cooked with rice and other seafood in Portuguese-style seafood rice.

Blue mussel is one example; it should not be assumed to be the mussel used in the rice dish.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有青口吗?

Does this dish contain Mussels?

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