Back to middle May, Waipoqiao aquatic enterprise received the crawfish order from French client PassionFroid that they would like to go to Jingzhou, Hubei to purchase a batch of crawfish. Normally, the client will procure the product in June and July. The purchasing representative from PassionFroid said that it’s the third time that UEFA Euro had been held in France, which would bring a boom of sales of dairy, meat and aquatic products.
PassionFroid is a big food company with a hundred years of history in France, whose products covering more than 4, 500 categories, including dairy, meat and aquatic products. Generally, it will purchase a huge amount of fish and shrimp products from China each year while crawfish is the key item procured in Hubei province. Besides, moonfish and anglerfish are also among the products PassionFroid plans to purchase.
Tianhe, another aquatic enterprise in Jingzhou, Hubei, enjoys independent EU registration number in regard to its crawfish product. And regular customers are pretty satisfied with this year’s crawfish quality. Traditionally, French companies will procure one or two containers, weighing dozens of tonnes, of peeled shrimp to France. The batch of crawfish will be processed into peeled crawfish salad and served to the working staff involved in the UEFA Euro 2016.
It’s known that France is the keenest country in EU to eating crawfish. Because of the small limited quantity of origin-produced crawfish, France relies heavily on import and the biggest import channel is through China. Different from Chinese people who love hot and spicy crayfish, people in France prefer boiling the fish and peeled one with white wine.
