Where is snail flour a specialty?

Snail Vermicelli is a specialty of Liuzhou, Guangxi.

Snail flour has several flavors such as spicy, fresh, sour and hot. Liuzhou is rich in snail, also love to eat snail. People in Liuzhou have been eating snails for hundreds of years, and when Liuzhou people return to their hometown, they are the first time to find a bowl of snail flour to eat to relieve their homesickness.

The name of snail comes from the soup base, snail noodle soup base is made of snail (stone snail), pork bone and herbs boiled, snail meat is fresh, pork bone flavor, spicy oil floats through the mouth. The traditional side dishes are hollow cabbage or cauliflower, fungus, peanuts, pickled bamboo shoots, bean curd, squash, cauliflower, pickled bean curd, in addition to snail eggs and duck's feet are available in all snail noodle stores. Snail eggs are eggs boiled and shelled and put in snail soup to continue cooking into, eat some snail fresh flavor.

Development history

Snail noodles first appeared in the late 1970s, although the history is relatively short, but shirts and snails and rice noodles have been passed down for a long time in Liuzhou. Liu Wen, who has been engaged in cultural relics and archaeology in Liuzhou for more than 40 years, believes that in a small way, Liuzhou's historical and cultural development trajectory is a piece of history of collecting and eating snails.?

More than 40 years ago, Chinese archaeologists found large accumulations of snail shells at sites such as Bailian Cave and the carp mouth of Dalongtan. "About 20,000 years ago, the 'Liujiang people' living in Bailian Cave began to catch snails for consumption and learned to use fire, and the remains of the 'fire-burning stone snails' of the primitive people of that time are still left in the Bailian Cave site. " Liuzhou City, Bailian Cave Cave Science Museum curator Jiang Jinyuan said.