People in China have a history of eating snails.
Snail, also known as snail, is one of the oldest snacks, and the written record of picking up snails was first seen in Mandarin two or three thousand years ago.
At that time, there was a great famine in Emperor Wudi, there was no food in the city, and the treasury was empty, so the people moved to the coast of the East China Sea to feed on Puying. Puying, namely clam, conch and other shellfish, was also recorded in Shuwei during the Three Kingdoms period. After years of drought and famine, people eat each other. Yuan Shu led the troops in the Jianghuai area, and ordered to collect Puying for food. In ancient times, snails were no worse than oysters. One was hungry and the other was full. According to the documents of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, snails were as big as pears and oranges and as small as peaches and plums. Seeing this description, there are only two words: I want to eat.
Yu Xin, a poet in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "When a snail drinks, a dried clam produces a green dish." This may be the first poem about eating snails in the history of literature. Who is Yu Xin? Yu Xin is a poet who was "the most miserable in his life, and his poems caused a sensation in the north and south of the country in his later years". He is the most famous poet from south to north in history. From south to north, he is an enemy country. A closer look shows that this snail is not only delicious, but also homesick ... (which reminds me of the taste)
According to records, eating fried snails in the street is also one of the daily life in ancient times, because "the ingredients are complete, the colors are many, and the taste is cheap." (So that's it)
There is a folk saying in Shaoxing: "Snails are drunk, and robbers don't leave when they arrive." It is said that snails are delicious, and even if robbers catch up behind them, diners are unwilling to escape, full of the spirit of "desperately eating puffer fish".
My favorite Suzhou people have a saying about snacks: "The wind is cool, the salted egg bites, and the snail bites." The cool wind is called "cool", and the word "Benedict" sounds light and comfortable; Peeling salted eggs is called eating salted eggs, and "eating salted eggs" sounds like; The most amazing thing is to eat snails, which are called "snails". Not only can you hear the "squeak" sound of snails, but you can also feel the delicious soup of snails and imagine interesting ways to eat.
The vivid way of eating snails lies in the word "chuai", and the beauty is that they are not tired after eating for a long time and enjoy the leisure of eating.
"Fried snails smell strange fragrance across the lane,
Envy the immortal.
Pastoral flavor is a piece of cake,
This is far better than a gourmet feast. "
China people's diet is constantly developing. Look at today's snail-eating map, and the cooking methods everywhere are competing:
People in Guangzhou often cook snails with perilla leaves and garlic to make them tender and smooth, leaving their lips and teeth fragrant.
The stuffed snails in Yangshuo, Guilin, are seasoned with mint pieces and taste a little mint.
When Wuxi people cook snail meat, they chop the snail meat and pork together, which is tender and fragrant.
People in Ningbo stir-fry snail with sauce, stir-fry onion, ginger, star anise, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar;
In Jinan, snail house is commonly known as "oil in the corner" and "oil in the corner". Snails are used as the main material, onion, ginger, garlic, white sugar, soy sauce, salt, dried peppers and pepper granules as the auxiliary materials, and the secret sweet sauce is used as the auxiliary materials. The dry pot is burned thoroughly, oiled and cut into sections.
After a while, it is dark and fragrant, making people have tongue roots to produce fluid without moving chopsticks.
The representative of eating snails in Jinan is Qian Jie, the old provincial capital. At that time, that short street was full of restaurants and restaurants. On the sidewalk, under Fatong, you can always see the old irons sitting in twos and threes on the low Mazar-e, gathering at the same low table, drinking draft beer from Baotu Spring, sometimes gulping mutton skewers and crayfish from old Jinan, and sometimes sucking a mouthful of snails and sucking the fragrance back. Several restaurants have attracted diners in the provincial capital and surrounding areas because of their unique and well-run practices, so that people forget that this is the official residence of nearly a thousand years, and it is the cultural street and commercial street of old Jinan. This snail seems to have gone through thousands of years and entered the clarification of the Yuan Dynasty (the front street of the provincial capital was called clarification in the Yuan Dynasty).
It's late at night, and the cooker in the kitchen is still rolling. The cooker is on the cooker, and the screws are in the cooker. Manshi piaoxiang ......
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