Earthworm jelly is a gelatinous mass made from a worm-like mollusk. This critter grows in shallow mudflats and is grayish-white and cylindrical in shape, hence the name "earth bamboo shoots". Jinjiang Anhai, Dongshi area are produced, but to Anhai Town, five miles of bridge in the Ting Harbor near the most fertile and largest bamboo shoots.
The production of "earth bamboo shoot jelly" is most famous in Sin Aun Village. It is not only tasty and nutritious, but also has medicinal value. When you have a sore throat, eating it immediately stops the pain, which is better than a panacea. It can reduce fire and inflammation, cool and relieve heat, is a very favorite snack in the hot days.
The soil bamboo shoots jelly is originated in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, a kind of color and flavor of the traditional Han Chinese snacks. Nowadays, it is popular in the whole southern Fujian area, and is a kind of frozen products processed by unique products. It is rumored that the inventor was the national hero Zheng Chenggong. It contains gelatin, the main raw material is a worm, belonging to the phylum Astrozoa.
The scientific name is Cocculus graminatus starworm, two or three inches long. After boiling, the gelatin contained in the body of the worm dissolves into the water, and when cooled, it is condensed into a block, and its meat is clear, sweet and fresh flavor. With good soy sauce, Yongchun vinegar, sweet chili sauce, mustard chili, garlic, jellyfish and coriander, shredded white radish, shredded chili peppers, tomato slices.
The jelly is popular not only in Quanzhou, but also in Xiamen and Putian. The oldest production area is Anhai and other southern Fujian areas. Today, Xiamen, using authentic techniques to produce very few businesses, most of the jelly in the earth bamboo shoots to add gelatin, while Quanzhou, Jinjiang's well-known old earth bamboo shoots jelly still adhere to the ancient method of simmering, the earth bamboo shoots simmering out of the gelatin in the soup naturally condensed into a jelly.
A variety of pharmacopoeias in China recorded its edible and medicinal value, starwort cold, sweet, salty, with nourishing yin and fire, clearing the lungs and replenishing the deficiency, blood circulation and tonifying the body and tonifying the kidneys, etc., can be used to treat the bone steam and hot flushes, yin deficiency and night sweating, coughing and wheezing of the lungs, chest tightness and phlegm, as well as women's postnatal breast milk sparse and so on, on the treatment of coughing and consumption, neurasthenia, pediatric splenic deficiency and renal deficiency and nocturnal urination and other diseases are effective.
At the same time the star worm is a nutritious, rich in protein, a variety of amino acids and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements and the ability to regulate the brain function of taurine a variety of ingredients, plus the star worm is a high-protein seafood containing a variety of amino acids, so there is a "beach sausage" of the reputation of Xiamen and domestic and foreign consumers favor. It is favored by consumers in Xiamen and at home and abroad.
"There are winter worms in the mountain, and there are star worms in the sea" reflects the extremely high nutritional value of asparagus jelly. Therefore, in Quanzhou, the origin of earth bamboo shoots jelly, you can often see children eating earth bamboo shoots jelly scene.
Conclusion Although the bugs still make people feel a little disgusted, and even most of the girls will feel horrible to see, I once ate live octopus without wrinkled eyebrows, but see the earth bamboo shoots jelly or a goosebumps, but to be a good food or try to try all the delicious.