Chinese people eat snail is a history.

Tianluo, also known as snail, is a snack in the longest history of a fresh, scavenging snail written records can be found as early as two or three thousand years ago in the "State of the Union".

At that time, the territory of Wu Di was in a great drought, the city had no food, and the state treasury was empty, so the people moved to the East China Sea coast, and took Pouweng for food. Pu win, that is, mussels and clams, conch shellfish, the Three Kingdoms, "Wei Shu" also has a similar record, drought for years, people eat each other, Yuan Shu in the Jianghuai area to lead the war, ordered to pick up Pu win for food. Ancient snail size is not inferior to oyster, a hunger, two tube full, according to the North and South Dynasties period literature describes the snail was as big as a pear or orange, as small as a peach or a plum. Seeing such a description, there are only two words: want to eat.

Yu Xin, a poet of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, once wrote a poem, "The fragrant snail drinks wine, and the dead clam is in the orchid", which may be the first poem in the history of literature to write positively about eating snails. Who was Yu Xin? Yu Xin is the one who said, "Yu Xin is the most melancholy in his life, and his poems and gifts in his twilight years have moved the rivers and passes through the country." He is the most famous poet in the history of the South to the North, and the South to the North is the enemy country of the Qu Festival, and the snail is not only the taste of the flavor, but also the homesickness... (This also reminds me of the flavor of the past)

According to records, the snail due to the "full range of condiments and color, and taste of inexpensive wine", the street squatting to eat fried snails is also one of the ancient home daily. （

Shaoxing has a folk proverb: "peck snails over wine, robbers rush to do not want to go", said the snail flavor, even if the back of the robbers to catch up, diners will not want to escape, and have a "fight to the death to eat puffer fish" of the temperament.

Favorite Suzhou people have a proverb about snacks "wind cool Dudu Dudu, salted egg high, snail sip". The cool wind is called "wind cool Tuk Tuk", "Tuk Tuk" two words sound also light and cozy; peeling salted eggs is called high salted eggs, "salted eggs high high" as the sound; the most amazing is to eat The most amazing thing is to eat snails, called "snail sipping", not only hear the snail sipping "shivering" sound, but also feel the freshness of the snail soup, imagine the interesting eating face.

The eating method of snail is in this "sip" word, wonderful in the long eat not full not tired not tired, enjoy all the munching into the flavor of the leisurely fun.

"Fried snails smelled across the street,

envy of the gods down to earth.

A small dish of idyllic flavor,

far better than a full table of delicacies."

The Chinese diet is constantly evolving, turn over the map of today's food snail, cooking methods around the competition, no less than:

Guangzhou people cooking snail often with perilla leaves, garlic, eat up the inner texture of the tender, lips and teeth;

Guilin Yangshuo's stuffed snail to chopped mint as a seasoning, eat a hint of mint;

Wuxi people do stuffed meat snail, and then eat it.

Wuxi people make snail stuffed meat, the snail meat and pork together with chopped velvet, into the fresh, fragrant;

Ningbo people sauce burst snail, onion, ginger, star anise, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar and stir-fried together;

In Jinan, snails are commonly known as "nooks and crannies of oil," clarifying that "nooks and crannies of oil," with the small, small, small, and small snails, the snail is the most important thing. oil son", to small snails as the main material, onion, ginger, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, salt, dried chili peppers, peppercorns as a supplementary material, with a secret sweet sauce, fierce fire dry pot, under the oil, under the material, under the snails, soy sauce explosion, soy sauce explosion, soy sauce explosion, soy sauce explosion ...... Sweet, salty, spicy, fresh, fragrant, all five flavors, under the wine and rice.

In a matter of moments, shiny, hot and spicy, so that people have not moved the chopsticks on the tongue.

In Jinan, the representative of eating snails is the old provincial capital street, which was not long at that time, filled with large and small restaurants, restaurants. Sidewalks, under the Falun Gong, often seen in twos and threes of the old iron sitting on a low zipper, the same low table, drinking "Baotu" beer, sometimes eat the old Jinan lamb skewers, crayfish, sometimes sip a snail, sucking fingers back to the incense. There are several museums because of the "five spice nook oil," unique practices, business practices, and even attracted the provincial capital and the surrounding diners, so that people forget that this is nearly a thousand years of official residence, forget that this is the old Jinan cultural street, commercial street. Sob, sip this mouthful of snails, it seems like it will travel through the millennium, through the Yuan Dynasty's Clarification Li (the provincial capital of the street in front of the Yuan Dynasty is called Clarification Li).

The night is already late, the kitchen pots and pans are still rolling, pots and pans on the stove, snails in the pot. The room is full of fragrance ......

? Ding You Tanabata

Clarification Li