Snail powder is one of the special snacks in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which has a unique flavor of spicy, refreshing, fresh, sour and spicy. It is a famous snack with the most local characteristics in Liuzhou. Snail powder is delicious because of its unique soup. The soup base is made of natural spices such as snail, kaempferia kaempferia, star anise, cinnamon, clove and various peppers.
Snail powder will come out of the paste when it is just cooked. If you continue to use this boiled soup, the soup base will be impure and can't reflect the taste of snail soup well. Besides, the paste cooked with snail powder generally tastes bad, and the snail powder that is too thick and paste tastes bad. Snail powder is a flavor snack in Liuzhou, Guangxi, and it is the intangible cultural heritage of China and Guangxi. It is made of Liuzhou's unique rice flour, and is mixed with boiled snail soup with sour bamboo shoots, fungus, peanuts, fried yuba, day lily, fresh and tender vegetables and moderate sour and spicy taste. It tastes sour, spicy, fresh, cool and spicy, and has the special smell of sour bamboo shoots. The biggest feature of snail powder is the soup base, which is unique, spicy, fresh and smelly. The taste makes many people "stay at a respectful distance", but those who know how to appreciate it will know that it is fragrant but not rotten, and it will appetize when it smells, drool when it is remembered, and roll when it is eaten.
Historical origin: Pepper was introduced into China from the United States in the late Ming Dynasty. At first, it was only used as ornamental crops and medicinal materials, and it didn't take long for it to enter China's menu. After the strong entry of Zanthoxylum bungeanum into China, it set off a moderate diet revolution. Liuzhou people mixed it into snail powder to give full play to its role, thus producing snail powder. Many people who have eaten snail powder question why there are no snails in snail powder. It is said that the snail soup with snail powder is made from folk secret recipes such as snail meat, pig bones, medicinal materials and natural spices, and the snail meat after boiling will be discarded because its essence is concentrated in the soup. Snail powder first appeared in the late 1970s. Although the history is not long, snails and rice noodles have a long history in Liuzhou. Liu Wen, who has been engaged in cultural relics archaeology in Liuzhou for more than 40 years, believes that from a small perspective, the historical and cultural development track of Liuzhou is a history of collecting edible snails.