The taste of snail noodles is really great. But as a Guangxi person, I really love snail noodles. The taste of snail noodles is mainly due to the smell of sour bamboo shoots in it. If you are not used to the taste of sour bamboo shoots, you will find it very smelly. This sour taste is like smelling stinky tofu. It smells bad but tastes very fragrant.

In a university cafeteria in Jinzhou, Liaoning, it is forbidden to eat snail noodles in the restaurant. This is normal. Because people in the north are not used to the strong smell, so for the benefit of many diners, snail noodles are not allowed to be eaten in the dining room. There are signs posted in the university cafeteria that dine-in is prohibited and only takeout is allowed. The taste of snail noodles is really not acceptable to most people, especially those who have never eaten sour bamboo shoots.

I remember when I was in college, I also brought local specialties to my roommates. I went home during Qingming Festival and went to the supermarket to bring a lot of snail noodles to my roommate. At that time, snail noodles were not that famous. So everyone is very curious about this food and want to eat it. After eating it once, my roommate secretly told me whether the snail noodles I brought were broken and had a bad smell. I thought no. How could the freshly packaged snail noodles I bought in the supermarket go bad? It turned out later that the bad taste she was talking about was the smell of sour bamboo shoots. I realized that none of them had ever eaten sour bamboo shoots, so it was difficult for them to accept the taste. I couldn’t laugh or cry.

Snail noodles are really popular in Guangxi. The most famous thing about Guangxi is that there are noodle shops everywhere, and you can make noodle wherever you go. The joy of fans is really unparalleled. You don’t have to eat when you go out, but you must have a bowl of noodles. Snail noodles are the biggest fan here. Snail noodle shops can be found everywhere. For those who love to eat snail noodles, the aroma of snail noodles wafting out from the snail noodle shop is very addictive. The sour bamboo shoots in snail noodles are really the soul. Because of the sour bamboo shoots, it feels a bit smelly. But this "stinky" thing really gets better and better the more you eat it. People who like to eat snail noodles like the strong smell the most. The more they eat, the more addictive they become.