Snail powder will not stink without sour bamboo shoots. As a specialty of Liulin, Guangxi, snail powder is characterized by its smell. Many people usually like snail powder. This sour taste is actually a bad smell, which comes from sour bamboo shoots. If you don't put sour bamboo shoots, its smell will be much less.

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 is made of natural spices, such as snail, kaempferia kaempferia, star anise, cinnamon, clove and various peppers.

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 medicines, 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.