The history of snail noodles:

Chili pepper was introduced to China from the Americas in the late Ming Dynasty. At first, it was only used as an ornamental crop and medicine, and it did not enter the Chinese menu for a long time. After the chili pepper entered China, it set off a small dietary revolution. Liuzhou people integrated it into snail noodles and made use of it, thus creating snail noodles.

Many people who have eaten snail noodles question why there is not a single snail in it. It is said that the snail soup of snail noodles is made from secret folk recipes such as snail meat, pork bones, medicinal materials, and natural spices. The snail meat after soup will be discarded, because its essence is concentrated into the soup.

Snail noodles first appeared in the late 1970s. Although it has a short history, snails and rice noodles have a long history in Liuzhou. Liu Wen, who has been engaged in cultural relics and archaeology in Liuzhou for more than 40 years, believes that from a small perspective, the historical and cultural development trajectory of Liuzhou is a history of collecting edible snails.

The true origin of snail noodles:

Account 1: In the mid-1980s, there was a grocery store on Jiefang South Road that also sold dried snail noodles. The clerk often took a handful of dried snail noodles in the morning I went to the grandma’s snail stall next door to cook the rice noodles, and later someone bought vegetables to mix it with. Grandma Wang Ji, who sold snails, thought the noodles tasted very good, so she started selling snail noodles.

Account 2: In the 1970s and 1980s, the Gubu Street Vegetable Market became the largest distribution center for wholesale snails in Liuzhou City. After the audiences at the nearby Workers’ Cinema left, they liked to hang out nearby, forming the Gubu Street Night Market. .

Liuzhou people have always been fond of eating snails and rice noodles. Some night market owners sell boiled snails and rice noodles at the same time. Some diners like to add oily and watery snail soup to the rice noodles, thus forming the prototype of snail noodles.

According to the third theory: Late one night in the early 1980s, several outsiders came to Liuzhou and arrived at a rice noodle stall that was about to close. Because there was no more bone soup, there was only a pot of snail soup left after cooking snails, so the stall owner Boil the rice noodles in snail soup, add vegetables, peanuts and other side dishes. Several outsiders ate it and said it was delicious. The stall owner later gradually perfected its ingredients and production and made it into snail noodles.

There are different opinions about the origin of snail noodles, which can no longer be verified, but almost every legend has a strong "snail complex" and "rice noodle complex".

In 2008, Liuzhou’s snail noodle hand-making skills were successfully applied for the second batch of the autonomous region’s intangible cultural heritage list. Huang Xiaoping, who was in charge of the application at the time, wrote in the application document: “Combining rice noodles and snails to make it The snail noodles are a great folk creation in Liuzhou, and their unique traditional handicrafts are Liuzhou's precious intangible cultural heritage.

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