The saying "one mouse is three chickens" means that the nutritional value of one vole is higher than that of three chickens.

There is a saying that "eat one mouse, be three chickens" among the people in Lingnan, China, which describes that the nutritional value of voles is higher than that of chicken. In Guangdong, some people call voles "Jia Lu" and "Tian Lu", and there are more than 111 ways to eat them, such as boiled rat meat, steamed rat meat, fried rat slices in oil, asparagus fried rat slices, braised vole pot and so on.

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Before the outbreak of p>SARS, voles were sold in restaurants in Guangzhou, which was a popular dish, and there was even a nine-course "vole banquet". After SARS, Guangzhou reluctantly fasted on rat meat.

In Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian people eat live voles in winter and dried voles in summer, because voles are fat and suitable for living in winter. In summer, voles are thinner, so they are dried into voles to eat.

Ninghua dried mice are actually dried voles, which are processed by artificially captured voles. When the vole is caught, the hair is removed first, and then the intestines are removed. After washing, it is smoked and roasted with rice husk or rice sugar until it is yellow. Dried voles are not only delicious, but also rich in protein and nutrition.

almost all local people regard eating dried mice as a kind of enjoyment. Cooking methods are mostly accompanied by pork, winter bamboo shoots, garlic, ginger and water wine, which are fried and eaten. Especially those who love to drink, they regard it as a top quality with wine.

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