Picture of Snail Vermicelli with Fried Eggs:
Snail Vermicelli with Fried Eggs was invented by the people of Liuzhou and originated in the city of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Snail flour first appeared in the late 1970s, although the history is relatively short, but shirts and snails and rice noodles have been passed down for a long time in Liuzhou. Liu Wen, who has been engaged in cultural relics and archaeology in Liuzhou for more than 40 years, believes that, in a small way, Liuzhou's historical and cultural development trajectory is a history of collecting and eating snails.
Snail flour origin:
First appeared in the late 1970s. There are many claims about the exact origin of snail meal, and there are two more reasonable ones. The first is that in the mid-1980s, there was a grocery store on Jiefang South Road that also sold dry-cut noodles, and the clerk would take a handful of dry-cut noodles to the screw stall next door to cook them every morning. Later, when someone bought greens to go with the noodles, the granny at the screw stall thought the noodles tasted so good that she sold the snail noodles.
The second story is that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Gufu Street food market was the largest wholesale place for raw snails in Liuzhou, and later formed the Gufu Street night market. People in Liuzhou love snail and rice noodles, sometimes the owner of the night market would cook both snail and rice noodles, and some people like to add snail soup to the rice noodles, which is the prototype of snail noodles.