Snail powder has several flavors, such as spicy, fresh, sour and spicy. Liuzhou is rich in snails and loves to eat snails. Liuzhou people have been eating snails for hundreds of years. When they return to their hometown, they will always find a bowl of snail powder at the first time to solve their homesickness.

The name of snail comes from the bottom of soup. The soup base of snail powder is made of snails (snails), pig bones and medicinal materials. Snail meat is fresh, pork bones are fragrant, and spicy oil floats. Traditional side dishes include spinach or cauliflower, auricularia auricula, peanuts, sour bamboo shoots, yuba, pickled mustard tuber, day lily and sour beans. In addition, snail eggs and duck feet are available in snail powder shops. Snail eggs are cooked, shelled and put into snail soup to continue cooking, which has some delicious taste of snails.

Development history

Snail powder first appeared in the late 1970s. Although the history is not long, snails and rice noodles have a long history in Liuzhou. Liu Wen, who has been engaged in cultural relics archaeology in Liuzhou for more than 40 years, believes that from a small perspective, the historical and cultural development track of Liuzhou is a history of collecting edible snails. ?

More than 40 years ago, Chinese archaeologists found a large number of snail shell sediments in Bailiandong, Dalongtan Liyukou and other sites. "About 20,000 years ago, the Liujiang people living in Bailiandong began to catch snails for food and learned to use fire. Now the Bailiandong site still has the remains of primitive people' burning snails'. " Jiang Jinyuan, director of Liuzhou Bailiandong Cave Science Museum, said.