The Nanyue Notes "Different Rice" contains: Qiongzhou uses southern coconut powder as rice, which is called coconut cream rice.

Nan coconut is different from coconut trees. The shape, color and smell of its semen are similar to the powder of lotus root fern, so it is called Nan coconut powder.

Warm and tonic in nature, "Compendium of Materia Medica" considers Shenmu noodles to be beneficial.

So what does "Shenmue noodles" mean?

Synonyms of Shamu noodles ("Sea Medicine Materia Medica"), shagumi ("Sea Medicine Materia Medica"), Shagumi ("Tongya"), and Xiguomi ("Tongya").

The source is starch extracted from the pith of the palm plant sago palm.

Plant form: Sago palm, also known as: Shenmu.

Evergreen trees.

The stem is 10 to 20 meters high. Many sprouts sprout from the base of the stem. When young, the leaf sheath surrounding the petiole has hard thorns, which may also be lost due to gradual growth, so it can be divided into two types: "thorny" and "thornless".

The leaves are pinnate, quite like coconuts.

Conical flower bushes with large pedicels bearing many light red flowers, covered by yellowish-brown glossy scales, and fruits as big as plums.

It is mostly cultivated in the Nanyang Islands.

Preparation method: Cut the trunk before flowering, cut it into sections, break it longitudinally, soak it in the river, remove the outer bark, and take the pith part, and use the ordinary starch making method, through crushing, sifting, repeated rinsing, sedimentation, drying and other processes

Preparation of starch.

The purest ones are white in color, and the second ones are brown in color.

When the starch is dried in the sun until it is not very dry, it is broken and placed in cloth bags, shaken into fine particles, and then dried in the sun to become Western rice.

Those with pure quality and white color are called "Zhenzhu Xigu".