The origin of snail noodles is as follows: 1. In the mid-1980s, there was a grocery store on Jiefang South Road that also sold dry-cut noodles. In the morning, the clerk often took a handful of dry-cut noodles to cook at the grandmother’s snail stall next door. Later, someone bought vegetables.

After mixing it, Grandma Wang Ji, who sold snails, thought the noodles tasted very good, so she started selling snail noodles.

2. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Gubu Street Vegetable Market became the largest distribution center for wholesale snails in Liuzhou City. Audiences at the nearby Workers’ Cinema liked to hang out nearby after the show, 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.

3. Snail noodles originated in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty writer Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Liuzhou, Guangxi Province as the governor. Due to his bad mood, acclimatization, no desire to eat, lack of health, and imperial clothes, he was at a loss.

Zhou Wanfu, the chef of Fuzhong at the time, was very anxious and didn't know what to do.

One day he went to the Liujiang River to wash vegetables and picked up a few snails.

After returning home, he carefully prepared a bowl of snail soup for Liu Zongyuan.

Liu Zongyuan liked it very much and it has been widely circulated since then.