March and April every year are the freshest and juiciest times of the year. Young bamboo shoots are sprouting from the ground, pufferfish, eels, fish and shrimp are about to eat, and wild vegetables are lush... Of course, the delicacies of spring are not limited to bamboo forests, rivers, seas and fields.

There are also plump snails that live in the pond.

Presumably, people’s biggest understanding of snails is Liuzhou’s snail noodles. The soup of this smelly bowl of noodles is made from local stone snails in Liuzhou. It gets the taste of snails, but it is just like the fish-flavored shredded pork.

There is no fish in it, and there are no snails in the snail noodles.

But everyone knows that there are many other ways to eat snails, but let’s get to know snails first.

Snails are conical in shape, with a shell height of about 3 cm. They are small in size and have annular edges on their shells. They are mostly yellow-brown or dark brown in color. They mostly live in rivers, ponds, paddy fields and lakes. They are made of the epidermis of algae and other plants.

Because of its plump meat, it is known as the most delicious meat in the river.

Speaking of this, many people will confuse snails and field snails. In fact, they are two completely different snails.

In terms of origin, snails can be found almost all over the world, and snails are a species unique to a few areas in Yunnan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China; in terms of appearance, snail shells can grow to 7 or 8 centimeters or even larger, compared to 3 centimeters.

Snails are much smaller, and the surface of snails is not as smooth as field snails, with many spiral ribs. In terms of growth environment, field snails mostly live in shallow paddy fields or on the shore, while snails like to live crawling on the bottom of the water.

To eat one pound of abalone, it is better to eat ten pounds of snails, spiced and stir-fried... No matter how the snails are cooked, they are always born with a stock market atmosphere. The small snails also transform into different things in the hands of ordinary people.

The taste is very unique, no less delicious than seafood.

Every year before the Qingming Festival and around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is a good time to eat snails.

There are generally two ways to cook snails: with the shell on and with the meat out.

As the name suggests, the meat with the shell is eaten by sucking the meat and juice with the mouth, and it is a good drinker.

To produce the meat, the snails are cooked now, and the snail meat is picked out with a needle, or the snail shell is crushed with a stone roller to remove the meat, and then the snail meat is specially used to cook delicacies.