The mud snails produced in Doulong Port are of the best quality. They have no sand in their bodies and are full of meat. There is a layer of white fat between the internal organs and the flesh. They are called the treasure of mud snails. Especially in midsummer, they are most suitable for making mud snails.
According to legend, there was a "lawsuit" in history where they had a banquet of eating mud snails and steamed buns. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar named Xiang in Funing City who was officially named "Yunnan Yongchang Magistrate". On the day he took office, local celebrities held a grand banquet , to catch the wind and wash away the dust for him. At the banquet, everyone had a white steamed bun next to the tableware. After the banquet started, Magistrate Xiang thought the steamed bun was the first dish, so he took a bite, while others used the steamed bun to wipe their chopsticks. Several people Still laughing secretly! Magistrate Xiang thought to himself: It is a trivial matter for me to be rude. It is not allowed by God for you to waste food like this. You must teach them a lesson. Afterwards, Magistrate Xiang wrote a letter to his hometown in Funing and asked people to send three altars. Drunk Niluo held a big banquet to invite the same team as last time. The first dish at the banquet was Niluo. When the banquet started, Magistrate Xiang pointed to Niluo and politely asked for the dish: "Everyone, I will prepare some wine." , please try the local specialties!" After saying that, he started eating with chopsticks. No one at the banquet had ever seen a mud snail, and they didn't dare to ask for advice due to their dignity, so they had no choice but to pick up the mud snail and put it into their mouths. , even the outer shell, internal organs and brains were swallowed up. Of course, Zhifu Xiang had a way. He ate one after another. After each meal, he moved the cuff of his left hand to his mouth and kept calling for the guests to eat. Wait until each dish was finished. , he raised his left sleeve and said: "Please remove the shells!" As he spoke, he poured the mud snail shells into the plate with a splash. The guests were shocked, they even ate all the shells. What shells are you removing? Look. With a look on his face, Magistrate Xiang deliberately blamed himself and said: "It's my fault. Mud snails are a specialty of the seaside. I didn't explain how to eat them. It's not me, I'm sorry! Sorry!" Then he introduced the method of making and eating mud snails. Finally , his face sank and he said: "You are all scholars, don't you know how to cherish food! Although you have thousands of hectares of grain fields, you know that a porridge and a meal are hard to come by! At the last dinner, you had steamed buns to wipe your chopsticks with, I I felt very sad and deliberately took a bite of the steamed bun, but I didn’t know that someone was ignorant and laughed at me for not knowing etiquette!” What he said made everyone present blush. From then on, steamed buns were no longer used to wipe chopsticks at any banquet inside and outside Yongchang Mansion.