There is a magical "little snowflake" floating on a piece of bright red beef. Since 21, this kind of variety, which is called snowflake beef according to its appearance, has been popularized in Wuhan in an instant and has become a "luxury on the tip of the tongue". Restaurants are set according to the specifications of ten pieces, and the price of four or two pieces of meat ranges from one or two hundred yuan to one thousand yuan.

Since p>21, high-end hot pot restaurants such as Xixiyuan No.1, Caojingjing and Yueding Restaurant have started to sell snowflake beef at various prices. In Yueding Restaurant, the price of snowflake beef in this restaurant ranges from 68 yuan to 688 yuan, and the most expensive one is "eye meat". According to chef Mei Xingkui, the eye meat is a piece of meat on the back of a cow. The eye meat of each cow is only one or twenty kilograms, which tastes very good, so it is also the most expensive.

Mei Xingkui's operation process: firstly, put ice on the plate, then cut thin pieces of beef and gently put them on. Each piece of meat should be stretched to make it look more beautiful like snowflakes. "When this variety first came, we didn't know how to put it, because it was good to cut it as thin as possible, but it was too thin to collapse and unsightly." A plate of beef is fixed as ten pieces, and the weight of the plate is about four Liang, and the price is 688 yuan (equivalent to about 172 yuan per catty).

In Hankou Caojingjing Hotpot Restaurant, snowflake beef is also the main brand. Besides being used to rinse hot pot, a beef with a weight of about 72 yuan and a price of 988 yuan in the store tastes like ice cream when eaten raw. Wang Xiaofeng, the general manager of the store, said that the snowflake beef was actually named after its appearance. The so-called "snowflake" is the beef with obvious red and white, which looks like marble. Snowflake beef originated in Japan and cattle, and a number of independent brands of "Snowflake Beef" have emerged in China, such as Xuelong Black Cattle in Dalian, Qinbao in Shaanxi, Benfu in Yanbian, Yuxiangyuan in Beijing, Yiliyuan in Shandong, Hongan, Qinhao and many other brands. In Jiangcheng market, the black beef from Dalian is the main source. The black beef was bred by introducing Kobe beef from Japan, obtaining fertilized embryos from Limousin cattle from France, and then transplanting the embryos into Fuzhou cattle from Dalian, China. This breed of black cattle sleeps in soft beds, listens to music, drinks beer and warm water, lives in a "five-star" fattening barn, enjoys various delicious feeds and grows in a comfortable environment. The price of better black beef is two or three hundred yuan per catty, and a cow weighing more than one thousand catties can buy an ordinary BMW.