Why does snail powder stink? Why is snail powder so smelly?

For friends who eat snail powder for the first time, the biggest feeling will be, why is snail powder so smelly? In fact, snail powder itself is not smelly, but other materials in the powder are sour bamboo shoots and smelly bamboo shoots.

Why does snail powder stink?

The smell of snail powder is mainly due to the addition of sour bamboo shoots, also known as smelly bamboo shoots. It smells natural, but it is healthy and delicious. Guilin rice noodles are not authentic without sour bamboo shoots. I still remember when I was very young, I didn't like snail powder for the first time. I feel smelly and disgusting, but all my friends like it, so sometimes I have to go with them. But snail powder is a magical food, and most people will fall in love with it only after eating it for three or four times, and they will fall in love with it completely. . Me too. Snail powder is a specialty of Liuzhou, Guangxi, and has a high status in Guangxi. The same is true at school. In our school, half of the mainlanders and nearly one-third of the northerners sell snail powder in the north and south canteens, and there are long queues in the north and south. I know a senior. She said that she vomited after eating snail powder for the first time, and now there is no soup left, and she eats it at least three times a week.

As a Liuzhou person (does anyone know that snail powder is a snack in Liuzhou? ), I must correct a statement first, this is a special fragrance, not bad smell. For me, it smells like home.

This taste is sour bamboo shoots. Some foreigners don't like it, some say it smells like stinky tofu, and some say it smells like rot. Tell the boss not to put sour bamboo shoots in snail powder ... snail powder without sour bamboo shoots is equivalent to an owl without a cat's head and an iris without a butterfly. Do you know that?/You know what? (Actually, snail powder doesn't have to have snails, but it can't be without sour bamboo shoots. The snail powder in Beijing is made of a shellfish instead of snail soup. I estimate that the most authentic snail powder can be 85.6%, and if there is no sour bamboo shoots, it is 0%. Sour bamboo shoots are fermented bamboo shoots, which will become this taste after a certain process of fermentation. If you understand and appreciate its connotation, you will know that it is fragrant but not rotten, smells appetizing, drools when you think of it, and rolls when you eat it.

An author named Qingsi published an article entitled "The Taste of Sour Bamboo Shoots" in Beijing Youth Daily, which was very detailed and vivid. Excerpts are as follows:

Speaking of it, sour bamboo shoots are also something that has been precipitated by history. Gu Xiu, an Amin, recorded a sour bamboo shoot from Hainan Island in "The Remnants of Sea Tea": "Picked sour bamboo shoots are as big as arms, soak them in boiling soup for two or three days, take them out and cook them in vinegar. Someone into zhongzhou, into a rare thing ... "

In the eighth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Aunt Xue entertained Baoyu at home. After drinking, she specially made sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup to sober him up. As an appetizer, Baoyu gulped down two bowls. Inferred from this plot, in the Qing Dynasty, sour bamboo shoots probably belonged to a rarity on the dining table of a large family. Sour bamboo shoots are more common in the south, especially in Guangxi. Some local snacks in Bagui are served with sour bamboo shoots, such as Laoyou noodles in Nanning, snail powder in Liuzhou, Guilin rice noodles, Dong hot and sour soup and so on.

In addition, Vietnam, which is connected with mountains and rivers in Guangxi, is also addicted to eating sour bamboo shoots, producing a kind of sour bamboo shoots with yellow skin and black beans. The mountains in northern Guangxi are surrounded by water, and there are deep bamboos in Maolin. Some bamboo shoots weigh more than ten kilograms, which has the natural conditions for brewing sour bamboo shoots.

When I was a child, my family lived by the Liujiang River. It is often seen that ships carrying sour bamboo shoots from Rongshui and Sanjiang dock, and sour bamboo shoots are packed in wooden barrels. I swim in the river and occasionally catch sour bamboo shoots from the underwater beside the boat. The method of making sour bamboo shoots is very simple. After the bamboo shoots are shelled, they are cut into sections and put into a big crock, soaked in rice soup, and then the crock cover is sealed and soaked for about half a month. But in the process of brewing, you can't touch a little oil, otherwise the rice soup will bubble and the sour bamboo shoots will deteriorate and stink.

Snail powder that smells much worse than snail powder.

I don't know when snail powder began to replace turkey noodles and become a new round of online celebrity fast food! As a veteran foodie, how can you not try? However, as great as the reputation of delicious snail powder is its smelly taste. There are many jokes on the internet. A little friend is cooking snail powder at home. Her husband asked her why the living room and dining room smelled like shit. . .

In fact, I heard about snail powder when I was in college ~ It was a classmate in Liuzhou, Guangxi who introduced snail powder to everyone as a special food in my hometown ~ I was very curious at that time! I wonder how it tastes. At that time, I didn't know there was instant snail powder such as instant noodles, so I missed it ~ later, a snail powder was opened near the school! I was excited to take my boyfriend with me to see if it was delicious. As a result, as soon as we entered the door, our steps froze, because it really stinks! It stinks! ! ! Later, my boyfriend pulled me out, and my first attempt to challenge snail powder was aborted.

Until recent months, snail powder began to make a splash on the Internet. Many friends bought instant snail powder to cook at home, and my heart began to itch again! My little friend @ Yang crooked buy buy is a sister who loves snail powder. She told me that there is also a shop specializing in snail powder in Shanghai! I thought that fast food was definitely not as delicious as the freshly cooked food, so I begged her to take me to pull weeds! [giggles]

Store name: Jiawei spiral lions powder

Coordinates: No.621-623 Anyuan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai

Signature: snail powder

Features: Entry-level snail powder

This shop was actually introduced to us by a beautiful sister, Xiaobaozi. She said it was delicious, so we came ~ We all ordered the original snail powder set meal, in addition to snail powder, there was turtle paste ~ We ate the snail powder with strong taste and easy to get angry, just enough to reduce the fire ~

Let's start with the question that everyone is most concerned about-is it stinky? [snickering R] [snickering R] To tell the truth, I was scared before eating, but when I got to the door of the store, I pushed the door open and found that it was nothing. It smells strange, but it's still good. I can stand it ~ [snickering R][ snickering R][ snickering R]. That's why I said this store is an entry-level snail powder. If you are really afraid of strangeness,

Let's talk about the taste of this snail powder ~ there are still quite a lot of ingredients, such as sour bamboo shoots, fried bean skin, peanuts, lichens and so on. And the amount of rice noodles is also very large. Girls can eat enough after eating a bowl! [snickering R][ snickering R] The soup should be cooked with screws, and it smells like snails, but it's not particularly rich ~ but it's quite fresh ~

Look at Guiling Ointment ~ It is slightly bitter, but it is not completely inedible. Eat the heavy taste of snail powder, just to clear your mouth. The soup base of Guiling Ointment should have jasmine iced green tea [Laughter] [Laughter]. That's the smell anyway ~

Summarize! This snail powder shop has other flavors besides the original snail powder, such as beef, barbecued pork and fried screws ~ in short, the selection is still very rich ~ and there is no particularly strong flavor. Friends who are curious about snail powder can try it ~

Why are there no snails in snail powder?

Rice noodles and noodles themselves have no taste, and they all rely on a bowl of soup to enhance their taste, so there is a saying that "watching a play and listening to the cavity, eating noodles and drinking soup".

The soup of snail powder is made by stir-frying washed snail and mixing with spices such as bone, pepper, onion, garlic, ginger, perilla, tsaoko, fennel and Amomum villosum. Each store has its own formula, and the proportion and order are particular. According to the research of Textile and Food College of Sichuan University, the best raw material ratio of snail powder soup is pork leg bone 15%, snail 12.5%, fermented vegetables 8% and spices 2%.

A wonderful bowl of snail powder soup, with clear color, light brown, mellow taste, moderate salty taste and refreshing aftertaste. But specific to each store, the taste of soup head is actually different. Therefore, recommending snail powder restaurant is a thankless thing. Sour and spicy, salty and sweet, everyone has his own good taste.

Just like there is no fish in the fish-flavored shredded pork, there is no double suicide in the husband and wife's lung slices, snail powder is only cooked with snails, and the snail meat melts in the soup and cannot be seen in the bowl. However, according to some netizens, when snail powder first came out in the early 1980s, there were cooked snails in every pot on the street snail powder stall. After the guests sit down, first pass a bowl of snail stew. After eating, the powder will be fine.

Liuzhou people are good at eating snails. Snail chicken feet, snail eggs and snail fish are all characteristics of Liuzhou. Zhuang people have a long history of eating snails. Professor Pei Wenzhong, a paleoanthropologist, unearthed many ancient human fossils and snail shells eaten by the ancients in An Baili Cave, Liuzhou. The tail of the snail's shell was knocked off. These fossils belong to the early "newcomers" of matriarchal clan commune in primitive society, and belong to the late Paleolithic in archaeology [1].

Snails used in snail powder refer to stone snails, which grow in river mud and feed on aquatic plants such as moss. The key to the delicacy of snail soup is how to deal with snails. Pretreatment procedures include sand spitting and tail removal. After collecting snails, they must be soaked in clear water for two days. A piece of pig iron can be added to water. The role of pig iron is to promote the stone snail to spit sand and inhibit the growth of Schistosoma japonicum parasitic in the snail. After the stone snail spits out the sand, it is necessary to cut off the snail tail, because the mud usually gathers in the snail tail [2].

Where does the taste of snail powder come from?

Some people describe the taste of snail powder like this-cooking powder at home, eating pots and bowls and chopsticks are stinky, and even clothes and hair are stinky, as if they had been in a toilet without water for a month. Sanjiang's kitchen feels a bit exaggerated. The rich taste of snail powder actually comes from pickled sour bamboo shoots. Without sour bamboo shoots, snail powder has no soul.

China on the Tip of the Tongue once introduced the production of Liuzhou sour bamboo shoots. Choose big sweet bamboo shoots with "big and beautiful meat", supplemented by mountain spring water specially drawn from the mountains, marinate them in a big crock and soak them for about half a month. But you can't get a little oil in the brewing process, otherwise it will bubble and sour bamboo shoots will deteriorate and stink. Some people also pickled bamboo shoots with rice soup, and the pickled bamboo shoots are darker in color.

Liuzhou people's preference for sour bamboo shoots is hard for people who have never been exposed to sour bamboo shoots to imagine and understand. There is an article entitled "The Taste of Sour Bamboo Shoots" that reads:

When I was a child, my family lived by the Liujiang River. It is often seen that ships carrying sour bamboo shoots from Rongshui and Sanjiang dock, and sour bamboo shoots are packed in wooden barrels. I swim in the river and occasionally catch sour bamboo shoots from the underwater beside the boat. ("Beijing Youth Daily", author Qing Si)

Why is the authentic snail powder so powerful?

Guangxi rice noodles can be divided into two types in shape: round powder and cut powder. Authentic snail powder is a round powder made of aged rice. Old rice lost its oiliness and colloid. After being processed into rice flour, it tastes very elastic.

Powder is dry powder, so it should be soaked in cold water in advance, otherwise it will be broken and inelastic after being cooked. A bowl of good powder should be of moderate thickness, moderate hardness, chewy and not sticky or waxy.

What are the ingredients and side dishes of snail powder?

The ingredients of snail powder are very rich. In addition to sour bamboo shoots, there are sour beans, peanuts, fungus and day lily, which are very suitable for oil wheat vegetables.

Avocado is what we often call "tofu bubble". Oil nuts in snail powder have been around since 1990s. When avocado is full of soup, take a bite, the flexible taste is mixed with the soup, and there is a feeling of eating peeing beef balls.

As for the perfect oil wheat dish, it is actually controversial. There are lettuce, spinach and fungus in the snail powder eaten in Sanjiang kitchen.

In addition to these basic ingredients, snail powder has a variety of side dishes to choose from. It is said that snail powder used to be from Tai Su, so many meat dishes were added, such as quail eggs stewed with duck intestines and pork hands stewed with chicken feet and duck feet. Sanjiang kitchen likes snail powder and duck feet best.

Why does snail powder make people want to stop?

The reason behind being addicted to snail powder is the same as eating stinky tofu. It is sour bamboo shoots that endow snail powder with personality, but sour bamboo shoots are fermented food. The process of fermentation produces delicious amino acids, which makes food delicious, and the smell of eating is the taste memory written in human genes. Therefore, it is better to say snail powder than the "bad smell" of sour bamboo shoots.

The spicy taste of snail powder is also one of the reasons for addiction. Although the soup in the snail powder shop is not all spicy, the heavy taste is already one of the labels of snail powder. Spicy can bring people pleasure and stimulate people's taste buds. One chopstick breathes, the other chopstick sweats, and the third chopstick makes the whole person transparent.

In addition, snail powder is cheap and light, but rich in content. It is like software with strong compatibility, but it has not lost its personality. After the baptism of snail powder soup and Chili oil, any vegetarian and meat-like ingredients are like adding aphrodisiac.

Only food with personality can impress people. In May this year, the local food safety standard of Liuzhou snail powder (standard code: DBS 45/034-20 16) issued by the Guangxi Autonomous Region Food Safety Standards Review Committee was implemented, trying to comprehensively regulate snail powder. However, snacks in China have two characteristics, one is that they are out of shape when they leave the country of origin, and the other is that they cannot be completely standardized. I'm afraid I still have to go to Liuzhou to eat such authentic snail powder.