Is this way of eating a bit like the French eating snails? It should be one thing, right? Does it taste the same? I don't know if there are many Chinese like it?
A. "Twelve Bowls of Soup for a Snail Gong"
Dongting Lake area giant field snail, although one can not beat twelve bowls of soup, play a bowl of soup is not a little problem, at least the umami taste is enough...
"Twelve bowls of soup for a snail gong", this phrase is my grandmother's mantra, a metaphor for the miserliness of some people, or the fact that soup does not require many ingredients. My grandmother couldn't write her own name, and when she received the remittance, she could only stamp it like some old cadres. But her dishes are quite well cooked. She said she held the spoon at a 15-table banquet when she was younger.
On Dongting Lake, there are dense fishing boats for snails, and overfishing can cause some damage to aquatic ecology. The management of the fishery administration is an occasional fine...
Yueyang is a lakeside city, and the lakes and fields are full of snails. A few years ago, I went down to the lake with the fishing government boat, and I heard that the huge Dongting Lake had no fish to fight. Fishing boats from more than a dozen provinces are fishing for lake snails, and the lake snails in one boat are said to be sold to fish farmers in the lake area to feed fish, which is better than feed.
The lake snail is not as large as the field snail, turquoise, and the slightly larger fish can swallow it in one bite. The lake snail lives at the bottom of the lake, dragging with a trawl, and a net tow gets dozens of hundreds of pounds. Lake snails are eaten by fish, and people eat field snails.
When I was in elementary school, I spent it with my grandmother's little stir-fried snail meat. At that time, I mistakenly thought that my grandmother liked to eat snail meat, because snail meat had a special deep taste and excellent taste. It's not exactly what I imagined, mainly because of poverty. Snail meat is the cheapest of meats. My parents' salaries added up to half the salary of my officer-in-law, so my wife grew up eating snail meat.
Although snail meat is not a precious thing, it also has its own special features. Ancient saying cloud: Qingming snail, sai fat goose. On the eve of the Qingming Festival, in the Dongting Lake area, the snails became the freshest on the table, which was mouth-watering.
My grandmother often used different ingredients with small stir-fry, such as leeks, hollow cabbage stems, dried sweets, sauerkraut or waterlogged vegetables, which will have different flavors, but the agarwood aroma of snails is still dominant, a special aroma that cannot be forgotten for a lifetime.
Stir-fried snail meat with dried incense
Stir-fried snail meat with sauerkraut
The meat of the snail is rich and delicate, delicious, light and refreshing, which can be used as a large meal or a snack. With the gradual change of the south wind and the north wind, it is no longer a small family jasper that is "raised in the deep boudoir", and its value is bullish. My grandmother, who was good at making snail meat, was born in Xinhai, and when she died in the year of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, snail meat was already in the restaurants and night market stalls.
B. A grand ceremony triggered by snails
There is a small and exquisite bridge in Yueyang City, called the Three Eyes Bridge, which was built by a Yueyang Shangshu in the Ming Dynasty and later became an important bridge on the national highway. In the summer of 1974, when I was passing the Three-Eye Bridge on my way to work, I saw a lot of people fishing under the slope of the bridge, which was very lively.
Old photo of Yueyang Three-Eyed Bridge. The Wangjia River under the bridge runs through the city and flows into Dongting Lake.
The little friend said that his father said: At that time, Yueyang Foreign Trade received orders from Japan and wanted to import a large amount of snail meat from Yueyang. No one knows what the Japanese want to do, only that the snail meat is cheap and good, rich in nutrition, and has the effect of clearing heat, water and purpose.
Foreign trade mobilized many peasants to pick up field snails, two cents a piece, and a large number of them were purchased by the supply and marketing cooperatives. Now it seems that for a while, along with the economic crisis, it is estimated that the Japanese were forced into the storm of the field snail epidemic. There is not enough to eat in china, and it can only be imported from China. But only that time, it has not been since.
After foreign trade purchased the snails from the whole county, the organizers separated the snail meat, and then the foreign trade masters used a car to pull the snail shells to the Three-Eye Bridge, and poured them into the South Lake from the bridge railing. A few cars a day, a strong snail fishy smell filled the three-eyed bridge under the bridge, attracting fish full of fish.
The shell of the snail has a large egg, and it is estimated that the size was stuck at the time of acquisition. So the quiet Three-Eyed Bridge ushered in the grand ceremony of its life history: the fish in the water jumped up and rejoiced, the illegal anglers on the shore gathered 24 hours a day, and there was a conflict, which was really lively until the order was completed.
Less than a decade later, China's urban reforms invigorated the commodity economy, and snail meat became a popular dish in Hunan, and all restaurants in northern Hunan could order it. Can be stir-fried, steamed, and snail soup, reminding me of my grandmother's saying "a snail gong twelve bowls of soup"...
Later, another gust of wind entered the era of instigating snails.
C, instigating snail storm and daughter's snail powder.
The saucer is originally a flavor snack in Changsha, the impression is that it was popular in the 90s, and it has been solid for 20 or 30 years, and it is still the head cannon of Xiangbei Night Market today. Female foodies don't count when they eat out, and they have to make their own food at home. The raw materials for the production of snails are field snails, stone snails, etc., also known as "drinking snails".
The hotel sells elegant snails
Instigators at night market stalls
To make this, you have to use small snails, which are cooked together with shells. When eating, the tip of the finger is orchid-shaped, and a snail is twisted and sent to the mouth, and the snail meat slips into the mouth, leaving only the empty shell in the hand. Eating snails is simply a folk culture.
We Yueyang also has a peculiar way of eating, that is, to boil a large basket of small snails, anyway, not very valuable, placed there, who wants to eat a handful, like eating melon seeds, peanuts, slowly instigated.
A spicy snail that makes foodies scream
The people around me, each one of them is addicted to snails, and they deserve to eat. I actually calmed down because I ate too much when I was young. When you encounter a good snail meat on the table, at most clip one or two slices, chew carefully to see if it is the same taste as before. I have never eaten a snail, and I naturally do not like this way of eating.
The most popular popular snail powder
Among the foodies, a considerable number of stinky and strange people do not eat good dishes, and are stunned to eat what stinky tofu and stinky cinnamon fish, which has led to the same stinky Guangxi snail powder accidentally came to a big epidemic, and was eaten by the new cutting-edge group after 90.
My freshman daughter had a late-night snack. In those days when the epidemic was at home, every night Meituan had a snail powder. Later, the community was sealed, the takeaway brother could not come in, did not eat one night, and his temper was as smelly as snail powder. The next day I went to the supermarket to buy a few large bags of dried snail powder, soaked food by myself, and seemed to leave this.
There are also many people who don't like it, like me. My daughter's snail powder became a pile, and I didn't think to taste it. Whenever the daughter was huffing and eating, the strong smell that permeated the upstairs and downstairs was like the stink of the car of Yueyang Foreign Trade pouring snail shells towards the Three-Eye Bridge, how could this still want to eat it?
Ding, this snail is not another snail
On June 19, the state announced that the snail was upgraded to a national second-level protected animal. Netizens immediately fried the pan. What to do about the famous Guiyang night snack "fried snail"? Can you only order fried flower nails next time? More foodies are asking, "Can the snail powder still be long?" ”
Various plateau lakes in Yunnan
10 days later, Xinhua News Agency issued a voice: Wu Xiaoping, a professor in the department of biotechnology at the university, said that the "snails" we usually eat are completely different species from the snails that are included in the protection list this time.
Yunnan alpine lakes snails
This too.
The "snails" to be included in the second level this time have thorns on the shell and are not easy to reproduce. It only grows in the plateau lakes of Yunnan Province, such as Dianchi Lake and Erhai, and basically does not exist elsewhere. "Due to human activities and pollution, the species is currently endangered, with very little yield and in need of protection," the professor said. ”
The foodies then put their care into their stomachs. A big discussion, for the first time, a large-scale pry popularized the knowledge of snails. Don't say that there are still many varieties of snails in China, but it is a pity that netizens eat more and understand less.
A netizen said to the post: "If the snail is not cooked thoroughly, it will get schistosomiasis after eating it." This almost made me laugh. Where's that for it!
This is as ridiculous as yueyang wrote to the central government one year: "A yueyang aunt has never been exposed to epidemic water, but she is infected with schistosomiasis, most likely through tap water... The implication is that Yueyang also has to drink water from the drinking water reservoir like the capital.
Schistosomiasis loves, that's a snail, nothing else! There are so many varieties of snails in the world, and if you include the conch, it will be even more. It's a bit hard to popularize, and sometimes there are mistakes.
In 2008, when they went to Beihai, a group of 4 people was taken into a seaside black shop by the informant's brother. The master first threw the fish to death, and then forced us to order the fish, and if we didn't order it, we would lose money. A large conch of about 5 pounds charges 2500 yuan. One of us has to eat. Cut into slices and fry two large plates, the entrance is hard and tangled, and the taste is woody.
That time in the North Sea, I ate a little bigger than that
After a quarrel with the black heart shop, a meal was "discounted" from seven thousand to five thousand, and everyone said that they had not eaten enough. Since then, the city with the most beautiful beach in China has a bit of "that". He was especially afraid of eating seafood, and he did not dare to provoke it again.
Tips: "Do the dojo in the shell of the snail"
In 1142, the traitor Qin Ju killed the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei at the Fengbo Pavilion on the charge of "false accusations". The jailer Kui Shun, because of his sympathy for the loyalists who were bent on serving the country and died innocently, planned to risk burying the remains of Yue Fei and others, but where should they be buried? When I thought about it, my heart suddenly lit up: Why don't you bury them in a pile of snail shells?
Serve the country loyally
Lin'an people love to eat snails, and the leftover snail shells are thickly piled up everywhere.
After 20 years had passed, after Song Xiaozong ascended the throne, in order to buy people's hearts, he used heavy money to search for the bones of Yue Fei and others. When Kui Shun's son saw the notice, he quietly pasted a note next to the notice, which read: "If you want to find the bones of your loyal subjects, look in the shell of the snail." "
The people of Lin'an hated the traitors and revered the loyal subjects, and when they heard that the imperial court had made a dojo for Yue Fei and others, they flocked to worship in the original burial place. On the way, people asked each other, "Where exactly is the dojo today?" The one who knew said, "Do the dojo in the shell of the snail." "
This saying, which was later used to refer to complex scenes and events in narrow and simple places, was widely popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Figure from the network, invasion and deletion.