<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" >Why is bug-shaped food so popular in Zhanjiang?</h1>
Zhanjiang people love food, love to eat food, and can make food.
Many foreign friends always consult Zhanjiang about what local cuisines are available. In Zhanjiang, in addition to the more famous white cut chicken, as well as seafood such as marine fish and shrimp, there are also some particularly nutritious and delicious foods with insect-like images.
Regarding the insect-shaped cuisine, in Zhanjiang, the more popular is of course the three folk delicacies of sandworms, and worms, and mud ding.
Why do Zhanjiang people like to eat these three kinds of insect-like delicacies so much? In the folk, people think that these three cuisines are very nutritious.
First of all, say sandworm said. In the folk, people believe that the effect of wild sandworm dried: quenching thirst, lowering blood pressure, nourishing yin and lowering fire, clearing the lungs and replenishing deficiency, kidney deficiency and waist pain, chest tightness and phlegm, children wetting bed (frequent nocturnal urine) and women's postpartum milk scarcity and other symptoms, can be treated with sandworm diet. Modern nutrition has also confirmed that sandworms have the effect of lowering blood lipids and destroying the growth of cancer cells.
Sandworms can be boiled porridge, soup, and steamed with vermicelli.
Mud
Mud, also known as mud worms. Growing on the tidal flats where the coastal rivers enter the sea and the confluence of brackish water, it is two or three inches long, its appearance is rough, the color is black and brown, the thick one is like an index finger, the thin one is like a rice stem, about the length of a finger; it also drags a "tail" that is one or two inches long, as thin as a matchstick, and stretches freely, shaped like a nail, so it is also called earth nails and mud dice.
The flesh of the mud worm is crisp and tender, the taste is delicious, and the nutritional value is extremely high. Generally, you can make diced pickled mud, stir-fried diced mud, and pot porridge.
Mud porridge
and worms
It grows in the topsoil layer of the paddy field at the junction of brackish water, feeds on rotten grass roots, and breaks out of the soil when the rice spikes are planted in the morning and evening, so it is called a grass worm. There are two breeding seasons in the year, namely the tidal period of April and May and the ninth and tenth months of the lunar calendar. Grass worm protein and fat content is high, contains a complete range of amino acids, rich in essential amino acids, contains a variety of mineral elements, grass worms also contain rich iron, phosphorus and vitamin B and other nutrients, high nutritional value. And worms can be fried, you can also fry eggs.
Stir-fried and worm
and worm omelette
Well, this food sharing is here. If you come to Zhanjiang, you may wish to try it.