Speaking of a city, in addition to its long history, profound cultural heritage, and beautiful scenery, food is also an unavoidable topic, because food is an inseparable part of a city. Every city has a proud gourmet food, Fujian Quanzhou is no exception, on the food snack is no less than any city. For those who have been to Quanzhou, they have been deeply impressed by the food here. Just as the so-called "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea", Quanzhou as a modern industrial and trade port city, a coastal city full of charm, where there are countless food snacks, and a wide variety, of which the soil shoot jelly is one of the most representative traditional flavor snacks in Quanzhou.
Clay shoot jelly is a very representative food snack in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, is a unique product of the processing of bamboo shoots made of frozen products, looks a bit like the pork skin jelly and jelly we usually eat, it is crystal clear, eat tender and smooth, is a rare delicacy, loved by the locals, but as many foreigners to eat this bamboo shoot jelly is really to summon up a lot of courage, many netizens will also be the soil shoot jelly play called "heavy taste snack", can eat it and really admire you are a man.
Seeing here, some people will inevitably wonder, isn't it just a snack, is there such an exaggeration? Don't underestimate this snack, it's not too late to see it. The delicacy of earthen shoot jelly is very deceptive, at first hearing the name gives people the first feeling that it is related to bamboo shoots, but in fact, it has nothing to do with bamboo shoots. Earth shoots are also known as tu shoots, the scientific name is called coca-tasty leather cyst star worm, not bamboo shoots are not the sand worms said by many people, it is born in the beach sand cave, looks like a section of earthworms, is a very precious food, known as "animal ginseng". The raw material used in the authentic Quanzhou traditional flavor snack soil shoot jelly is this earth shoot.
In the streets and alleys of Quanzhou, there are many stores and stalls selling clay shoot jelly, but also because of the amount of ingredients used in each household, the price varies from taste to taste, and the general price is 10 yuan a bowl. Soil shoot jelly is not troublesome to make, the soil shoots caught from the sand, put into the water for a day, let it spit out the sand impurities in the abdomen, take out the tool to crush, roll out all the internal organs and debris into the water to wash, when it is white, fish up, put in a pot of boiling water, boil for 2-3 minutes, the soil shoots and pig skin have the same high degree of collagen, after boiling into a small bowl, after natural cooling, it solidifies into "soil shoot jelly", of course, except in summer, because the weather is not good to freeze, Place in the refrigerator to set it up.
The reason why many outsiders are difficult to accept is precisely because this earthen shoot looks scary, the star worms in the well-made earth shoot jelly are clearly visible, it looks like an earthworm that has been cut off to make people's scalps tingle, but if you pluck up the courage to eat one, you will find that it looks scary and delicious to eat, especially after being accompanied by soy sauce, coriander, sweet sauce and other condiments, the taste becomes particularly delicious.
For this Quanzhou "dark dish" soil shoot jelly, people who love him eat it twice, and eat 5 bowls at a time feel unsatisfied; and for people who do not eat it, most of them do not like its taste, but because they dare not try it easily. If you go to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, do you dare to try this traditional snack? I really respect you for being a man if you can eat it.