Soy sauce snails in Ji'nan, Shandong
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once every year, the spring breeze blows, the swallow flies, the bright lake on the shore of the Daming Lake is green, and the light is shining. In a block of ponds in the North Garden of Ji'nan, Shandong, in a small stream, the water and grass are beautiful and ripples. Water produces snail, and the dialect of Jinnan dialect is called "screw". Snail is delicious, and it is the traditional flavor of Ji'nan in spring, summer and autumn. In the past years, peddlers selling snail shells in the street under the shade of the street vendors. Two or three short tables, a few small plates, the diner sat down, the peddler scooped out a plate of snails from the big basin, and had a thin plate of triangular iron with the size of the nail. Take a snail to your mouth. A fresh juice of octagonal and cinnamon sauce is first filled with mouth, and then thin iron slices are used to peel the snail meat. The shell is big, the meat is small, the dish is finished, the aftertaste is endless, and another dish... A snail shell left behind. There's also a burdened seller, "soy snails!" Eight treasure chilli. " Follow the walk. The fresh aroma and long cry of the snail were floating on the market. This is a peddler with a boutique, which is an inverted "convex" cabinet with deep fried broad beans, soy sauce snails, fried peanuts, spiced fish, brine hair beans, eight treasure chilli and so on. Each pot is covered with white cage cloth and is clean and clean. When someone bought it, the peddler tore off a fresh lotus leaf and rolled it into a funnel.
spring snail gives birth in spring, and small snail develops in the female body, so it is better to eat when there is no small snail in the belly of the snail. Or in the early summer, the snails are produced, and the meat is tender. In those days, "Feng man Zi", who opened a small grocery store in the south of China, bought wine from soy sauce and snail every day. He also read "Qingming snail, which surpasses goose" in his mouth. In the evening light, he slowly peeled the spiral snails, the snails were slightly hard and fresh, with the taste of the soup. Although the meat was only a little bit small, the meat was sucking and chewing, and the taste was very long. Then squinting and looking at the old wine, the air was full of air.
there are also rural people pushing wheelbarrows, with both sides of the wicker basket filled with mud born snail, selling street and street. This is a small business from the outskirts of the shoal, there is no cost of small business, so every pound of snail prices. There are some humble families who seldom buy a pot of meat on a daily basis. They buy a big pot and cook a pot to make the two or three monkeys like children.
snails do not choose too big to buy, big snail meat old, eat bad, of course, too small to eat up, or the best, at the time in the Dragon Boat Festival. After buying the snail, it should be soaked in clear water to soak up the sand. A few drops of sesame oil can be poured into the basin, so that the sediment in the shell can be spouted clean. In the water, the snail will open the covered black pits, and slowly climb up with the suction cup along the tile wall. It's very interesting.
snail is the most troublesome thing before cooking is to cut its sharp tail, otherwise it will not attract fresh juice when eating. Before the pot is ready, first boil the snail with boiling water, remove it, control it dry and wait for it.
a oil pan, oil does not have to be too much, hot, put on the scallion, ginger, octagonal, cinnamon, and then into the spiral snail (some also add a few large fat to taste). Stir fry soy sauce and water. Cook on a small fire for about 20 minutes.
some people think that the snail meat is small, easy to be old and easy to shrink, to quickly stir up, but in fact, the meat in the oil is easy to shrink, after adding water, it will go up again, dry snail meat is not good. Soy sauce and water should be just immersed in snail, so that the soup can be permeated into the snail. It will be very tasty. Only one suction can absorb a packet of delicious soup is the enjoyment.