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Serpent Feast Of Guangzhou'S Food Culture

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Snake feast

Snake eating has been in south of the Five Ridges for more than 2000 years.

Some people think that Cantonese eating snake is a relic of "Nan man". It is not known that eating snake is one of the embodiment of human diet civilization.

Snake is not only delicious, rich in protein, nutritious and nourishing, but also has therapeutic functions.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen's "forest grass outline" recorded that snake meat can drive wind, activate blood, remove phlegm and dampness, replenish qi and replenish qi, and has certain curative effect on rheumatic arthritis, Qi deficiency and blood weakness.

Snake gall is a good medicine for eyesight, rheumatism, cough, phlegm and infantile convulsions.

Speaking of eating snakes, there is also a little interlude, saying that more than 100 years ago, there was a snake hunter in the Nanhai County near Guangzhou, called Wu Man, who was called "snake king full".

He has caught numerous snakes.

He thought, why not bring those snakes to Guangzhou, open a snake restaurant, so that the citizens of Guangzhou can taste the delicious of snake meat.

So in 1885, it opened in Guangzhou, China's first snake restaurant.

A dragon and a tiger in combat

It is a famous dish in snake food, which is mainly made of poisonous snakes. It is made from cobra, cobra and tree fig, which is made of stewed old cats and hens. It is very nutritious.

On the basis of this, snake restaurants are accompanied by mushrooms, Auricularia auricula, ginger and chrysanthemum. When people taste snake food, they also taste the fragrance of chrysanthemums.

Guangdong

There are more than 100 kinds of snakes. Only eight or nine kinds of cobra, RNAi, silver snake, tree fig, three string, snake, rhubarb, white snake and King Cobra are commonly eaten. Now they also eat sea snake, seal snake, Agkistrodon acutus and Agkistrodon acutus.

King Cobra has been around for more than 20 years.

The eye king snake is the two category of protected animals. Guangxi and Hainan are more protected. The supply of restaurants is said to be artificially raised, and Vietnam is also imported.

Among them, banyan, water law snake, rhubarb snake and white snake are non-toxic and the others are highly toxic.

Nowadays, the cooking techniques of snake food are becoming more and more sophisticated, and the ingredients are becoming more and more abundant. The snakes are not only matched with chickens, but also use the more than 10 kinds of cooking methods such as braised, fried, fried, steamed, steamed, fried and so on.

Snake king snake restaurant (No. 41~43) is the best place for Chinese and foreign tourists to eat snakes.

In addition, there are snake restaurants in Taihe Town, Baiyun District, and restaurants, restaurants and stalls spread all over the streets.

Friends who have not eaten snakes may try it and feel the delicious taste of snake meat.