炒螺丝 Spicy Snails

炒螺丝 Spicy Snails

March 23rd, 2010 in Food by Chris 1

Pinyin: chǎo luó sī I have no love for the snail. Simply a slug with a shell, the edible variety lives in shallow pools of murky water eating a variety of plankton and carrying with them a variety of parasite’s that humans can host. The snails pictured above were roughly the size of golf balls [...]

Spiral Snails with Broccoli

XO酱炒螺片 Spiral Snails with Broccoli

December 15th, 2006 in Food by Chris 0

Pinyin: jiàng chǎo luó piàn Classifying this as seafood is a stretch cause the snails actually come from the river, and calling them spiral snails is quite a stretch as well. In actuality I don’t know what it really is. It’s certainly a snail like creature, I’m pretty sure it has a spiral shell, and [...]

Fried Leek with Snails

韭菜螺蛳肉 Stir Fried Leek with Snails

December 1st, 2006 in Food by Chris 0

Pinyin: Jiǔ Cài Luó Sī Ròu It’s hard to recommend snails to anyone. There’s too much American left in me, but honestly they aren’t that bad. In reality they don’t have a strong flavor to them. If you didn’t know better you could mistake them for mushrooms. Leeks are sort of strange to just eat [...]