Guangzhou cuisine snake feast
Guangzhou is a snake feast flavor Guangzhou, as early as 2,000 years ago, ancient Chinese learned to treat the snake pharmaceutical truth.Tang Dynasty (618-907) have been madness with poisonous snakes cure, but also to the pharmaceutical snake rheumatism, lung, stomach and vomiting and so on. Ming Li Shizhen in his book "Compendium of Materia Medica" also praise the delicious snake, the snake is not poisonous flesh visible.
Guangzhou there are several restaurants snake, which "loafing full" the most famous. This snake restaurant is the first owner Wu Man. 80 years ago, Wu Man was originally a snake, he later set up in Guangzhou, a small bamboo scaffolding, a snake is said that he will eat every day, called "loafing full." Customers come to the restaurant to eat favorite food is three snakes - cobra, krait, a snake squirrel. These three snakes are poisonous snakes. Kill the snake to remove the gall bladder purple snake in the abdomen with a sharp knife. Put wine in a small cup, customers pay directly swallowed (Snake can go eyesight rheumatism, high medical value. Gall bladder of a price equal to five-sixths of the whole snake). Then use a knife to gently snakes across the rest snake, smooth snake white then cut into small pieces or filaments, before and after only takes a few minutes.
According to reports, "loafing full" kill hundreds every day snake, snake year to be up to 30 tons. "Dragon and Tiger will" (aka "mate") is a snake meal dishes. "Dragon" refers to the snake, "Tiger" refers to the cat. There is another called "Dragon will" is snake meat and chicken with the cooking. If snakes, cats, chicken cooked together, also known as "dragon phoenix will." Snake dishes in the ingredients also increase the precious shark's fin, abalone, there are about 30 kinds of varieties. Various snake dishes color, smell, taste, shape and taste. Not only delicious food, but also cure fitness. Guangzhou snake restaurant every day to receive thousands of diners, many of them from Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. There are many European and American friends came to Guangzhou to taste snake meal, although some people have not eaten snake courage, willing to kill a snake a snake restaurant to watch the scene.