Snail powder is a flavor snack in Liuzhou, Guangxi, and it is the intangible cultural heritage of China and Guangxi. It is made of Liuzhou's unique rice flour, and is mixed with boiled snail soup with sour bamboo shoots, fungus, peanuts, fried yuba, day lily, fresh and tender vegetables and moderate sour and spicy taste. It tastes sour, spicy, fresh, cool and spicy, and has the special smell of sour bamboo shoots. In fact, the "unique taste" of snail powder comes from the ingredients of sour bamboo shoots and soup base.
The sour bamboo shoots in snail powder are fermented, such as stinky tofu, bean juice and pickled puffins. Are fermented before the symbolic taste appears. Bamboo shoots are sour after being soaked in salt water for a period of time. Sugar and protein in bamboo shoots are transformed into various amino acids, organic acids, aldehydes, alcohols and other substances after fermentation. Metabolites of certain amino acids will emit a gas that smells like rotten eggs, that is, "notorious" hydrogen sulfide, an odorous substance in fart. This is a major reason why snail powder tastes bad.
Another reason why snail powder stinks is that the soup base of snail powder is made of snails and pig bones. Snails themselves have a special taste. I bought it and put it in clean water for a day, but it still stinks after being brushed clean. After frying, the smell of spices masks part of the smell. Therefore, the whole seasoning of snail powder is biased towards the mouth, and its unique spicy and "smelly" taste makes many people "stay away from it", but those who know how to appreciate it will know that it is fragrant but not rotten, and it will make people salivate.