Straits Guide (Reporter Xue Yang Text/Photo) The mainland internet celebrity snack Liuzhou snail noodle shop, which has been popular all over the country, has also become very popular in Taiwan in recent years. On the main online shopping platform on the island, the snail lion noodle shop with sales of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands brings delicacies from Guangxi, mainland China to thousands of households on the island. Offline physical stores, related restaurants in Taipei that operate snail selend noodles are generally booming, and snack operators support their family with this mainland food.
There is a Liuzhou snail noodle shop on Guangzhou Street in Taipei City. Every time I come to visit Longshan Temple and pass by the store, I always see many diners queuing. The store owner Wei Qingwen is from Guangxi and has been in Taiwan for more than 20 years. At that time, she missed her hometown taste very much, but she couldn't find an snail noodle store in Taiwan. In the end, she decided to do it herself and turn the taste of her day and night into a delicious food that is within reach. Snail noodle has become a landscape in the daily life of Taipei citizens.
Walking into the rumpled lion shop, the map of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region posted on the wall is particularly eye-catching, and it has become a window for the people on the island to understand Guangxi. Wei Qingwen introduced that the rice noodles used in the store are currently imported from Guangxi. As for snails, since they cannot be purchased from the mainland, they use wild stone snails grown in eastern Taiwan.
Wei Qingwen made the most authentic flavor when she first opened the store, but the original flavor was heavy. Salty, spicy, sour and oily were not easily accepted by Taiwanese people who advocated a light diet, so there were slight adjustments. Originally, snail noodles did not contain meat, but now on the menu, there are snail noodles with flavors such as braised beef , pork, fat intestine , etc., which have Taiwanese characteristics.
I ordered a beef snail lion noodles, 120 NT$ . The portion is very large, sour and smelly, and the taste is similar to that in mainland China. The beef inside is very large, just like the beef noodles in Taiwan. It is amazing to be able to eat authentic Guangxi snail powder on Taiwan Island .
Watching the endless stream of customers in the store, Wei Qingwen was very pleased. More than ten years of hard work finally brought about a lot of customers today. The mainland spouse brings the food in his hometown to Taiwan. If it is done well, it can support the whole family.
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