This train was moving at a
snail's pace.
火车走得跟蜗牛一样慢。
Mary crumbled an empty
snail shell in her fingers.
玛丽用手指捏碎了一个空蜗牛壳。
They can see
snails.
他们能看到蜗牛。
Liuzhou, an industrial city in Guangxi and the birthplace of the pungent snail noodle, has built a neon-lit retro town that features shops where visitors can try on ethnic costumes and enjoy a dazzling array of folk culture activities after sunset.
China also has seen a booming export of characteristic foods, such as river snail rice noodle, self-heating hot pot and spicy gluten, thanks to the convenience of cross-border logistics and payment, Jimu News reported.
These include Huanjiang pork, Liuzhou snail noodles and Rong'an kumquats, Bi said.
Luosifen, or river snail rice noodles, is a signature street food in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
A report from People's Daily in 2020 said Liuzhou of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region sold bags of river snail rice noodle worth 11 billion yuan.
The sales revenue of supporting industries totaled 13 billion yuan, and that of brick-and-mortar river snail rice noodle stores was 11.8 billion yuan.
For a single brand alone, data from think tank Dolphin showed that in 2020, the sales revenue of celebrated rural video blogger Li Ziqi's personal brand surged 300 percent year-on-year to 1.6 billion yuan, among which 500 million yuan was generated from river snail rice noodle sales.
River snail rice noodles are just a subcategory of the rice noodle sector, which is growing into a 100-billion-yuan market.
Last February, "how much do Chinese people love river snail rice noodles" was among the hot topics on Chinese social network Weibo.
"Apart from river snail rice noodles in Guangxi, rice noodles from provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangdong and Hainan, also won the hearts of diners with diversified flavors, contributing to great rice noodle consumption in the market," Wang said.
As early as in 2016, Liuzhou was promoting the large-scale raw material production of river snail rice noodles, and has established localized production standards.
Currently, the plant's daily production of river snail rice noodles reached 3 million bags, of which one-fourth to one-third are for Li Ziqi's company.
Combining the traditional cuisine of the Han people with that of the Miao and Dong ethnic groups, Luosifen is a delicacy of rice noodles boiled with pickled bamboo shoots, dried turnip, fresh vegetables and peanuts in spiced river snail soup.
"Luosifen is traditionally made from river snail soup, but we have developed a new product that uses beef bone broth while maintaining the original flavor.