We expect to see the "rolling stones" put in our heads on stage, but if, God forbid, you find a stone in the dish we ordered at the restaurant, we will probably break one of our teeth and threaten the place with a lawsuit. So what would you say if we told you that a dish, whose main raw material is stones, has recently become a hit in China and is even considered a kind of desirable delicacy?
Street Food in China,
The dish, which has been called "the hardest dish in the world" (it's not hard to understand why in this case), is served as a stir-fried dish whose main ingredient is stones. It comes from Hubei Province in China. How do you even approach eating such a dish without risking suffocation or a broken tooth? Well, the recommended way is sucking the stones. Fans of the dish claim that this is how the rich and spicy flavors that characterize it are released.
The stones should be sucked and then spit out. Hence the origin of the name of the dish Suo Diu, which means "suck and get rid" from simple Chinese. The growing interest in the dish has made it, not surprisingly, viral. Videos of surfers tasting it and documenting the experience began to appear one after another on various social networks in China, including XiaoHongShu and Weibo.
Other videos show street vendors providing passersby with a "street version" of the dish, drizzling chili on hot stones with garlic sauce and chopped pepper. The sellers often turn the preparation process into a real show, singing and dramatizing the preparation. The dish is served in small boxes and costs about 16 yen (about $2.30).
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Sỏi đá có thể làm thức ăn và bán cho thực khách? Khó tin nhưng có thật. Đó chính là Suodiu, với thành phần chính là sỏi đá được bán trên đường phố ở tỉnh Hồ Bắc, Hồ Nam với giá khoảng 50.000 đồng...
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If you were wondering where the unique dish came from, its ancient roots tell a centuries-old culinary tradition that was passed down orally from generation to generation by seafarers. It was born from food shortages they experienced while transporting goods. "That's how they found joy in bitterness," explained a media item covering the dish on CNN.
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