🍽️ Snail Duck-Foot Pot

Duck feet braised in snail broth, spicy gelatinous.

Snail Duck-Foot Pot is a Liuzhou speciality from Guangxi, sharing its DNA with the city's famous river-snail noodles. River snails are simmered with sour bamboo shoots, dried chilies and spices, into which duck feet are braised after being deep-fried. The feet develop a wrinkled skin that soaks up the broth, becoming gelatinous and tender enough to slip off the bone, while the soup is hot, sour, savoury and redolent of snail stock. Served bubbling in a clay pot with sour shoots and taro, it is a favourite late-night street dish of Liuzhou, eaten with rice or beer and loved by anyone who craves bold sour-spicy flavour.