Sea Worm Jelly,a Snack Colloidal and Delicious
2 min readUpon the arrival of Xiamen,one might be recommended to try the local snack “Sea Worm Jelly”,since the people in Xiamen rank it as the top snack in that city.
As the story goes,the first one to make this snack was our national hero Zheng Chengong.When Zheng Chenggong was assigned by the Emperor to attack and retrieve Taiwan Island,there occured a shortage of supplies for a period of time.However,as Zheng was well-known for his integrity and strict rules over his troops,he was determined to receive no aids from the local folks.The troops were settled down near the seashore,and the soldiers came to dig out many sea worms from the sand so that Zheng only had .some soup boiled with such worms.Zheng also forgot to have meals due to his worries about recovering the lost territory,in which circumstance his subordinates would always have to heat the soup again and again for Zheng.
Once,Zheng ordered his subordinates not to heat again the soup and decided to have the cold soup directly.To his surprise,the cold jelly tasted even better than the warm one-an accidental invention of a new snack.Thereafter,the sea worm jelly began to spread out and has been improved constantly by the later generations, making the famous”Sea Worm Jelly”available to us now.
It is said that the sipunculid worm used to make this jelly is only found along the coastal beach of Xiamen,Haicang and Anhai areas in China,with the ones from Baigu Harbor of Xiamen are the most famous.With good material and further processing,the superior delicay can be made.
