My local chinese buffet has them

Post #270,385 by crazy 10/15/06 5:07:21 PM Reply	My local chinese buffet has them Still in the shell. In a slightly sweet garlic sauce. They chop off the back end of the spiral. This allows me to suck out the little buggers, spitting out the flat stiff end of the foot (who knows what it is called, probably Bionerd). Yummy. I can go through a hundred or so before becoming annoyed with the hassle factor.
Post #270,387 by Andrew Grygus 10/15/06 5:53:40 PM Reply	The ones with the points knocked off . . . . . are usually top shells, like these from Vietnam which were packaged frozen in a coconut milk and mint sauce. These are sea snails and nowhere near the ecological problem the apple snails are. You wouldn't want to suck apple snails because the stuff up beyond the foot doesn't taste very good. With the top shells you have to suck them out because the foot retreats out of reach when cooked. And that door that closes the snail shells is call an operculum. [image\|http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/img/sf_top02i.jpg\|\|\|\|] [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #270,388 by crazy 10/15/06 6:01:08 PM Reply	Mine were different Black, rounder, no ridges, fewer externally visible twists.
Post #270,389 by Andrew Grygus 10/15/06 6:06:11 PM Reply	I'll keep an eye out for those. I think I know a buffet that may have them - haven't seen them in the stores yet. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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