Stone Horse Fandou

Stone Horse Fandou

　　Fandou refers to peanuts. The people of Shima use a rather unique method to make fandou: first, they crush the mud from old house bricks (which must be nitrous) and mix it with salt and peanuts, then boil them together. After boiling, the mixture is scooped out and rolled again in the same mud powder, mixed with rice slurry to help the mud stick firmly to the peanuts. It is then dried until semi-dry and placed in a special bamboo container to be roasted over a fire until completely dry. The peanuts made this way have an incredibly fragrant taste that is absolutely unmatched by the red-clay peanuts found in markets. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of the production process and the fact that the peanuts tend to stick to the mud when eaten, they are rarely produced nowadays. (Xingning)