Hong Kong CNN —Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media. Patrons are supposed to suck on the small rocks to relish the rich and spicy flavor of the dish, which originated in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei. They are instructed to suck off the flavors, then spit out the rocks – hence the dish’s name suodiu, meaning “suck and dispose.”Videos of internet users sampling suodiu have sprung up all over Chinese social media platforms over the past week. They also show how street vendors cook up the unusual dish. To “find happiness in the bitterness,” the report said, they would find stones to cook with other condiments to make a dish.

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Persons: Hong Kong CNN —, Suodiu Organizations: Hong Kong CNN Locations: Hong Kong, Hubei