Mighty Intellect
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Location: Changchun, China
Location: Changchun, China
July 11th, 2006, 06:54 AM
Oh have I got my stories:
As for seafoods, I'll stick to anything vegetal, such as kelp, seaweed, algae, etc. I especially like kelp! Heck, I eat it most every day, or at lest every week. A whole week without kelp is a rarity.
Now as for disgusting foods, I've had smelly tofu. It smells like putrid sockes from across the street. And once you've crossed the street, it smells the same but more concentrated. A better name would be putrid tofu. People would say that it smells bad but tastes good. So fine, I tried it and gagged! Tastes the same, except this time the fumes reach the nostrils from within the mouth goig up the throat rather than from the outside. Now I've got a tough stomach, but had to spit that one out!
then we have the deep fried cockroaches (I think, or at least some related big bug)deep fried silkworm. Tastes like deep fried saw dust, or so I'm guessing. Relatively tasteless, but not something I'd want to try again. I only ate it to appease a host who was already offendid at my teetotalling ways. He was happy since I ws the only foreigner who actually shoved that "delicacy" in his mouth, chewed and swallowed.
Then we have what we might call live shrimp marinating in spicey sauce. Hey, might as well call a spade a spade. When the dish is first delivered to table, the things are squiggling away quite vividly. But as we're enjoying conversation over time, we find that as 10, 20, 30 minutes pass by, and most aren't moving anymore. Easy to eat, alive or dead. You grab it, tear it apart, and eat like any normal shrimp. I passed on that one! by the way, we had a dish of backed dog on the table that day too. I passed on that too. Sorry, but pets aren't to be eaten. This was all in Chinese restaurants.
On another occasion in a Korean restaurant (Koreans are a major ethnic minority in town), I found that my mushrrom soup (or so I thought) had a beefy flavour, only to find it was... dawg. I immediately stopped to eat, paid, and walked out. I'm very hesitant and careful when eating at Korean restaurants now.
Aywa, welcome to China, where food varieties abound.
Oh have I got my stories:
As for seafoods, I'll stick to anything vegetal, such as kelp, seaweed, algae, etc. I especially like kelp! Heck, I eat it most every day, or at lest every week. A whole week without kelp is a rarity.
Now as for disgusting foods, I've had smelly tofu. It smells like putrid sockes from across the street. And once you've crossed the street, it smells the same but more concentrated. A better name would be putrid tofu. People would say that it smells bad but tastes good. So fine, I tried it and gagged! Tastes the same, except this time the fumes reach the nostrils from within the mouth goig up the throat rather than from the outside. Now I've got a tough stomach, but had to spit that one out!
then we have the deep fried cockroaches (I think, or at least some related big bug)deep fried silkworm. Tastes like deep fried saw dust, or so I'm guessing. Relatively tasteless, but not something I'd want to try again. I only ate it to appease a host who was already offendid at my teetotalling ways. He was happy since I ws the only foreigner who actually shoved that "delicacy" in his mouth, chewed and swallowed.
Then we have what we might call live shrimp marinating in spicey sauce. Hey, might as well call a spade a spade. When the dish is first delivered to table, the things are squiggling away quite vividly. But as we're enjoying conversation over time, we find that as 10, 20, 30 minutes pass by, and most aren't moving anymore. Easy to eat, alive or dead. You grab it, tear it apart, and eat like any normal shrimp. I passed on that one! by the way, we had a dish of backed dog on the table that day too. I passed on that too. Sorry, but pets aren't to be eaten. This was all in Chinese restaurants.
On another occasion in a Korean restaurant (Koreans are a major ethnic minority in town), I found that my mushrrom soup (or so I thought) had a beefy flavour, only to find it was... dawg. I immediately stopped to eat, paid, and walked out. I'm very hesitant and careful when eating at Korean restaurants now.
Aywa, welcome to China, where food varieties abound.
