As I mentioned earlier it's an interesting experience to eat chinese food because when you aren't too shy you will come across very different dishes. So on a camp trip I got to know a not very shy young american friend. On the last evening of this camp trip we as group went to a restaurant and she was open to try the famous 1000year old egg with and even the eye of a fish which as far as I can remember is considered a honor to eat here. I kinda had to eat it too. The egg was good, I actually tasted more of the meat then the egg but the fish eyes taste was odd. It was a little white ball not easy to chew and I think perhaps it is the bigger fish eyes which are more tasteful. But bravehearted it's the experience to take in which counts I guess..
The other day there was a free gift from the hotel we were staying at and it was something wrapped like sweets. I opened it and it seemed to be something similar to meat so why not and I tried it. As far as my chinese goes I knew that "gou" stands for dog and since there stood "gou niu" despite of what seemed to be a beef's head on the wrapper my stomach said NO and I stopped trying it. Later on I got to know that gou also stands for something like "good" or so. So I gues it was not dog meat. But it really seemed so.
So I will try to list foods I have eaten which are considered maybe not very familar on an other part of this world I know people live on and as far as I know also list what this magic food can do:
- Swine feet (good for your face..)
- 1000year old egg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg)
- Fish eyes (for your eyesight I guess but then there is the question why many chinese people wear glasses)
- Donkey meat
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Odd food somebody would like to list or suggest to try?
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