Saturday, December 15, 2007

What's on the menu?


Pig Tongue


Snake

There is no such thing as Chinese food. With a country as vast as China and with over a billion people, there are so many food varieties as you can imagine. There is however one truth: everything can be eaten. Over the last week, I’ve added to my check list of new-foods-eaten: snake, fried scorpions and pig tongue. Snake was not too bad, it tasted like eel. Fried scorpions were like eating unpeeled shrimp. The pig tongue? My Chinese host said it would help me speak better Chinese. I had to swallow it with a good dose of green tea. You get the picture.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hallo Paul. We hebben je blogadres doorgekregen van je toffe pa! Regelmatig kijken we naar je belevenissen en leren zo iets van het normale leven in Beijing.
Soms wel smakelijke beelden (!?) als je het mij vraagt.
Groetjes en prettige kerstdagen
Hugo