Food

[Martin]

Are you left handed?

It sure looks good. How do you make the roast?

[Chronopolitano]

I had bbqd butterflies and scorpians in Thailand - they eat them like crisps

No~~oooooooo!!!!! Not butterflies! No~o! Say it ain't so! Gaaa!!!!
They should be toasted! Not BBQd!

Scorpions were insipid.

[Chronopolitano]

In terms of the ingredients, nothing more unusual than what I had already eaten in France, it was the way every single thing was different. By the end of my visit I was quite proud of my ability to pop a piece of frog in my mouth, strip it from the bone with my tongue and then remove the small piece of bone from my month with my chop sticks and pop it on my plate, while chatting away

I love frog in Black Bean Sauce! But haven;t had it in a long time.

I won't ever eat chicken feet again though.

[Martin]

So your most adventurous meal so far in China consisted of...?

Not directed at me, but anyway
We once had hotpot, where one of the ingredients was pigs brain. But what I disliked most where the fish gills

[Martin]

I love frog in Black Bean Sauce! But haven;t had it in a long time.

I won't ever eat chicken feet again though.

Ouch yes. The first time in china, guess it was 2000, Directly after a long flight I took a train from Beijing to Shijiazhuang. During that ride, several times a cart passed by carrying amongst others fried chicken feet... I did not dare to try, and still haven't...

[Chronopolitano]

Not directed at me, but anyway
We once had hotpot, where one of the ingredients was pigs brain. But what I disliked most where the fish gills

UGH!! No brains for me, anywhere, no matter who cooks em, no matter how venerable the tradition.
It was awful to eat it (calf brains) in Italy and just as bad in China, for me.

Gills? Thats just sloppy cooking.

[Der Amf]

I love frog in Black Bean Sauce! But haven;t had it in a long time.

I won't ever eat chicken feet again though.

Frog is beyond delicious, makes chicken seem very dull in comparison.

The city I was in was huge and industrial, with terrible visibility. Westerners had little reason to go there and those that did were holed up in hermetically sealed cocoons of Western-style luxury, so on the street I was just as exotic to the people as their city was to me:











The last picture is of a poster outside a restaurant telling you what the two main dishes they offer are

[Seriously]

Do you have scrambled eggs with everything

If it's not scrambled eggs wtf is it ?

[Der Amf]

Not directed at me, but anyway
We once had hotpot, where one of the ingredients was pigs brain. But what I disliked most where the fish gills

Going into one hot pot were some very indistinct bits of animal that I was careful to edge past. The hot pots were so spicy that it made perfect sense that the condiment in a pot served alongside was mashed raw garlic

[Chronopolitano]

Going into one hot pot were some very indistinct bits of animal that I was careful to edge past. The hot pots were so spicy that it made perfect sense that the condiment in a pot served alongside was mashed raw garlic

One can never eat enough raw garlic. Especially in the winter.

I think it's for garlic's medicinal properties rather than out of any need to make it even more spicy.
Come to think of it, I might go have some tonight.... with lots of cumin and Sichuan pepper corns! Yum.