Food in China - 中国菜很好吃!

Some twisted, salted potatoes in Guangzhou.

Tons of food on a stick at the next stall.

Chicken feet turns out to be actually pretty good. It's just like eating the skin off chicken. However, I never ventured into the packaged chicken feet territory. I wanted to ship Davis, my little brother, one of these so badly because he used to collect pheasant feet after we would go hunting when he was a kid, but the post office wouldn't let me ship it!

I met Stefan and Jannie in Australia when I stayed with them in Sydney. I was lucky enough to come to China when they were visiting for the Chinese New Year.  I had traditional Guangdong food with Stefan's family. My mandarin was still really rough at that point, so all I could really say was 好吃 - tasty. So my conversation with Stefan's mom and grandma consisted of me just repeating 好吃， 好吃！

The silk worm was actually really good.

However, the earthworm quiche was not so good...

我阿姨！My aunty!

The next day we had a hot pot with sheep's brain, Stefan's sister's favorite. It wasn't very tasty....

MEGACOOKIE - I wouldn't eat it though. Probably made of saw dust.

These parakeets were not food, though sometimes it is hard to tell the distinction between food and non-food in China. This was at an animal market in Guangzhou.

These worms at the same market are food.

Sichuan beef in chili oil.

I loved this picture because it shows how crafty McDonalds is. "Let's put the ice cream outpost in front of BabyLand."

This is food. I loved visiting the Walmart in Wuhan. It has some similarities to the WalMart I know, but the basket of live frogs was not one of them.

Nor was the eel.

Walmart has loads of other seafood too!

This is the similarity to the walmat I know. Aisle and aisles of super cheap stuff. Unlike the walmart in the US, the one in Wuhan has almost all domestic products ; )

Some snacks on the train. I wasn't adventurous enough to buy this...

Scorpions! They looked super crazy because they would spear them on the stick while alive so you could watch them squirm.

However, it just tasted like crunchy oil. Not worth the $4... I was disappointed.

I didn't venture to try this, but they look super weird...

Some super cute cakes : )  This looks much less frightening to eat.

I heard duck tongue was a delicacy and I forgot to eat it the first time I had duck. I ordered a duck head 鸭头, but I think I should have went to a nicer restaurant because there really wasn't much of anything on this charred duck head. They gave me a heart plate, though, so at least it was served with love.

My host in Beijing taught me how to make Gansu noodles!  I was not very good at it, but it was super fun. He was a really good cook : )

I had pickled garlic that me made, which was surprisingly good.

This is a random dessert plate.

And a man with the dessert plate as a hat : )

My favorite sign in Hong Kong.