Two nights ago a few of us ended our day at the Night Market downtown. Close to Tiananmen Square, in sort of a Times Square type area, the Night Market is open for a few hours every night. Essentially it's a very long row of booths selling a WIDE variety of foods. According to the sign, it was arranged to give people a chance to eat some of the more unusual Chinese cuisine. It's a regulated thing and so I think there may be some guidelines or codes they have to follow. Anyway, let's just say that I upped the ante a little bit from the last food pictures. Without further adu, the things I ate:
Chicken Heart - the best one
Snake - the worst one
Sea Snake - very chewy
Silk Worm
Cicada - surprisingly tasty
Seahorse
Scorpion
4 comments:
Glad you are enjoying all the sights and adventures in Chinatown. I have to say though that I think you were in the Beijing Zoo and not a food market the other night !!!
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There is no F'in way you ate all that stuff. Some of it looks unreal. At least if you were competing in a Chinese Fear Factor for money I might believe you. Cicada...scorpion...
You are a wild man!
MM
Hi Eric, I work with your father and he passed on a link to your blog. I was in China three years ago and your musings bring back memories. I remember laughing a lot, really enjoyed the food and the people. We used to make note of OSHA violations. It was also interesting to observe all of the non-productive jobs (they are trying to employ 1.3 Billion people). I recommend a place called Lotus Lane for nightlife. Catch a rikshaw ride around the lake. Have a GREAT time!
I caught an episode of some sort of TV special series on Beijing and they showed this Night Market you went to. They showed the reporter lady eating some of the things you had pictures of. Any pictures/footage to validate you actually consumed these things...or even better your reactions to eating them?
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