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SO if you thought that dinner I described was weird, then wait till you read this. First thing I try is the root of a water lily, not my cup of tea but it wasn't horrible. Then came the duck tongue. I thought it was a scorpion without a shell or something like that, but no, it was a duck tongue; actually a plate stacked high with them. Its this weird grey miniature of a human tongue except that it has two giant antenea like things that stick out like the part that connects your lower jaw to your upper jaw. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't eat more than one bite of it, i just couldn't get past the fact that it was a duck tongue. Then i had shrimp on a stick. Now the way they prepare seafood in China slightly differs than the fish fillet or the shrimp we know. In America it's all nicely prepared and de-boned and not looking at you as you eat it. In China however, they catch it, sell it at a market, while it's alive sometimes, and just cook it as is. So at dinner you have to feel guilty while your picking the bones out of your mouth while the fish looks at you. Its the same with shrimp, you have to rip the head, legs and shell off before you eat it. Then I tried duck palms, thats right, they actually eat those. Then some beef and pork that was what I was used to, yumm, and then with a baked duck soup. The way they roast a bird is also different here, they leave the head and neck on, so once again you feel guilty as you eat the animal while it watches you. To the Rainey family though, the soup tasted a lot like our slop, except there wasn't as much in there. All in all, the lunch was interesting, but it would have been better with grasshoppers, haha. If you think this is weird, one of the Americans in my group ate duck tongue a while ago, as well as rabbit head. They take a rabbit, remove the fur, and they cooked nothing but the heads. He says they were pretty spicy. In China, everyone thinks that everyone eats cats and dogs. We figured that was too main-stream because we know of a place where they take it up a notch. We haven't been there yet, but before we go we are all going to eat wolf and tiger meat!
I've got to go do my homework, enjoy the blog!
SO if you thought that dinner I described was weird, then wait till you read this. First thing I try is the root of a water lily, not my cup of tea but it wasn't horrible. Then came the duck tongue. I thought it was a scorpion without a shell or something like that, but no, it was a duck tongue; actually a plate stacked high with them. Its this weird grey miniature of a human tongue except that it has two giant antenea like things that stick out like the part that connects your lower jaw to your upper jaw. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't eat more than one bite of it, i just couldn't get past the fact that it was a duck tongue. Then i had shrimp on a stick. Now the way they prepare seafood in China slightly differs than the fish fillet or the shrimp we know. In America it's all nicely prepared and de-boned and not looking at you as you eat it. In China however, they catch it, sell it at a market, while it's alive sometimes, and just cook it as is. So at dinner you have to feel guilty while your picking the bones out of your mouth while the fish looks at you. Its the same with shrimp, you have to rip the head, legs and shell off before you eat it. Then I tried duck palms, thats right, they actually eat those. Then some beef and pork that was what I was used to, yumm, and then with a baked duck soup. The way they roast a bird is also different here, they leave the head and neck on, so once again you feel guilty as you eat the animal while it watches you. To the Rainey family though, the soup tasted a lot like our slop, except there wasn't as much in there. All in all, the lunch was interesting, but it would have been better with grasshoppers, haha. If you think this is weird, one of the Americans in my group ate duck tongue a while ago, as well as rabbit head. They take a rabbit, remove the fur, and they cooked nothing but the heads. He says they were pretty spicy. In China, everyone thinks that everyone eats cats and dogs. We figured that was too main-stream because we know of a place where they take it up a notch. We haven't been there yet, but before we go we are all going to eat wolf and tiger meat!
I've got to go do my homework, enjoy the blog!
