Chinese eats everything under the sun?

the soup wasn't bad................. but i would avoid eating a bull penis cos ummmmm it just wouldn't look right...... and those things are freakin huge

 

Everything is edible as long as u know how to make it tasty haha! long time ago I saw an interview of a restaurant in HK that cooks insects as theur specialty... spiders, scorpions, grasshoppers, etc... and they say insects r healthier than seafood lol! lotsa vitamins haha!

 

i don't think chinese eat everything whats living....bcause not every spcies is in China ....but almost everything in China has been 'mapped' and integrated in 'kooking books' ... how would they otherwise feed al those 1.3 billion chinese.

some for westerners 'strange' dishes actually tastes pretty good.....

 

like what can u suggest that is strange and is good

 

Haha...I'm Chinese, and I love my food. But I draw the line at exotic food like insects, wildlife (monkeys, tigers, and the rest). The weirdest thing I've tried was octopus tentacles, cut up while it was still alive...the tentacles practically wriggle and squirm in your mouth, and even cling around your tongue...and it was slimy...eurgh! Haha...don't ask me why I tried it. Just for the fun of it I guess...

 

Nastee, they do a lot of that in Shenzhen. When I went there they had all of these caged animals like monkeys, exotic birds, possums, foxes, wild cats. I was like wtf. How can they eat that shit.

 

food is food, if its prepared a certain way, sometimes you can't tell the difference between 1 from the other, as long as they don't show you the animals beforehand =]

 

Haha...well, one man's meat is another man's poison. People actually find exotic food a delicacy

 

i just agree that chinese's food are in such a great variety...not like the malays and indians in our country(malaysia) where the hawkers only sell the same type of dishes...

 

I beg to differ. The Malays and Indians actually have a vast array of dishes. Just that the hawkers don't offer them. There's a B&B somewhere in PD where they actually offer you authentic kampung style Malay cuisine, and you get to experience a really different culture altogether. It was a wonderful experience

 

I saw this on TVB....a travel blabla about japan!! Fresh octopus in a restaurant(they had a somekind of aquaria inside the restaurant) I will give it a try when im in japan-lol

 

I am amazed by the number of recipes chinese made from the living things in this world.

 

ancient chinese living.... it was all about eating and surviving!! FOOD...how do u think there are 1.3 billion over now -whistle

 

Isn't there a saying in chinese "If it's back is toward the sky, its edible" or something like that?

 

，ｕ　ｄｉｄ　ｋｎｏｗ　ｔｈａｔ　，ｅａｔｉｎｇ　ｂｕｌｌｓ　ｐｅｎｉｓ　，　ｗｉｌｌ　Ｙｅｅ　ｙｉｎｇ　ｂｏ　ｙｉｎｇ　ｌｏｌ，　ｓｏ　ｉｔ＇ｌｌｖｅ　ｗｏｒｔｈ　ｉｔ　ｈｅｈｅ

 

i saw a Chinese takeaway called "tasty horse balls"....

 

haha thats a gd one. the only absurd things i see is on food brands only in chinese supermarkets.