Food

So last night, I went out with Shuai and Ning to eat some barbecue and a type of hot pot soup. We started off with a sizzling plate of barbecue that had everything from onions, carrots, squid, beef, peppers, and many other items. We also had a plate of delicious tofu on the side. Then comes the hot pot, and the only thing in the hot pot was chicken. I pick out my first piece of meat and notice that it still has the skin on it. I find out that all the pieces do and this is normal. It's pretty good so I keep eating until I grab one piece and bring it towards my mouth when I notice that I'm staring straight into the comb/mohawk of the chicken head. Shuai tells me that although he doesn't eat the head many people do. I go back to eating more normal pieces of chicken until I again grab a piece of out the pot, which is the neck. Quite fun.

I've eaten plenty of interesting things since I've been here. Pig penis, bamboo snail (still have no idea what this is), seafood galore, etc.

The most interesting place I visited for food, though, had to be the animal market in Guangzhou. As some people may know, yes cat and dog are eaten in China and Guangzhou is actually known for eating many strange things. But I mean, what I saw was pretty ridiculous. Bats and parrots strung up for eating. Bats and parrots...