WE ATE WHAT!?!

我们吃什么?!

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I am the garbage can. What people didn’t eat, they gave to me, and it disappeared. Therefore, I feel fully qualified to talk about the food in China…

Crazy foods that were eaten:

· Chicken Skin : Considered by the garbage can one of the finest delicacies of the trip. The melting feature, combined with the flavor that blesses your mouth… this taste was second to none.

· Duck’s Blood : Yes one of the weirdest things consumed, it was also one of the nastiest things consumed. It came in the form of a red square, very similar to tofu in both appearance and texture.

· Mushroom Soup : innocent looking water never ceased to amaze me. This dish seemed to end up in the corner of the garbage can quite frequently. Soup flavored with mushroom considered by Chinese untranslatable, mushrooms of every variety can be found in almost every meal. Their unique and savory taste is to be enjoyed while it can.

· Spicy Duck Snack Packs : be prepared for an explosion that blows Louisiana hot sauce out of the park!! Whereas Americans purchase Skittles and Kit Kat’s as snack food, Chinese purchase spice duck snack packs. This consists of dynamite-filled duck chunks.

· Wood ear (native fungus) : your body will not appreciate you putting this in its system. This native fungus and considered perfect complement to every dish, to an American, it seems like simply including rubber to what could have been delicious. Furthermore, your body will not digest it. What you see go in your mouth is what you will see in the toilet the next day.

· Pig ear : one of the more interesting foods eaten on the trip. The course texture difficulty to chew leaves the consumer skeptical of its edibility. But surely enough, it will leave the consumer interestingly satisfied, but not urging to have more.

· Bamboo : Now I understand why pandas live this gift from heaven so much! Bamboo, when prepared properly, is tough but delicious. It is impossible to eat only one, for the innate desire for more is uncontrollable.

· Seaweed : the determinant of satisfaction derived from seaweed is the dish it is cooked with. Servable as an additive or could stand alone, this stringy vegetable

· Yams with blueberry sauce : as shown in the picture above, this dish is served only at upper end restaurants. The dish will remind you of homemade mashed potatoes, but only leave you dissatisfied because it simply cannot compare to mother’s cooking.

· ‘Tinglers’ : Everybody is warned about this spice. Cooked with the dish, it adds supplements the meal wonderfully. However, eaten alone, an inimitable sensation is perturbed. The mouth surrenders to the acids inside the plant, and becomes numb. For the next hour, food tastes less vibrant. For the next hour, speech becomes less comprehensible. But don’t let this description scare the skeptical consumer. This is an experience that deserves to go on one’s bucket list of China.