soul_warrior
Termite!
wonderful read!
looks like everything immigration related is under control.
which is very good!
looks like everything immigration related is under control.
which is very good!
My second trip to China
- Thread starter Bamspeedy
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Hygro
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Bamspeedy, thanks for sharing this story. You were one of the 5 or so people who inspired me to actually register on this site so its great to read a well written narrative written on an interesting development of your life.
plarq
Crazy forever
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
devilhunterred
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They deep fried the head as well because to my knowledge a dish served with a headless chicken is considered back-luck and unusual in China, so even for a deep fried chicken dish they fried the head as well, but it's not supposed to be eaten. It's more for decoration to make the chicken dish seem "completed".
devilhunterred
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Bamspeedy it sounded like you had quite a good time in China. Hope the immigration is working out for you and best of luck to you and your new family.
My only tip for you living in China is that be adventurous when it comes to food tasting. Try everything at least once regardless of its appearence or what it actually is.
I refused to eat chicken's feet for the first two years when I was in Hong Kong, when I finally tried it I realized I have been missing out on such a delicacy. Most phobia of Chinese food from westerners are entirely psychological. Is the chicken's feet unhygienic in anyway? No. Eating chicken's feet is no different than the German's common practice of eating pig's feet. If it's washed and cooked well there's no problem with it at all.
I also tried snakes (Usually they make deep fried dish out of the skin, which is very crisp but less fatty than fried chicken skin. And they make soups out of the flesh itself, which is considered and scientfically proven to be very nutritious), turtles (they use the shells to make soups, again a very nutritious delicacy in China) goose (as common as chickens and ducks in China and Hong Kong, but it's more expensive as goose offers more meat and is more tender), deep fried insects (great beer snacks) and several others (No dogs and cats though, I believe eating them have been banned in China for some years now. But I heard eating dogs is still somewhat common in rural Korea).
If you can get rid of the psychological obstacle China can be quite a food lover's (even vegetarian) heaven.
My only tip for you living in China is that be adventurous when it comes to food tasting. Try everything at least once regardless of its appearence or what it actually is.
I refused to eat chicken's feet for the first two years when I was in Hong Kong, when I finally tried it I realized I have been missing out on such a delicacy. Most phobia of Chinese food from westerners are entirely psychological. Is the chicken's feet unhygienic in anyway? No. Eating chicken's feet is no different than the German's common practice of eating pig's feet. If it's washed and cooked well there's no problem with it at all.
I also tried snakes (Usually they make deep fried dish out of the skin, which is very crisp but less fatty than fried chicken skin. And they make soups out of the flesh itself, which is considered and scientfically proven to be very nutritious), turtles (they use the shells to make soups, again a very nutritious delicacy in China) goose (as common as chickens and ducks in China and Hong Kong, but it's more expensive as goose offers more meat and is more tender), deep fried insects (great beer snacks) and several others (No dogs and cats though, I believe eating them have been banned in China for some years now. But I heard eating dogs is still somewhat common in rural Korea).
If you can get rid of the psychological obstacle China can be quite a food lover's (even vegetarian) heaven.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Great post. Thanks for sharing. Got a photo of the three of you? Or better yet, the whole family?
plarq
Crazy forever
Dig up the old thread of Bamspeedy (IIRC last Nov)
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
All those pictures have expired and can no longer be seen (or at least they don't appear when I just checked it).
Oddly, one picture has a Homeland Security message in it's place. Guess I wasn't supposed to take a picture of that entrance to a military base next to the hotel.
plarq
Crazy forever
All those pictures have expired and can no longer be seen (or at least they don't appear when I just checked it).
Oddly, one picture has a Homeland Security message in it's place. Guess I wasn't supposed to take a picture of that entrance to a military base next to the hotel.
As long as you keep those files on your hard disk, nothing can be done by those Chinese net-cops.
