What is it with Asians and food? It seems the more bizarre it is the more they like it.
The original ‘foodies’..................
It seems the more bizarre it is the more they like it.
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That’s definitely true... The saying in Cantonese is that they “eat anything on 4 legs except the table.” Years ago, I travelled extensively throughout China and I can tell ya, I saw stuff eaten in Guangdong Province that defined imagination. When I did a search just now on ‘most disgusting foods in China’, I found this list... https://thehelpfulpanda.com/foods-from-china-that-will-gross-you-out/ Let me just say that I’ve tried most of these and as disgusting as they may be, none would make my list of ‘the most disgusting foods in China’. Ever try bee pupa, sea horse, fish eyes, ants, silkworm grubs, ‘drunken’ crab, lamb chuan (that is likely rat meat), sheep penis and on and on. One would think that everyone has limits and while mine will stretch way further than most, I know where mine are.
To be fair, a lot of this stems back to Mao and the cultural revolution when he was attempting to kill most of the country by starvation. When faced with the alternative of starvation, people do get ‘creative’...