Chinese food, and I mean the REAL Chinese food can be a downright scary experience, I’m not talking about Honey King Prawns, Lemon Chicken or Beef N Black Bean served laden with MSG, suffering from slow death in a bain-marie up at the local RSL smörgÃ¥sbord (scary enough in a different way), but the braised bullfrog, sautéed tortoise in shell, beef noodle soup with the optional bulls penis, the steamed ball meat, the fried cock bones, ducks feet, ducks tongue, ducks heads and the polarizing but readily available dog.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Chinese food and relish eating the “real deal”, so long as it adheres to my code, nothing endangered or cruelly produced will pass my lips. This means that something like Sharks Fin is most definately off my menu. But it does mean that scorpion, frog, tortoise, street side BBQ, shÄ“ng jiÄn and xiÇŽo lóng bÄo are well and truly in!
I spend most of my weekends traipsing all over Shanghai eating all and sundry from high end dim sum, to cheap street fair. However many flavors and textures that are a delight on the Chinese palate are somewhat lost on this 鬼å.
Take for example, the Chinese obsession of juicing everything. Sure, some vegetable juice is nice; carrot, celery, apple and ginger is downright delicious, but CORN is just too damn far. Juiced, so it is nice and pulpy, and served warm, tastes more like a bodily fluid than a healthy drink.
Corn juice, just say no!
LOL. Actually, when I visited China, I loved corn juice! It was pretty good to me. Just Sayin.