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Gui Lin Gao 2007-12-21 02:49:00 Have you ever eaten a turtle shell? We were at dim sum one Sunday morning and I saw the table next to us receive an order of black jello. What was this black jello I asked my knowledgeable companions. "It's turtle shell," they said, "you'll like it." I did, and I do, often. I love the stuff. It's really best at good dim sum restaurants, where they serve it fresh, in fine dishware
Duck Heads 2008-02-12 07:46:00 When my friend Mark David Elliot, who writes a blog called LikeALocal.cn about Shanghai food, especially cheap eats and street food, called to suggest we do lunch on Shouning Road, my initial reaction was "uh, don't you know how much I hate Shanghai cuisine? Haven't I made myself clear?" [here. and here.]. But I'm also eager to be proven wrong, at least once, about Shanghai food. Mark has a Read more:Heads
DJs Do Dog Meat 2008-01-13 09:10:00 I recently did a proper restaurant review of Lao Tan, which is a Guizhou minority food restaurant near Logo bar in Shanghai. While we don't come here specifically for the strange foods they have on the menu, there are a few worth a weird meat mention.
Allow me to quote myself, "Some readers might pass on the Bamboo Worms (48rmb) or the Fried King Bees (60rmb), or even the delicious Grilled
New Year's Resolution 2008-01-02 02:30:00 Years ago during a drunken new year everyone was chatting up their resolutions, the usual stuff, getting more exercise, eating healthy, blah blah blah. I couldn't handle it. I announced that I was going to pick up a new vice instead of a virtue.
So I tried smoking cigarettes. I never had before, so it felt exciting and enjoyably reckless, but it only lasted 2 weeks. I found it a to be a chore, Read more:Resolution
, New Year
Devil's Picnic 2008-03-16 23:47:00 Just finished reading the book "The Devil
's Picnic
" by Taras Grescoe. The author travels the world in search of illicit and illegal food and drink. He enters Singapore with a bag full of outlawed chewing gum, he hunts down real moonshine absinthe in Switzerland, and chews coca leaves in Bolivia. The book has a solid examination of the history of prohibition, and how some current laws work in
Brains in Bombay 2008-03-25 03:37:00 After a month of easy village living in the South of India, we took a break from the yoga routine and went up for a wild weekend in Bombay
(Mumbai). There we ran into our friends in the Smirnoff Ten, and checked out a new music club called Blue Frog. In the club's brochure, the chef claims to be knowledgeable about "obscure meats" but we didn't see any on the menu.
We were told that lamb Read more:Brains
Ant Extract at Oxygen Bar 2008-04-13 02:34:00 Mountain Ant Essence @ Oxygen
Bar, San Francisco.
In the late 1990's we lived in the Mission District in San Francisco. This mostly Latino neighborhood (some claim it's the true birthplace of the burrito, as we know it) saw a period of gentrification and hipster-ism coinciding with the dot-com gold rush of the time. We had mixed feelings about this, but the diversity of people it drew, and the
Ant Essence at Shanghai Sex Shop 2008-04-26 08:02:00 We recently passed a shop in Shanghai
, China that had a poster advertising ant essence. We went in to grab some and found the shop was actually an adult sex toy shop. There are lots of these all over Shanghai. They have fake viagra, exotic condoms, dildos, rubber boobies, blow-up dolls, and other plastic genitalia. Yeah, there's some really weird stuff in there. There's also tons of pills Read more:Essence
Stupid Food Products 2008-05-10 00:52:00 We were shopping at Shanghai's expat food mecca, City Shop, and in the baking aisle found a food product we find so incredibly stupid, we had to share it with you. This item comes from Australia. It's "White Wings Shaker Pancakes ORIGINAL" in a bottle:
Here's the deal. It's sold in a see-thru plastic bottle, and it's only half-full of the dry mix. You are supposed to fill the rest of the Read more:Stupid
, Products
Toilet Food 2008-06-05 02:50:00 Taipei, Taiwan (and, unfortunately, other places too).
Two girls, one toilet
This could go under "Stupid Food Products" but it deserves its own post...
There is a restaurant -- a chain of them, heaven help us -- that serves food in toilets. It's called Modern Toilet
and it's poopular with teenage girls. I was wandering about Ximending shopping area in Taipei, near the "America
White Ant Eggs 2008-09-22 03:13:00 ... some alley off Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand
The Sukhumvit area of Bangkok is a paradise for the amateur adventure eater. From weird, unidentifiable bugs served by multi-gendered street vendors, to odd goat parts in strictly halal restaurants, and even a condom restaurant. We'd already eaten all the insects we could find, and after a few shots of various exotic liquors, we found a soup Read more:White
China Cat Lovers Rescue Kittens Meant for Dinner 2008-09-03 21:18:00 Oh here's a fun story... over the weekend in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province (a few hours south of Shanghai), a bunch of cat lovers rescued 800 kittens that were going to be sent down to Guangdong (where they eat all that weird stuff). Supposedly these cats were meant to be eaten too.
Shanghai Animal Protection Association President Zhang Yi appealed to society to cultivate better dining habits. [ Read more:China
, Lovers
, Rescue
, Dinner
China Bans Dog Meat During Olympics 2008-09-01 04:23:00 [Photo from TrekEarth]
During the 1988 Olympics
in Seoul, Korea, the government banned some restaurants from serving dog meat and encouraged Koreans to not eat dog when around foreign visitors. There was a lot of hoopla surrounding this, with anti-dog meat organizations rallying and "Korean culture" supporters defending their right to eat dog meat. It's important to note that there we Read more:China
Deer Penis Wine 2008-08-08 09:51:00 Taipei, Taiwan
After eating chicken testicles, we continued down the main lane on Snake Alley, until we came to a shop specializing in Deer Penis
Wine. They have these big glass jars filled with liquor and in the middle is a preserved penis of a deer. Porn star size.
Feeling inadequate, we sat down and ordered a shot. Like most Chinese wines, this stuff was just brutal strong and something
Bunny Rabbit Heads 2008-07-16 23:22:00 Hangzhou, China.
Remember that scene in 24 Hour Party People, when Shaun Ryder's character says "I don't want no bunny rabbit food" when he looks at the veggie food spread on Tony Wilson's fancy new table? Except he's got an accent and it sounds like he says "bully rabbi" instead. I wonder what the Happy Monday singer would say if we offered him a bunny rabbit head. Would h Read more:Heads
, Bunny
, Rabbit
Rooster Testicles 2008-06-26 04:41:00 Confession: Sometimes even I have trouble stomaching this stuff... well... of course, I was hungover again.
Taipei, Taiwan
We were looking for the infamous Snake Alley night market in Taibei, when I spotted a tray of gross looking balls. We weren't sure what they were at first, but the thin veins and tight plump shape hinted that they weren't just a stomach or kidney. We asked... Read more:Rooster
, Testicles
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