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I've gotten A LOT of questions since I moved from Ecuador to China, and probably the most recurrent one is 'HOW IS THE FOOD?' 'DO THEY EAT BABIES?' 'WHAT ABOUT DOGS?' 'IS IT ALIVE WHILE YOU EAT IT?'.
I've memorized a very polite speech to tell people to stop being ignorant. Nevertheless, I admit that there are very creepy places here where you can get some crazy-ass 'food'.
To make it short: Dogs: No, Cats: No (at least not that I've heard in half year), Bugs: Yes (some big ones too), Snake: Yes (yum), Babies: Are you fucking nuts? Of course not.
So, what about the normal food? Well, it deserves a headline.
normal food
If you have tried 'Chinese Food' in a local restaurant in your fancy New York, L.A., Boston, London, Paris, Berlin or in [put your fancy city here: X] and you loved/hated it, believe me, it is nothing compared to the REAL one. The real one is 50x better (or worse, it depends).
Food can be a damn nice experience here, if you go to the appropriate places. You can taste very delicious dishes that you would never guess how are made, get completely full, and pay about 4 US Dollars for the whole damn thing. Or... you could spend $50 US on a single dish that tastes the same, or not as good, if you want.
One of the coolest things since I moved here is the amazing variety you can discover each day on the lunch. I'm just too amazed by it that I wanted to share my excitement.
On a side note,
daniel levanon
will become a man soon, go and
him. NAO.And let me know which one of you is close to this damn hot humid oven. I wanna hang out on cold lands, probably northeast europe. Or Russia. But I've heard in Russia, the ice fucks you.
Hugs,
Me.
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I wholeheartedly agree with what you said, although I did come across dishes with dogs.
During the first month I'd eat dinner at a different restaurant every evening.
The food was cheap and oh so tasty.
My mouth still starts to water when I think of the delicious Gongbao Jiding in a small Sichuan restaurant just north of my former university.
But the best food I ate there were Jiaozi, Baozi and Xiaolongbaos in a small food den close to my apartment.
I've since learned to make a fair approximation at home.
Well, I know that Beijing has some strange places where you can get dogs as food, that's certainly the last thing I would eat in my life.
Jaozi and Xiaolongbaos are the best thing on earth. I don't know how you manage to survive without those on your daily ingest.
Hugs from here,
M.
Once, only once in my life I've tasted Bernese Cattle Dog, but I didn't know that beforehand (it was during my first trip to China). I hated the taste. Only afterwards I came to know that it was dog.
Oh and living without Jiaozis and Xiaolongbaos is hard. Especially when I'm studying for some Chinese exam.
Shanghai was nice, too. I've spent four days there.
How do you understand the people there? Thankfully I got used to their dialect fairly quickly, but some words are just too different from Putonghua, IMO.
Well, the mandarin in Shanghai has a lot of local slangs and added words, while some other millions speaks some sort of Shanghainese. I don't know about that one, it sounds 30% like mandarin, 40% like japanese and 30% like backwards evil language. Hahaha.
The weirdest thing for me was travelling in Hong Kong, though.
Chinese people? — Check.
Traditional Chinese characters? — Check.
I didn't understand a word they said? — Check!
sounds like you're enjoying it there
Yeah I moved here after getting married. I guess you didn't read that one either.
so,