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Q: Has China expanded your food horizons?
Before I came to China, I didn't want to eat mushrooms. Now I like them. Considering some of the foods I've seen, I realized I was just being silly. There are still things I won't eat, but I eat more kinds of food than I used to. Do you enjoy foods you thought you'd never eat? Any funny stories?
Same thing happened to me, but maybe it was that I was raised having to eat whatever type of food and amount my mother placed on my plate. Many things that are eaten here, I either did not know or knew but had not tasted. So, unless there are other than those I have a mental block about eating them, I am willing to give it a try. And to my surprise, many taste great.
I had not eaten mushrooms prior to coming here, now I do enjoy them too.
In the root area, I was aware and had eaten cassava, sweet potatoes and yams, but here is a much larger variety and m,any are good, besides healthy to eat.
As for the funny part, it may not be very funny to others, but my GF is keen on cooking many things that are quite "strange" in my book. So, I have made a deal with her, if she wants me to give it a try, do not tell me what is it prior to testing it, once she fail to do so and She was laughing her head off while I was at WC throwing up. To me, there is no fun to eat the sexual organ of a bull at all !
Jnusb416:
Yeah, I'd probably not feel good after eating it either. That's a food on Fear Factor.
Heh, that's funny, I had the same thing with mushrooms.
For my first few months in China, I was basically a food coward. The look and texture of all Chinese food was horrific to me. Then, one day, something snapped in my head.
Of foods that originally made me gag, probably my current favourite is bbq'd goat's ear. I can't get enough of that sweet stuff.
That being said, still hate most of the fish in China, and I was a big fish eater back home.
Jnusb416:
I miss the fish too, especially salmon. I had some fresh salmon when I went to Japan, it was really good.
One of the things I like best about being in China is trying all the different food. It is certainly not boring. However, I find that when I cook for myself I am now more conversative than I used to be, because I want the familiar flavours I miss from home.
There is a whole slew of veggies that I didn't know existed before that I love now (I always loved mushrooms, but there are sooo many kinds here). Also tofu....I eat soo much of it now.
At the same time there is a multitude of foods I hate now, only because I never knew they existed before (ie...chicken feet, fish heads...etc.).
Win Lose.
All those delicious pig parts being wasted back west...
I never really ate at DQ back home, but I have in China. I like their blizzards they are so.....delicious. Other than that foods like Duck I tried in China but not anywhere else. I was stuck eating chicken all the time. So yes!
