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Q: Weirdest thing you have eaten here?
Try anything at least once right??
Generally im not a big Chinese food fan but since all my closest friends are Chinese I have many opportunities to try wierd shit. Some highlights/ lowlights:
小鸟- Tiny whole deep friend sparrows. Not gutted or cut at all. I got half way threw one bite and nearly yakked when i heard the bones breaking and felt some organs crushing. A traumatic experience.
Fried chicken testicles- Same dinner as the sparrows above. I managed to put them in my mouth but couldnt bring myself to bite.
Large BBQ scorpion on a stick- You see them in touristy walking streets. Too be honest, it actually tasted pretty great, but again, the texture made me sick.
Soft shell turtle shell- Cooked in this great soup with pears and passion fruit. Tasted like nothing. Felt like partially solidified sperm. ........ im imagining.... no really..... guys?? GUYS???
How about you, any wierd things I should act like im gonna eat and spit into a napkin????
I should note, all of the above save the scorpion could be a lie. Chinese love to either A: tell you its normal food then reveal the monster after you have eaten it or B tell you its really exotic then once you have finished laugh at you and tell you it was just pork. I have fucked up friends.
At my regular Chuanr restaurant I really love the cricket dish, which is a bit bizarre. I think it's the spices and the MSG - it just tastes so good, not too different from crisps.
Also sea urchin fried rice which was bizarre and I don't like it.
There's a dog hot pot restaurant near me but I wouldn't try it.
In Shenyang : fried silk worms, at various development stages, from small worm to large alien beast thing. I was with a family, they all ate that like it was shrimps, so why the hell not ? It tasted like a really oily shrimp paste, the texture was not a great memory. I downed those with cold beer.
We eat oysters alive and we cook snails back home, and lots of other weird stuffs, so I'm rarely impressed ^^
In the surroundings of Guangzhou: one bowl of "soup", from a jar labeled "vinegar" that's been visibly around for a while. Legit food as far as the term goes in China (meaning they knew the deal and we all had a bowl).
The best description I could get for this taste would be "edible diarrhea". Diarrhea because it truly smells and tastes like diarrhea from the next public toilet, and "edible" because drinking it isn't nauseating like I had expected it to be. The taste doesn't stick to the mouth and is gone after a drink. It is a quick and clean breeze of fresh diarrhea in your mouth.
This is my best achievement yet in terms of stomach bravery.
sorrel:
you've tried stinky tofu from Changsha then ?
matches the description you have given.
I would end up nauseous while out on the streets there because of the constant over-powering smell.
but that was not the worst thing i ate ......
Well...
Donkey. It's just... too chewy.
Scandinavian:
at least donkey is not as spicy as turtle (Hunan kitchen)
andy74rc:
Then not properly cooked. While instead,if properly done, is a very tasty meat.
You know those large noise making beetle-like insects?
I ate those, it was like prawns. I have had some of the following weird food:
- spicy chicken feet (I like it, packs a kick)
- duck neck (I really like this)
- sea cucumber (expensive and tastes like... rubber)
- bull frog (not really weird and one of my favorites)
- fried salty bees (didn't really like them, felt weird eating them)
- pig rectum (very chewy and a strange acidic taste)
I am good about blocking out what I am eating as long as I enjoy the taste.
The weirdest things I have eaten are:
-Rams testicles
-Chicken stomach & heart
-Pirahna fish
-Chicken arse
I have also eaten zebra though but that was back in the UK.
- Tadpoles
- Roasted bat
- Silkworm cocoons
- Meat from a large unidentified wading bird (heron maybe?)
The weirdest I've eaten were the scorpions on a stick from the wangfujing street in Beijing, dog, and the organs that many westerners find distasteful. Did you know that duck tongues have bones? I know now after chewing through mine awkwardly.
What looked like giant woodlice 
i was taken to a very high class restaurant for lunch by local friends.
I smiled as i chewed quickly and drank a mouthful of VERY hot tea after.
note to anonymous posters:
see how the OP not only did not post anonymously, but also shared some personal experience in the question?
result? interesting and non-inflammatory answers.
apologies for the 'teacher' coming out with this answer.
Donkey penis in the far North of Heliongjiang, various insects as well as dog in Guangxi, funny mushrooms in Fujian, Sea cucumber in Shandong.
Not weird but extreme, the spiciest dish I have ever tried (and trust me I know a lot about pepper) that hurts more when it goes out a few hours later than when it comes inside, in Sichuan. I really thought I was about to die on the throne.
In no particular order:
1. pig shoulder (just a bunch of fat really)
2. donkey dumplings (not bad)
3. dog soup (when in Rome....)
4. chicken and duck head chuanr (pretty good really)
5. pig brain (they said it would make me smarter)
Animal testicles were okay... definitely weird. But okay.
Dog was okay... weird, but okay.
Cat was good. Fox was good. Rat was good.
Donkey... no thanks ever again. Like ever.
To anyone that eats dog or cat, I hope you get a fatal case of worms. Best I can do is thumb you down. China has too many falked up culinary delights, deep fried whole baby chicks, whole sparrows on a stick, eggs cooked in urine. I'm surprised that they don't eat sh*T.
Weird things,, congealed blood, too many things I was afraid to ask about, floating arteries chunks make the soup look like a bowl of chicken as*holes.
Stiggs:
You're surprised people don't eat s**t ?
Technically not eating it I suppose but is this close enough for you?
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2014-10/30/content_33918132.htm
Quinn68:
Agreed. Thumbs down for all the dog eaters out there. May you all choke to death.
Robk:
Yeah, I won't eat dog or cat. Just too much attachment to them. Also, they way they butcher them and torture them is just horrible.
dongbeiren:
So death wishes on anyone who has TRIES dog? Jesus man. I had a bowl of soup with a little piece of dog meat once. Can you just wish diarrhea on me instead? Do you wish death on the millions of Chinese who eat dog too?
TedDBayer:
To the millions of Chinese that have anything to do with the cruelty inflicted on the dogs, I hope they are rewarded in some way,, oh wait,, they are, they get to be Chinese.
If you haven't seen any of this cruelty, google it, I've never seen anything that compares and they do eat pets, Collies with collars are not meat.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/four-puppies-rescued-yulin-dog-meat-festival-china-1452873
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrBB_zxlBeebJ1LAcoASSoV9d6LGf1OkfQi6kIeFWV13FRv3RU5A https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfdCMPP9_8gBcTPqawPYI8ExVH3ItjQQiVCnkv9QIn2ZYLVEHCStarfish. That was an experience that I will not have again. The only time I've thrown-up in China.
1) Sea cucumber. What a gigantic culinary BS.
2) Crocodile. Chewy and taste a bit like chicken. Not worth the effort.
mike695ca:
I had crocodile once but it was in florida and they made it like mc nuggets with a tangy sauce. Really quite good!
Robk:
I agree with you on the sea cucumber.
It is expensive and tastes like eating chewy tire. Mmmm mmm... good!
dongbeiren:
MMM I like me some crocodile. Had some amazing fresh crocodile in Thailand last year. Also in Florida/NYC I've had alligator. I quite like the texture.
Boiled split duck heads in joint in Tangshan, Hebei.
Restaurant is specialized: duck heads and booze only items on the menu!
