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Q: What's the strangest thing you've eaten or drunk in China/Asia?

 For me it's gotta be pig's brains. Dog wasn't bad but made me think of my labrador Ralph turning in his grave. Rice wine with centipedes and snakes was actually pretty good but the dodgiest things i've eaten or drunk have no doubt been things I was unaware of ingesting. So what unusual things have you eaten/drunk by choice? Or found half eaten in your noodles?

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Just the other day I was eating with a friend and he ordered these sea spiral thingys... I didnt get a good translation, but i did spit it out. It was the strongest fishy flavored seafood Ive ever had. I can usually get a bite down, but not that time.

 

 

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When I first came to China many years ago, it was to source agricultural products. This entailed going out of the cities into the countryside. There I found many delicacies. One such delicacy was fried bat on a kind of skewer. Another was rats put through a kind of mangle thing with the innards and fur still in place. The whole thing was then baked in a small stone oven then eaten like a kind of biscuit. Then there was frogs but not fully grown ones. Sort of tadpoles just after the feet and arms had started to form. Tiny things that were all bone. 

 

Other things I have eaten include scorpions, heron meat and inadvertently, dog when I was unaware of what it was. But still the one thing that made my blood curl was a hotpot banquet with some government officials. A dish of live shrimps were brought to the table and one guy lifted one with his chopsticks. Whilst it was still wiggling and trying to escape, he ate the whole thing live.

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 Yeh, i've come across the 'screaming prawns' dish. Never seen them eaten wriggling though.

 Did try pig's penis once (as in Porky pig, not an officer of the law who'd stopped me for speeding) and even managed to get a piece of pig's penis stuck in my throat. Now 'that' is one sentence I certainly never imagined myself saying.

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fried jellyfish

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