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zozzen -

A couple went to a restaurant in Dongguan, ordered pig's intestine congee. They found something
strange in the intestine, some creamy stuff with weed and pig feather there and they realized that
was pig excrement.
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20071008/ccc1.htm

Thanks God, my experience isn't that worst. I had tea in a cheap restaurant in Shenzhen, and only
found that the tea was fluorescent.

What's your experience?



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gato -

Why the focus on such negatives? Food is one of the last things people complain about China.










simonlaing -

I Love Chinese food in general but I think long term people should have a story to contribute.

It was in 2002, I think around the dragon boat festival time when I was teaching in Suzhou. The
principal Mr. Cao took us 5 foreign teacher out to Wuxi to have dinner on a Boat restaurant.

At the beginning of the meal he say when I was on my One year abroad in Wisconsin, my host family
forced me to eat stinky blue cheese once a week, so tonight I will have my revenge.

So one of the first dishes he brought out was "fresh" Stinky tofu. This was soft and fetid. Like
Roquefort as soon as it entered the room, the whole room stank of it. Shielding his nose my fellow
teacher Andy reached out and to a Chopstick full. He ate it and turned away so I couldn't see his
reaction. "Come on Simon you have to try it you can't insult MR. Cao now." So I followed is his
lead and put half a spoon ful in my mouth ignoring the rank odor assulting my nostrils. It was
like lumpy, fetid, stale yogurt that caused me to dry gag and spit it out into the napkin. Mr. Cao
and the other teachers knew it was terrible taste and didn't eat it. Next came the Drunk Prawns.
Usually shrimp and prawns look pink and white. These were gray and white . This was the first
problem. Then I looked closer and they were still moving . I taken aback. Mr. Cao assured me " Oh
no we have to the sauce that will cook them. " The waiter poured the hot sauce on the prawns and I
her crackling as the the shrimp cooked. After thirty seconds of cook Mr. Cao here try one and put
one in my plate, (I had been working on my inmouth deshelling ability and so put it in my mouth)
As soon as I felt the tickle of their still live legs out it went into the napkin once more. Mr.
Cao and the other teachers howled in Laughter. Thought of the Mini Series V with aliens that ate
live rodents flashed though my head. What am I becoming.

During the later parts of the meal things went smoother with Drinking toasts a plenty. The Bai jiu
flowed that night. Another fellow teacher Nila, was intent on drinking Mr. Cao under with the Rice
wine toasts. Finally we left the restaurant for the long drive back to Suzhou. It was interrupted
twice for Mr. Cao, Mr. Li and Nila to puke on the side of the road. Nila didn't get out fast
enough and I had some of the dinner sprayed on my dress pants.

Back at the school Mr. Cao, still obviously wasted got in his car and drove home. We opted for the
taxi . This was a good learning expereince for me, and it ranks up there with some of the worst
dinning experiences. Anyone else had drunken prawns?










liuzhou -

I lived in Hunan for a couple of years and regularly ate the stinky doufu. The smell is hard to
take, but the taste I found delicious and the perfect accompaniment to gallons of beer!

Drunken shrimp I've also had a couple of times. Can take or leave them. At least they are stunned.
In Japan, I was just served the shrimps running around the plate non-intoxicated. Really tests
your chopstick skills!

Perhaps the thing which amused me most was then deep fried fish which was served with its mouth
still gasping for air! Luckily, I was sitting next to the resident vegetarian who was
appropriately horrified. Hilarious. And delicious! (The fish, not the vegetarian!)










Lu -

The live fried fish caused such an outrage here that the restaurant that used to serve it no
longer does. Rightly so, I think. At least kill it before you cook it.

My worst dining experiences weren't that bad, in comparison. I couldn't care less about a hair in
my food (once found one long black hair baked into a bread, I pulled it out and ate on) but
recently I found three hairs in my beef intestine soup. I told this to the waiter, who came up
with some lame excuse that those weren't hairs, they were supposed to be inside a cow's stomach.
Yeah right.










mr.stinky -

last week after large quantities of baijiu, our table ordered up a batch of deep-fried whatevers.
not a very strong taste, kinda chewy and stringy, but it took the edge off the alcohol. only
after the last one had been eaten did the xiaojie sitting next to me explain that they were
fried pig 'winkies,' and supposedly have 'medicinal' properties. at least they weren't
served raw.










cdn_in_bj -



Quote:

only after the last one had been eaten did the xiaojie sitting next to me explain that they were
fried pig 'winkies,' and supposedly have 'medicinal' properties

Was she secretly feeding you aphrodisiacs to get you "into the mood"? Did it work?










imron -

Haha, yeah that's one to be careful about, but as the saying goes “吃什么补什么”. Anyway
on menus the character to look out for is "whip" e.g. 牛鞭, 羊鞭 Bull's whip, ram's whip etc
(hmm perhaps this post also belongs in the random word for the day thread). You'll find that many
kebab sellers will have this on their menus in addition to hearts, chicken heads, kidneys and
other assorted organs.










mr.stinky -

打死我也不说!










zozzen -



Quote:

Why the focus on such negatives? Food is one of the last things people complain about China.

it's half -half now. Not only locals complain the hygiene conditions and "fake" food, some
provincial government has also introduced stronger rules against "bad" restaurants. In Dengfeng,
you can refuse to pay the bill if chopsticks and bowls are dirty. It seems so great, but now some
restaurants are selling "clean" pack of chopsticks and bowls. Every time you use it, you'll be
charged RMB2.












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