Want To Have Dinner At Beijing?
ADVERTISEMENTSA friend if mine send me a few pictures of what people eat at Beijing during night and I almost vomited seeing them. Now it’s your turn 
Also check out this Video:
I wonder how they manage to eat snakes, scorpions, silkworms, locusts and starfish. All I can say is…yuck!!!
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Posted on August 19th, 2007 | Category: Great Finds |
Alexandru
August 20, 2007 at 12:21 am
All I can say is .. yumm!!!
Come on, tasting the local food is one of the best ways of getting to know a country and its people. What’s the fun in just visiting monuments and temples? I wouldn’t eat dog meat since I own one, but scorpions and snake? Yup.
Brad Detchevery
August 20, 2007 at 5:35 am
What looks disgusting to one culture appears normal to another culture.
When I was younger, I often heard “You can’t say you don’t like it until you at least try it”
..I’ll have to remember to show him some of these pictures and see if he changes his mind
Balinese
August 20, 2007 at 6:30 am
Yeah I agree. At last you have to tried it before you judged it
who knows it might be taste good although I would never ever give a try to those food.
gaman
August 20, 2007 at 7:43 am
It’s their delicacies. It might look disgusting to some people but I would be willing to experience the taste if I were there
bssn
August 20, 2007 at 7:49 am
there’s many ways to cook them, I’m from China.
Nuts & Milk
August 20, 2007 at 11:20 am
Yukk!! thats disgusting!
TipsoSaurus
August 20, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Yiiiikkkkeess! I’ll have the same reaction. Well, the thing you are wondering…is the same thing which I’m wondering too
James Leger
August 20, 2007 at 2:38 pm
One man’s food is another man’s poison. Though I personally would never ever try eating any of that - I still take offense to describing anybody’s food as ‘yuck’.
SteeL
August 20, 2007 at 3:14 pm
how can a Human eat Scorpions, Snakes !!! OMG
Tupac
August 20, 2007 at 3:27 pm
That stuff just looks scary.
The scorpions sent a shiver up my spine o_O
Make money online witha 12 years old kid
August 20, 2007 at 6:42 pm
im wondering how the hell they could touch these things i would run if i saw them
The Credence Dot Com
August 20, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Hey John this is my first comment on your blog but there will be plenty more, I am sure.
I just found your blog few days back and have read lot of information about wordpress which turned to be very useful.
Can you tell me what plugin you are using to show only excerpts on the front page of the blog ? I also want to use it, only show 4-5 lines than put a link to the post url
Also which part of Kerala are you from ? I am also from India
Regards
Shivaranjan
August 20, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Even my reactions is the same but looks like people over there love these.
Nuts & Milk
August 20, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Lets head over to Beijing to taste the food n decide :p
Bidding Directory
August 20, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I’m hungry! Nice pictures mate!
Nirmal
August 21, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Different countries and continents have different food. But I think Chinese are the only people who have snakes and scorpions. Lets head to Beijing and decide.
Shaun Carter
August 21, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I’ve never been very adventurous in my culinary pursuits, so nothing in those pictures is anything I would ever try for myself. It is interesting how different everyone’s cultures and customs are from one another. I’m sure to some people out there in the world, french fries would be considered gross.
thisiscool
August 21, 2007 at 4:58 pm
That was really YUK….
I wonder how people can eat such kind of food.
Ashok Arora
August 21, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Delicious ……
JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes
August 21, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I guess some might really dig that stuff, but like a couple of the commmenters - most of that stuff really freaks me out! And even if it did taste good, I don’t know if I could get past the texture or appearance of most of those things. I guess I’m not an adventurous eater…
Vijay
August 21, 2007 at 7:37 pm
People in Vietname eat street dogs, if I am not wrong. The long standing association of chinese and their delicacies is well known.. I wouldnt come near those food stuffs with a barge pole
Nirmal
August 21, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Eating Street dogs? Crazy or what?
MoneyNing
August 22, 2007 at 8:53 am
That’s pretty gross but Chinese food is the best!
Google Fan
August 22, 2007 at 3:58 pm
John, same feeling here. truly yukkk!!
perde
August 23, 2007 at 12:03 am
Put it another way. There are too many people but not that much of food resources.
Webmaster Money
August 23, 2007 at 4:38 am
I dont understand how it is eatable when you have to open it, peal it, remove some parts and than you have just little peace of something what might be good. I think it is not worthy for me but Understand that for others it might be chalange.
prashanth
August 23, 2007 at 8:37 pm
great food there dude,makes me smack my lips
Ronald
August 24, 2007 at 9:16 pm
WOW, eating scorpion… it’s terrible LOL
KingJacob
August 25, 2007 at 11:52 am
I wonder what starfish tastes like Id imagine probally like an overdone onion ring.
Prognog
August 27, 2007 at 10:45 am
I understand that certain foods are delicacies in different cultures, but some of that stuff is pretty hard to swallow…
Crystal
August 29, 2007 at 7:29 am
Ew, all I needed to see was the star fish and I almost vomited. Thanks
TechnoJuice
August 29, 2007 at 2:22 pm
It is amazing how ppl who don’t mind eating chicken can call starfish disgusting ! As far as I am concerned any dead animals is disgusting.
vj
August 30, 2007 at 3:07 pm
yuck!!!
Amit
August 31, 2007 at 2:01 am
well John, I agree with Brad & James above, what looks disgusting to one person maybe other’s delicacy!! while I might not eat those snakes, scorpions etc. since I don’t feel comfortable with the idea, I certainly will not “yuck” them. just think of it, some of our Indian food, the way its made make foreigners go “yuck” but then we who have tasted it know that its tasty!
psssssssshhh
September 1, 2007 at 3:43 am
Looks like scavenger food to me. Something only the truly desperate would eat. Disgusting!
16 year old money blog
September 1, 2007 at 7:33 am
i really hate all that kind of food, here in mexico, some people eat “chapulines” kind of rare insects with large foots.. i really hate eat insects.
Ronald
September 1, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Hi guyz, did ever eat snake?
Han
September 3, 2007 at 4:52 am
I got yelled at when I tried to take photos of the scorpions on sticks in Beijing! It was scary!
best
September 3, 2007 at 11:46 am
you didn’t show ppl eating animals alive, im serious
Simonne
September 4, 2007 at 10:01 pm
When I’ve been to Beijing I ate jelly fish. I did not know what it was, until a colleague asked our Chinese hosts. I can tell you jelly fish tastes good, but I don’t know if I had tried it knowing what it was.
emigre
September 7, 2007 at 4:52 pm
All this eating insects, rats etc originated from farmers who were so poor that they literally had to forage in the fields to look for food.
Every culture has its own food that’s gross to other cultures. I’m Chinese but from Singapore and I’m extremely conservative when it comes to food.
Basically I like my food not moving and not belonging to the insect family.
kamal
September 9, 2007 at 8:28 pm
sharing the sin.Beware god is watching.
Aldimeola
September 14, 2007 at 12:57 am
It’s their delicacies. It might look disgusting to some people but I would be willing to experience the taste if I were there
Allen Lee Taylor
December 7, 2007 at 1:48 am
Thanks for linking my video from my trip to china. A lot of the food looked and smelled great and I would have tried some of it, but we just came from a big meal-I now lame excuse. Even still, much I don’t think I would have gambled on trying out.
Just a side note, not everyone in China eats all of these items. Many find them disgusting too or have their own local (within china)strange food they prefer. Just like any culture.
Hephaestion
March 10, 2008 at 1:26 am
I have Iranian friends who are repulsed by the notion of eating peanut butter. Apparently they don’t have it there and it seems very bizarre to them.
I have a French friend who refuses to eat corn, too. She insists that in France only farm animals eat corn. Different places, different cuisines!
Scorpio Girl
June 1, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Well the scropions and snakes, silk worms, shrimp and crickets look interesting
Worth a try - and it seems I’m not the only one - what’s odd to Westeners may be acceptable even sacred to other cukltures and vice versa.
*Adds Beiging Fast Food night market to her placed to go*
lol Scorpio Girl