Chicken, fish, veggies and rice...it's all at the market on the side street downtown. I can't tell ya which town. Security is too tight there. But it's in China! So how does one cook dinner there? First you walk down to the market. Everything in China is fresh. Most folks don't have refrigerators (although it seems everyone has a cell phone!) so food is bought and prepared fresh every day. Sometimes I have to be careful when I walk down Chinese markets. I really don't want to watch them kill the chicken so it's "fresh" when they give it to you. I'm truly an American when it comes to that and prefer to buy my chicken boneless, skinless, sitting on a piece of styrofoam and shrink wrapped! In the end, it doesn't resemble chicken at all! Yay! So here it goes, the pictures pretty much tell the story (minus the yuky part - sorry guys). These are open-air restaurants where we ate but most of the food comes from the market vendors. There's no canned or prepackaged food here.
There's one dish where they batter the fishes body and fry it with the head out of the oil so it's still alive and breathing when it comes to your table! This one really got me!
The restaurants along the street pull out their grills and tables and chairs and cook outside when the weather is nice. The whole town comes out to eat and chat the evening away. The fires under the woks and grills lining the streets look magical in the dusk!
These are goat heads. The brain is inside. Yes, they cook and eat them! They're very popular... It's not for the faint-hearted.
What was on the menu that evening - grilled potatoes, mixed vegetables, shrimp, lobster, chicken, cicadas...
Cicadas... Did I say cicadas? Uhha...
There was a feast each evening!
It's embarassing how much food we could put away in one sitting! Really, we were like slugs and would have to sit back and wait awhile before we were able to walk again!
There's one dish where they batter the fishes body and fry it with the head out of the oil so it's still alive and breathing when it comes to your table! This one really got me!
The restaurants along the street pull out their grills and tables and chairs and cook outside when the weather is nice. The whole town comes out to eat and chat the evening away. The fires under the woks and grills lining the streets look magical in the dusk!
These are goat heads. The brain is inside. Yes, they cook and eat them! They're very popular... It's not for the faint-hearted.
What was on the menu that evening - grilled potatoes, mixed vegetables, shrimp, lobster, chicken, cicadas...
Cicadas... Did I say cicadas? Uhha...
There was a feast each evening!
It's embarassing how much food we could put away in one sitting! Really, we were like slugs and would have to sit back and wait awhile before we were able to walk again!
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