Food in China....

Food.....

I love food....yummy...

Some people work and live to eat, others eat to live and work...

I am definitely the former....I need to eat when stressed or depressed....
Somehow food is a mood lifter for me! However it must be the appropriate food though...

Somehow I have not been able to find joy in eating recently. Life hasn't been worth eating for or celebrating...

I am slowly finding the joys of trying new food once again, slowly but coming along...

Here are my two cent's worth of opinion on Chinese food...

China's a place for chinese food..yep i know i am not talking sense....
I have tried japanese food but it isn't that great...
Perhaps it's because I tried it in Wuhan and it's not known for its japanese culinary specialities...and perhaps I was expecting fresher sashimi and beef tataki...

Wuhan food does have influences of the Southern cusine (Cantonese and Szechuan) as well as influences from the Northen cusine (Beijing). But the food here is mainly of the heavier, oilier and spicier variety...aka....Szechuan style...

People here do eat offals of animals....be it pig offals or cow offals...
So do ask esp if you seek squiqqly stuff...

However other than my previous experience with tortoise, i have yet been offered wild animals......
Once is more than enough! I am still traumatised from eating it..
Eewwwww...

I haven't seen dogs or cats on the menu and I am grateful for it!

The most exotic other than tortoise was frog's legs! And I am sure some of you would scream at me for saying this...but frog's legs are actually quite good! They taste like chicken meat but more tender...

But the Wuhanese tend to serve frogs instead of frog's legs! i.e. they eat the whole thing so as not to waste it!
So....I am still unsure about that kinda food...

Usually I stick to safe stuff.....
Thank god I can read chinese....
sometimes pictures don't show the whole thing and sometimes the only english available doesn't indicate the whole picture...

Somehow I would like to know what I am eating here!

Anyhow, i have included a picture of my food...just for kick's sake..hehehe....
I haven't been around much...so haven't been able to take photos...

The meal shown was damn cheap! I even had beer with my colleague and it came up to RMB90!
And this is at one of the slightly better (aka cleaner) restaurant!
But it was also oily.....look at the tofu! It is practically floating in oil!
I guess food only looks good and shiny on photos when it's oily...well and oil does make some food tastier (???)
hehe...so it's all for aesthetic purposes as well as for taste purposes (well some might say that...)



Dinner at Tai Zhi