Beijing Night Market

  Beijing, China
Tuesday, July 4, 2006

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That evening we were to meet other travellers at the night market. We left from the hostel late, as I had been feverishly giving some imfos to two french couples who were planning to go hiking in the Orkhon valley, where I had just been horseriding, in Mongolia.

There were in fact two places not too far one from the other, and we got what we came from: THINGS to eat!

What we tried:
- chiken, beef, octopus, hearts, all fried on a stick. Good.
- fried rice balls stuffed with vegetables. Goooood!
- fried scorpions. Very crispy.
- fried worms: these splatter into your mouth, as they are all juicy inside. Chewing the outer part of the worm is another story.
- fried snake flesh: it was awful! I guess we'll have to taste proper snake meat somewhere else
- fresh fruits dipped into liquid sugar: sticky but really good

What we did not try:
- fried snake skin
- fried hippocampi
- fried crickets or grasshoppers
- fried baby chicken (whole)
- boiled-in-the-eggshell chicken foetuses
- snails
- and many more that were not proposed to us...


I have put a video of the scorpions, you can see they are fresh and still moving while waiting empaled on the frying stick.

Healthy food, we had "a bit of everything", and I found these culinary experiences very interesting... to be continued!




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