China’s got a big gambit of flavors. I don’t like all of them, and some take acquired tastes. For example I like Pi-dan (that green egg yoke), but I don’t like preserved bean curd. I have to say that the food was good. Of course this is all restaurant food which is hiked up with oil salt, but still it was good.
Here’s the popular shanghai crab. They come with tags so you can read the logistics profile. It’s fresh water and it was pretty tasty. But you got to be patient to eat it as it’s about the size of your fist.
Here is a dish which was pretty tasty. Pork and Enoki mushrooms in a nice spicy sauce, with char sui and some greens on the side. I was surprised the rice was crap in this part of China. Also this part of China your meal is a lot of little dishes like appetizers. Food goes good with beer because it’s salty and spicy.
I think I got a reputation for fish head eating. I eat them, and then people kept ordering it for me to eat. There’s not much meat on it, I just like to pick it apart. Give me something to do while I sit there.
All the food was pretty good. I think it’s better than Japanese food., but at least Japanese food you can be somewhat assured of the quality. Who knows how sanitized the food is in China. Oh well, we at restaurant which is safer than the street food, so I hear. One day we went to a dim sum place and I think this was the best damn dim sum I’ve ever eaten. Of course not to say I haven’t had good dim sum before, but this was a notch above.
I wish I could have captured ever single dish, but then I would have like 50 pictures. Well, and I was embarrassed to take out my camera in front of everyone at the big gatherings. More pictures are : http://davidandlouise.smugmug.com/gallery/2204466
