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Originally Posted by YOhio
In my experience, formal Chinese food is more bizarre than the everyday stuff. Eating exotic and expensive, albeit disgusting, foods is a way the Chinese upper class can seperate themselves from the peasants. The everyday Chinese food that you buy off the streets is terrific.
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I remember going down a street in Beijing where they were selling scorpions on a stick and grasshoppers on a stick. That was the only thing in China that I just couldn't bring myself to try.
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