Huanglongxi Food
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 18 May 2018 22:37
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Some of the Food on Offer, Huanglongxi Ancient Town,
China
 We began our
gastronomic look at the foods on offer in Huanglongxi with what at first glance seemed ‘normal’ but
fishy.
   Deep fried
crab, fish and prawns, OK
so far.
  Larva of something also available on sticks, along with
beetle, grasshopper and scorpion............
  Squid and intestine of
duck.................Oh my.................
   Corn grinding machine for corn
cake and rice
cakes.
  Tofu, different colours and
aromas.
   Eight to ten
muscles for around eight
pounds. Freshly ground herbs and choose-your-own eels.
   Pick-your-own fish.
  To call it
Beijing duck seems ridiculous, most places it’s still Peking duck.
    Now tis was
a different story. Walnuts, peanuts, corn nuts and treacle
are roasted together. Next, two men turn the mixture out on to a wooden
block and pound it flat with a pair of big hammers.
One man folds the patty in thirds each way and pound it again repeating this
process until the correct mix is tidied around the edges and cut into cubes with a cleaver. The aroma was rich, gorgeous and a million calories a cube. As for most
of the rest of the ‘stuff’ we saw.....at one point I said, if they could fry
snot and put it on a stick, they would. Menus offered soft-shell turtle, birds
nest soup along with some quite horrific looking
‘stuff’.
   Fried chicken feet a pound a portion, corn-stuffed fried chicken wings and dumplings.
  Fresh tea leaves dried for fifty minutes and bagged ready
for sale as green tea.
   A surprise
find was a sausage man grilling a variety of
flavours. A sparkling kebab machine and
another stall where kebabs were marinating
in the sun.
  Incredibly
hot spicy, dodgy and smeared ‘stuff’ over noodles or rice for breakfast. Please may I stick to
muesli........
   Ice lolly machine, real fruit pieces on
sticks and plastic demonstration models to
point to.
  Smoke machine and meat drying
cabinet.
   Wiggly things, thankfully fruits that look ‘normal’ and
syrupy things.
 A noodle-maker ‘in love’ with his
job............
 Dried and fried pig face anyone
????
   Ohhhhh, back
to big, fat, black scorpions, more grasshoppers, ohhhh, just cannot face scorpion, funnily enough, neither did
Bear....
 ALL IN ALL WHAT VARIETY, SOME DISTINCTLY DODGY
WHAT WON’T THEY EAT
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