| I have eaten some weird and wonderful
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| | I say aware of rather than ate because
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| dishes around the world but some of the
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| | even me with my cast iron constitution
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| more interesting concoctions have been
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| | couldnt stomach what I am about to
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| served up to me in China.
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| | describe to you. Anyway I am not sure if
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| A particularly interesting delicacy I ate
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| | its just a popular folklore or if people
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| some years ago consisted of Cow\'s
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| | really did this. I am sure it must be
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| bronchial tubes - the airways between the
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| | illegal now, if its not it should be!
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| cow\'s lungs and windpipe (gruesome!) in
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| | Legend has it that, particularly in the
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| a light white wine sauce.
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| | southern parts of China, people had a
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| The appearance of a plate full of
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| | specially designed ritualistic table with
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| macaroni, the taste of nothing but the
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| | a hole in the centre, just big enough to
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| white wine sauce and the consistency of
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| | take the upper part of a Monkeys head.
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| over-cooked calamari, you could describe
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| | Apparently the ritual consisted of
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| this dish as the original Chinese chew
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| | capturing a live Monkey and securing it
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| recipe!
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| | with its head wedged up in to hole in the
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| Another time I was served with a plate of
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| | centre of the table. The next step in the
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| vermicelli with 20 or so delicately
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| | ritual was to trepanne the top of the
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| arranged deep-fried crispy scorpion
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| | live monkeys skull off and pour boiling
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| complete with sting!
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| | water into the Monkeys brain.
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| The trick to eating this particular
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| | People sitting around the table would
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| delicacy was to convince myself it was
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| | then proceed to eat the braised Monkey
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| nothing more than a prawn and all I had
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| | brain with chopsticks directly out of the
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| to do was to pick it up with my
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| | Monkeys skull.
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| chopsticks and slip it into my mouth.
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| | I did warn you it was gruesome it cant
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| Actually once I had said to myself its a
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| | possibly be true, can it?
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| prawn, its a prawn 20 times this was not
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| | Fortunately the dishes that we are more
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| such an ordeal and basically the texture
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| | familiar with are not quite so outlandish
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| was, well, just crisp! and the only taste
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| | and use much more traditional
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| was of the oil it had been fried in, not
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| | ingredients. There are many easy Chinese
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| so much of a Chinese chew, more of a
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| | recipes on the Chinese food menu, just as
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| Chinese crisp!
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| | well really because I dont know about you
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| But Cows bronchial tubes and deep fried
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| | but I think I must be part Chinese as I
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| crispy scorpion are not the most gruesome
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| | love the food and all about the place.
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| dish I am aware of.
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