Many of you have had fun and unique food experiences while traveling.  Here are a few of mine.

After flying all night to Southern China (a 14 hour flight), driving 2 hours to a remote hotel for a breakfast meeting, I walked in and within 2 minutes I was served this:

That’s a turkey foot.  In gelatin.

I was in the outskirts of Beijing in a Sichuan restaurant. Authentic Sichuan food is fire hot. I love spicy food, but I had no idea that food could be that hot. Some people must have an iron stomachs, the smell entering the restaurant burned my eyes!

One dish, which I don’t have a photo of, was a full fish (head, tail, fins, skin, etc) that had been boiled in a pot of oil. The oil had what looked like hundreds of red chili’s in it. The Chinese name translates to ‘water cooked fish’, but there is no water involved, it is fish cooked in large pot of chili oil.

I did take a photo of an appetizer dish, peanuts and fish heads.

It’s peanuts, fish-heads, and ‘vegetables’.  Anything  green is described as ‘vegetables’.  And this dish is served cold.

When I was in Hanover  in northern Germany at the Domotex flooring trade show I found myself walking back from a couple of pints with a co-worker and we saw this advertisement in a MacDonald’s restaurant window:

They don’t have chicken nuggets they have schnitzel nuggets (pieces of veal, breaded and fried). Different strokes for different folks.

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