Last week, I shared the top number 6 to 4 unbelievable Chinese dishes. Some of you may know one or two of the three dishes. Probably, you can accept one or two. I am so glad you are brave and lucky that you will know those delicious food that other people never taste. If you are curious about them, just go to try. You cannot judge them by their appearance or smell. You need to use your other senses to better assess one thing. To taste it, gustation is the best way to judge food. You never know how it tastes without tasting. Attention, if you still cannot accept the Chinese food culture I talked last week, please be careful about the content I am going to introduce later. Hahaha, I am not scaring you. I promise they are all delicious. I just want you know more about what Chinese eat that is different than foreign. It is part of Chinese culture. And I want people know more about China. TOP 3: Chinese style fish When I just came to United Sates to study, I found that people here only eat filleted fish without bone. While in China, we cook fish whole, which maintains the savory fish. You may think it is scared to see the fish head, it is not necessary to keep the head because there is nothing to eat, it is troublesome to eat fish with bones, while Chinese like to eat food what it is. keeping the head and bones makes food more flavorous. Of course, the fish will be completely scaled and gutted. There are many ways to cook fish, such as boiled fish as soup, steamed, braised, and fried. And there is a famous dish called steamed pepper fish head. For Chinese, the fish head is a very nourishing part that it contains a nutrient helping to "improve liver function and lower cholesterol." The fish head also can be commonly cooked as soup. And the steamed pepper fish head is much more famous with the spicy and sour flavor. it can be steamed with red pepper, green pepper, or red and green pepper. Usually, after finishing the fish head, we will keep the sauce and eat noodle with it. http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/10/flavor-in-a-fish-head/ TOP 2: Animal innards Well, you must think it is horrible, dirty, evil. But no, they are also edible ingredients from chicken, pig, beef...... I cannot believe how you miss these delicious food. Fuqi Fei Pian (Husband and Wife Lung Slices) This name came from a story that this dish is created and sold by a couple. Thus it known as the lung slices sold by a couple. It is made of beef slices and beef offal, including beef heart, lung, tongue, and tripe, stirring with special flavoured spicy sauce, Mao Xue Wang is made of duck blood and pig offal, also commonly with bean sprout, asparagus lettuce, ham, and eel. As you can see from the picture, it is spicy, but I love it! It is really delicious, it is a common dish in many Chinese restaurant. In addition to the two dishes that can be found at Chinese restaurant, there are many other home cooking dishes, such as braised pig intestine, stir fried scalloped pig kidney, stir fried chicken giblets with chicken heart, intestine, gizzard, so on, and the soup with spinach and pig liver. Although the first two dishes contain pepper, they are not spicy. But the stir fried chicken giblets is really spicy and delicious. Besides, we cook the spinach and pig liver together because both of the two ingredients are nutritious that they can relieve fatigue and blood deficiency. TOP 1: Pig's brain Here it is! This the the Top 1 that I think you probably will never try, even many Chinese can accept it. People are afraid of it because it is brain, While I like it. We eat pig's brain as food commonly spicy and with hot pot. There is a folk adage saying "you are what you eat" thus people think eat brain can make them smart, while I do not know whether it is true. Many people can accept it when they do not know what it is. Thus I think they are just scared what it is but it tastes good. Thank you for your reading of these two posts. Hope you do not hate Chinese food after reading. I hope you can have chance to try them without judgement of the name, looking, smell, just do it. Thank you again!
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3/2/2017 02:18:07 pm
"reads Number 1"
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Yuqing
3/3/2017 09:16:40 am
I know it is hard for you to accept it. But I have no problem with it. I grow up with this culture and I love these food. Hope one day if you have chance to go to China, be brave to try them.
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3/7/2017 09:06:34 am
Your blog make me very interesting in go to Chine, I really like these foods , for me fish are the most tasty food and I want to try the everything hahahah...keeping sharing this if us ! I can't wait to check your next post
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Marine Uyttenhove
3/10/2017 08:05:36 pm
ALALALALALA!!!
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