Thank you all for loving Chinese food. This week I am going to tell you some dishes that are really delicious but are unbelievable and unacceptable to western people. People refuse to eat them may because they smell bad, look strange, or cannot accept what them made from. Actually, every country has their own special food culture, which may unacceptable to others. For example, many Chinese people cannot accept Cheese, rare steak, or Avocado. For my family, we cannot accept rare steak. Especially, I cannot accept the Steak tartare, which is made from chopped raw beef. But not all the people cannot accept the so called unbelievable food. There are so many Chinese like cheese and rare steak. It depends different people's taste. And now Let's look at the 6 dishes that I love and I think most of you may dislike or don't know. Top 6: Stinky Tofu Stinky tofu is a very popular street food in China. Don't be scared of the name. Yes, this kind of tofu has a strong smell. But just like cheese, they both have special smell but taste good. The stinky tofu is made by marinating fresh tofu in special brine usually contains fermented milk, fermented soy bean, shiitake mushroom, bamboo shoot, and many other ingredients depend on different regions. With different recipe of the brine, the color of the tofu is different. After Marinating, just fry the tofu and eat with sauce, commonly spicy sauce. It has crumbly outside and soft interior. I have to say it tastes amazing. Visit this website to know how a foreign's real feeling about this dish in China http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/eat/diy-stinky-tofu-how-make-perfect-albeit-it-smelly-shanghai-street-food-310682/ Top 5: Animal‘s claws Most of you may think how can people eat animals' feet right? They look scared and even don't have meat, especially the chicken and duck feet. While we like how it taste differently than meat, very chewy and interesting by gnawing the skin and tendons off the bone. The common Chinese cuisine is stewing and simmering in flavored sauce, consisting soy sauce, Chinese prickly ash, star anise, cinnamon, and pepper. It is very common eating with beer and wine. And now there is a new recipe that add coke into the sauce to stew the claws, which will make a sweet flavor. Top 4: Animal's blood Blood! Are we Vampire?Of course not. I know that not only Chinese, many other Asian countries also eat blood as food. The animal blood, also known as "blood tofu" commonly from pig, chicken, duck, and goose, is make from coagulated blood. Animal blood dishes are usually braised as spicy or strong flavored. And there are many popular street food that cook duck blood with noddles, rice noodles, or bean thread, which I eat a lot when my mom is lazy doesn't want to cook for me. Here are the Top 6 to 4 special food from Chinese that I want to introduce to you. I stopped here because I want to give you time to accept these first and be ready for the next week.^_^
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Marine Uyttenhove
2/18/2017 08:02:29 am
What I love in asian food is that it is a food with taste but in the same time really healthy and today it is really rare to found this both combination. I'm maybe more a blood person (meat) and vegetable than tofu person. I try one time tofu at the car of the school... okay probably not the good example but. And i really didn't like it. Maybe I should try again but in an asian restaurant this time.
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Marian Miller
2/20/2017 07:34:45 pm
I love this blog because their are some foods in different cultures I will not eat because of the smell or look of it. I know some of them taste amazing but its not what I am use to. The names of Chinese dishes sometimes makes me step back and analyze what I am about to eat. I thank you for sharing these foods and one day, I'll be able able to talk about what I've learned about these different dishes.
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2/21/2017 07:38:38 am
I was always curious about the exotic Chinese foods , because I didn't have an idea how to prepare and how tasty eat something unusual for me , like animal's feet or blood. To be honest I appreciate your courage to it , but I can't..hahaha. Also I thank you for get me know about this .
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2/21/2017 04:29:23 pm
Oh my gosh this is so cool! I love learning about all these different foods. I am always down to try new foods, though I do not know how I feel about trying the animal feet. The reason not being because of the fact that it's feet, but that you described the texture as being chewy and having to gnaw on the skin. I am really big about the texture of food more than the look or smell overall. I don't want to sound creepy or anything but I am actually really interested to try the noodles in animal blood. It actually sounds really good and I am genuinely crurious as to what it tastes like haha
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2/23/2017 07:06:03 pm
I am a huge food lover, so I really enjoy learning about different foods that I have never heard of. Of course, every culture has their own special dishes and I think it's really cool that you are so passionate about discussing the unique foods from your Chinese culture. Personally, I don't know how some people can say "No, I am not going to like that.. it doesn't look good.." How would they know if they haven't tried it yet?? In my opinion, trying new things and experiencing new things is the way to go. Great post!
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Jonluc Borno
2/24/2017 09:28:53 pm
"many Chinese people cannot accept Cheese, rare steak, or Avocado"
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