Food

I’m sometimes asked by Chinese people if popular international fast food restaurants are in the USA too. This isn’t as foolish of a question as it at first seems.

Food is cheap in China. I’ve said it before, now here’s the proof.

I drink bad milk and pay the price. Getting sick is part of travel, it just hits a little harder when you know you did it to yourself.

Check out this crazy chicken defeathering machine.

Mongolians have simplified the food pyramid down to one lump category: animal food. They consume milk and animals and some noodles and that’s about it. They say their diet is what makes them so strong.

As Mao once said: people who consume diets heavy in hot peppers are natural revolutionaries. An exploration into the “hot pepper spirit” in Hunan.

So you have a choice: learn how to communicate with people or eat what they do.

Guì huā lián’ǒu is what you get when you take a lotus root, stuff its cavities with sticky rice, and cook it in a vat of sweetened brine.

Batter is dumped into a diesel engine and a long tube of popcorn stick, mihuagun, comes out like toothpaste. I have no idea how this machine works, but I thought it was pretty cool none the less.