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It is considered to be a medicine here rather than a tipple when you are thirsty, so it's only available in traditional Chinese pharmacies. I guess you didn't visit so many of them in China. Funnily enough, I'm not doubting you at all, but I don't remember ever seeing it in Vietnam. I did in Laos or Cambodia - I forget which.

We get grilled scorpion here. Scorpion on a stick. Delicious.

Not particularly Vietnamese. We have here in China too (Vietnam probably got it from China) with either snake or lizard. Sometimes, sea horses. I've also drunk grappa in Italy with snake in the bottle. And seen vodka with snake in Russia. Seems to be quite common in many places.

I buy them live. Sometimes, they do jump out of the wok! But these ones were dead before I cooked them. When I cook them shell and head on, it can be fun in the kitchen catching the more energetic ones who object to being tossed into hot oil.

Prawn and asparagus with pappardelle and ponzu.

What the... Pomegranate flavour cranberries? What's wrong with cranberry flavour cranberries? (They also do blueberry flavour cranberries! Cherry flavour cranberries! Snail flavour cranberries!) OK. I made up one of those, but why not! At least there are no c@rn flavour cranberries. Yet.

In this topic! 6th post.

This may be of interest. We Should All Be Eating More Rabbit and this 'World's biggest rabbit' stolen from home in Worcestershire

The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos

I I don't know but it's Japanese, not Chinese.

What is Marco Polo Pasta? Even Mr. Google isn't being helpful.

Well, yes. But I can't get them here at the moment. The European exporters are all in lockdown. And when I can they are damned expensive. But for the right recipe I'd splash out.

I know we have a lentil soup topic but, much as I love lentil soup, I'm looking for other ideas. Indian style dhal is one I make. Any others? Lentils are hard to find here in China, so I want to put my latest purchase to good use. Red, yellow, brown, green. Whatever.

Look closely! Those yellow droplets aren't egg! C@rn!

There are two supermarkets about equidistant from my home - both within an eight minute walk. Today, I went to the other one (I often go to both as they have different things). Today's choice has all the same birds, pork, snails etc I posted above but also: Fried Noodles (made to order). Various Types Fried Rice (complete with Devil's Droppings!) They have a wide range of Dim Sum items including these dumplings. I could have taken a lot more pictures of these if it weren't for the hundreds of ancient crones mobbed round the display area. They are the most aggressive people on the planet! I did manage this one, though. 粽子 (zòng zi). Glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaf and steamed. They come with various ingredients in addition to the rice. These were 板栗肉粽 (bǎn lì ròu zòng) chestnut zongzi. Pork and rice stuffed tofu puffs Prepared salads (Note: These are all cooked.) 艾葉粑 (ài yè bā) - mugwort cakes 发糕 (fà gāo - Brown Sugar Cake

Peppery lobster ball soup with cabbage.

Moscow's palatial Yeliseyevsky food hall closes after 120 years I'm taking this one personally! I lived in Moscow in the late 1980s and visited this place. At that time, the USSR was on its last legs and stores had almost nothing to sell. Russia wasn't short of food, but the infrastructure to get it to the city was bankrupt and corruption endemic. Food trains and trucks were lined up outside the city unable to get in. Only high ranking party members and pampered foreigners like me could get food easily. But the building was beautiful.

That very much depends what you mean by a 'true, good camera'. Many cell phone cameras are better than many dedicated cameras. You really would have to match price ranges. My cell phone camera is better than my Canon Eos 5D Mk IV in some situations. Not many, but some. And the Canon cost around 10 times what the cell phone cost.

Nah. They've taken to sushi. (In fact, there is strong evidence that it originated in China.)

It isn't totally overcooked. The colour is from a soy sauce marinade. That said, the Chinese do not eat rare or even medium meats. It causes immediate death! So they are happy with the wellish done meat. It isn't leather overcooked.

They do a good job here. They have to. No one has an oven at home, so there is really no way to get roasted meats other than the supermarkets or sometimes markets. And Chinese shoppers are demanding. If the meat were over or undercooked, the vendors wouldn't last long. I've had excellent birds and pork from them.

Sort of a tonkatsu-style breaded pork tenderloin with 紫罗兰白菜 (zǐ luó lán bái cài) - violet napa cabbage and 黑皮鸡枞菌 (hēi pí jī cōng jùn) - 'black skin chicken fir mushroom', Oudemansiella raphanipes and Tonkatsu sauce. No points for authenticity, but it was tasty.

Following my posting a supermarket bought roast rabbit in the Dinner topic, @Anna N expressed her surprise at my local supermarkets selling such things just like in the west supermarkets sell rotisserie chickens. I promised to photograph the pre-cooked food round these parts. I can't identify them all, so have fun guessing! Rabbit Chicken x 2 Duck Chicken feet Duck Feet Pig's Ear Pork Intestine Rolls Stewed River Snails Stewed Duck Feet (often served with the snails above) Beef Pork Beijing Duck gets its own counter. More pre-cooked food to come. Apologies for some bady lit images - I guess the designers didn't figure on nosy foreigners inspecting the goods and disseminating pictures worldwide.

This Kiwifruit Isn't From New Zealand at All. It's Chinese, and This Is How It Got Hijacked NOTE: This paragraph below is misleading at best. Taiwanese call it 奇异果 (qí yì guǒ), but it still called 猕猴桃 (mí hóu táo) by around 1 billion Mandarin speaking mainlanders. Taiwan has just over 4 million native speakers of Taiwanese Mandarin.

Genetic Code from 5,700 Year-old ‘Chewing Gum’ Reveals Extraordinary Details of Young Danish Woman You are what you chew!