Chinese sausage

[liuzhou]

Even worse than the 'train sausages' above are these monstrosities. 'Pork' sausages which sit all day on these revolving heated rollers in cabinets in many convenience stores and shopping malls. Sold on a stick and dripping with grease - I've had drier soups!

 

 

A disgrace to the name sausage. People refuse vaccines because they 'don't know what's in them' but willingly digest these obesity bombs!  😳

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

Even worse than the 'train sausages' above are these monstrosities. 'Pork' sausages which sit all day on these revolving heated rollers in cabinets in many convenience stores and shopping malls. Sold on a stick and dripping with grease - I've had drier soups!

 

 

A disgrace to the name sausage. People refuse vaccines because they 'don't know what's in them' but willingly digest these obesity bombs!  😳

 

 

Here hotdogs are heated in a similar arrangement.  When I'm hungry I've had worse.

 

[liuzhou]

17 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Here hotdogs are heated in a similar arrangement.  When I'm hungry I've had worse.

 

 

Yes. Those machines are universal. The sausages may or may not be.

Edited March 7, 2022 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

These sausages were hand made by an amazing 95 year-old woman of the the Dong ethnic minority. She is illiterate and speaks only an unusual Dong dialect spoken by only around 20 similarly aged people. Her language has no written form. I can only communicate with her through her daughter who can speak her dialect, but not fluently. The daughter also speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, standard Dong, French and English (all fluently) and has a doctorate in anthropology (which she studied in French).

 

The mother is ferociously independent and still makes her own food and clothing, grows vegetables and slaughters pigs and chickens at the drop of a hat! And makes sausages. But, on rare visits to the city, refuses to use elevators or escalators - they are the work of the devil!

 

Like many of the older generations of some ethnic minorities she has a strong taboo against being photographed, so no picture. Sorry.

 

The sausages are pork with glutinous rice and are quite spicy.

 

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

These are fun.

Most (around 440,000) of the Gelao ethnic minority (仡佬族 - gē lǎo zú) live in Guizhou Province to the north-west of here. There are also approximately 3,000 in Vietnam. They do  have their own language, unrelated to Chinese, but very few (<1,000) still speak it today.

 

They eat some of the spiciest food in China, including these tiny sausages.

 

 

7cm / 3¾" long, they come pre-cooked, so ready-to-eat. Ferociously spicy yet still almost salami-like in flavour. These are a favourite beer food!

 

Edited March 20, 2022 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

Another horror story is these.

 

If you agree that fish and cheese make a diabolical pairing, then look away. In fact, even if you disagreee, it might be best to look away, anyway.

 

 

The two in the centre are labelled as 'Fish and Cheese Sausages". The fish is line-caught surimi from unpolluted crystal clear waters in a secret exotic location, The cheese is well-matured, artisan, industrial paste. They are marketed at children and idiots.

The other two wrapped in the yellowish condoms are just the fish. In fact both sausages are the same color - a delicately subtle shade of vacuity. The  slightly smaller one is the fish and cheese.

 

 

Edited April 2, 2022 by liuzhou (log)

[Kerala]

Avoid the smooth ones, try the gnarly, is the message I'm taking home. I will keep an eye out next time I'm in Asiana!

[liuzhou]

19 minutes ago, Kerala said:

Avoid the smooth ones, try the gnarly

 

Not always

[liuzhou]

These things are industrially made, but surprisingly good for that genre. Hot smoked garlic sausage. Good for just munching on or chopping up and adding to fried rice. It's 28cm / 11 inches long.

 

 

[liuzhou]

Here is a new one to me. In Shanghai there is a company named 肉管家 (ròu guǎn jiā) which means Housekeeper or Butler Meat, although they have chosen "Mr Meat" as their English name. The company caters mainly to foreigners, of which there are many in Shanghai, but they also ship elsewhere. They specialise in American cuts of meat of all types, but mostly beef. They also do their own beef sausages using beef from Australia. In addition, they do these sausages.

 

 

You may be thinking they are blood sausages, as I did first time I saw them, but no. These are Mr Meat's Cuttlefish Sausages - 肉管家墨鱼肠 (ròu guǎn jiā mò yú cháng). Inside they look like this.

 

 

The actual cuttlefish is mixed with pork and the cuttlefish ink and spicing and stuffed into natural pork casings.  720 grams (a touch over 1½ pounds) of sausages costs me ¥144.32 or $19.76, so expensive for here. But a nice change.

 

Edited October 2, 2023 by liuzhou (log)