After the Summer Palace we headed to Wang Fu Jing Street, just East of Tiananmen Square. Wang Fu Jing is home to Beijing's famous night market and the 'delicacies' that it sells. Needless to say I was the only one to have a truly open mind about what to try! We had barely entered and I had eaten some fried small scorpions! I hate to say it but they tasted like chicken! Crunchy but not unpleasant! I was almost put off when I saw a stick where the scorpions were still moving their legs (before being fried I must add)!
Next was starfish and seahorse! The starfish was AWFUL! So tough and not much taste I could only manage a leg and a half! The seahorse was just a bit of a crunch! No discernible taste as such.
Next was snake! And that was GORGEOUS! Very yummy and meat was so lean! It was covered in spices and a lot of salt so I can't tell you how it tasted really!
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| Snake on a Stick! |
Next I decided on some bigger nastier looking scorpions! Oh and some grasshoppers!!
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| The pin-sirs were so chewy! |
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| Sorry do I have something in my teeth? Oh wait its GRASSHOPPER. |
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| Halfway through the Scorpion, beginning to taste Scorpion... |
The grasshoppers were really earthy but not bad. The scorpion legs tasted like bacon and its body tasted like liver! One of my friends shouted in alarm when I had half the scorpion in my mouth, my immediate thought was 'IS IT MOVING?!!!' so I spat it out in pure terror! Turns out all that had happened was that it dribbled some of its insides. YOU SHOULD NEVER SCREAM WHEN SOMEONE NEAR YOU HAS HALF A SCORPION IN HIS MOUTH.
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