Monday, August 4, 2008

Scorpion kebab, anyone? It's fast food Beijing style...

By Geoffrey Wansell
Last updated at 11:29 PM on 03rd August 2008

There is a Cantonese saying that the Chinese eat everything that flies, except aeroplanes; everything with four legs, except tables; and everything that swims, except submarines - and visitors to Beijing's fast-food market during the Olympic Games will be left in no doubt of that...

Laid out in trays and boiling in cauldrons are everything from goat lungs with red peppers to scorpion brochettes, seahorses on skewers, iguana tails, dung beetles and silk worms on a stick, by way of fried sparrows, grilled snake and turkey vulture schnitzels...

4 comments:

swissmiss said...

Yuck! I thought the Scandinavian love of lutefisk was bad. Ewwww!!

Cathy_of_Alex said...

Fried monkey brains anyone?

Vincenzo said...

:Þ~~

noni said...

www.beijingfastfood.blogspot.com