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Post by julianna on Aug 5, 2015 14:00:32 GMT -5
Just a few pictures from China I thought you might like to see. These are some of the weirdest food for sale at the market. Spiders, centipedes, silk worms, beatle bugs, snake etc.
Climbing the great wall of China. It was a rainy day.
Above are the terracotta soldiers. They found 500 pits containing approx. 3,000 soldiers in each and are currently putting them back together. What a sight to see.
The amazing forbidden city which is more like a huge fort made from stone. It housed anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 people at any given time.
The above is their way of saying they are cheap on toilet paper. Did you know that there are very few toilets in China. The women squat and do their jobs into a small urinal that is on the floor. That was the worst part... and nothing to hold onto... Can you imagine how many people have fallen in those holes?? lol
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Aug 5, 2015 14:15:18 GMT -5
Post by aaron on Aug 5, 2015 14:15:18 GMT -5
Wow, great pictures! Thanks for sharing! I will pass on eating at that market thank you
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Post by easttex on Aug 5, 2015 14:27:43 GMT -5
I saw some of the terra cotta soldiers in a Denver museum years ago. Must have been something to see them all like that. If you're going to eat meat, why not spiders and beetles and snake? Spare a cow, eat a centipede! Easy for me to say. As a vegetarian I would not eat anything out of those trays even if they didn't give me the heebie-jeebies. So, were they saying "one square of t-paper per customer"? I'm afraid I'm getting a little too on in years to squat and get up gracefully with no rail. Scratch China from my travels.
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Aug 5, 2015 20:47:20 GMT -5
Post by Jan and Shah on Aug 5, 2015 20:47:20 GMT -5
Nearly spat out my Diet Coke when I saw the first picture. I went to India many years ago and, like China, they had a lot of squatting toilets. Of course I am much older these days and would probably end up falling into one - not a pleasant thought. Thanks for the photos Juliana. Glad you had a good time.
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Aug 5, 2015 22:25:03 GMT -5
Post by aaron on Aug 5, 2015 22:25:03 GMT -5
If you're going to eat meat, why not spiders and beetles and snake? Spare a cow, eat a centipede! Easy for me to say. As a vegetarian I would not eat anything out of those trays even if they didn't give me the heebie-jeebies. You make a good point, Easttex. Alas, the idea of eating those little buggers is not a tempting one at all
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Aug 6, 2015 2:47:07 GMT -5
Post by biteybird on Aug 6, 2015 2:47:07 GMT -5
Julianna, they are fantastic photos! I'd love to go to China "one day" (translation: when I win Tattslotto). The English translation about the toilet paper is funny and puts me in mind of a website I used to look at - www.engrish.com which used to have me laughing for days on end (I even bought one of their coffee table books as a gift for a Chinese friend and he thought it was hilarious).
Squatting toilets - hmmm, no wonder the thighs of the Chinese always look so great. I don't think I'd do so well on those toilets either.
Aaron, we need to send our quakers to China for a feed...they would be in gourmand heaven.
Jan, I have only one query for you...diet coke? What, no wine?
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Post by Jan and Shah on Aug 6, 2015 4:03:43 GMT -5
No Biteybird, they frown on us if we drink wine at our desks - although I could do with a vat of it each day I will check out that website you mention.
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Post by aaron on Aug 6, 2015 13:04:06 GMT -5
Haha, something tells me Cupcake would not want anything to do with eating a spider that's nearly her size, but maybe I'm wrong!
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Post by julianna on Aug 6, 2015 14:08:37 GMT -5
ha ha ha ha ha.. I love coming this site... always make me laugh and brighten up any day.
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Aug 6, 2015 19:10:25 GMT -5
Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Aug 6, 2015 19:10:25 GMT -5
Julianna, I want to know if YOU tried any of those delicacies in the first picture?
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Aug 6, 2015 19:12:43 GMT -5
No Biteybird, they frown on us if we drink wine at our desks - although I could do with a vat of it each day I will check out that website you mention. Gosh, Jan, this made me spit out MY drink from laughing so loudly Sheesh what kinda job do you have that you can't drink at work? LOL
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Post by biteybird on Aug 7, 2015 2:41:13 GMT -5
Jan, my NEXT question is...they let you check the QP Forum at work? I can't do it at school, the Victorian nanny state blocks it. On the subject of drinking, I've often contemplated installing a false wall at the back of my classroom, with integrated remote controlled James-Bond-style mini-bar! I'm sure the other staff would know something's up though, as I'd look more relaxed than usual...
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Aug 9, 2015 15:24:00 GMT -5
Post by julianna on Aug 9, 2015 15:24:00 GMT -5
Our cruise director highly recommended that we do not try any food sold on the street... unless we wanted to spend a few days in bed like others already had. No... I did not eat any of it. I did not mention before that I actually saw one of the servers... pull out her fly swatter and killed something that had landed on the squid. OMG... she actually flicked off the bug and put the fly swatter away and left the food there for sale. Now... would anyone eat off those carts after seeing that?
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Aug 9, 2015 16:31:41 GMT -5
Post by easttex on Aug 9, 2015 16:31:41 GMT -5
If your culinary interests extend to things like spiders and centipedes, is a squashed fly too much of a stretch? Or would that push it into revolting territory?
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Post by Jan and Shah on Aug 9, 2015 16:41:25 GMT -5
Biteybird, yep, I check the forum and Facebook at work - lucky me. Don't know if you ever saw the Seinfeld episode where George had arranged a little hidey hole under his desk. I would love to have something like that.
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