I can’t call myself a vegetarian. One, because I as a Sichuan cook sometimes have to eat my own, I have to say excellent, Gong Bao Chicken, and two because I don’t want to pigeonhole myself. It’s bad for the digestion.
All I can say is, I’ve eaten very little meat since 1988. By an amazing coincidence, that was the year I arrived in China.
I just think food should look attractive as well as taste good. And the photo above … I don’t know. Intended to entice people into the restaurant it had the opposite effect on me. I can’t stand being stared at while I’m eating and especially not by the food.
Now cabbage, on the other hand, that’s a beautiful bird.
i had a similar problem when i was the 1st time in hong kong and later in china. many dishes don’t look good and as a western my mind said:”no, you can’t eat that”. but now i changed to , first try than decide and i live good with this way. last week in china i ate many things again, which i wouldn’t have eaten when i was here the first time in 2002.
And btw, you can turn the plate ,with the chickenhead on it. So it won’t stare at you when you eat the rest of its body
Mmm. You know come to think of it, it’s not about China. My mother used to suck the brains out of the heads of staring cod (boiled though) – put me off fish for life.
No, it’s more the old adage: if you’re not prepared to bash it to death with thine own hands, you shouldn’t eat it.
Imagine strangling a 3 tonne ox?
So the thing with the head is probably that it makes it look so very much more than necessary like a CORPSE?
I feel sorry for the little bastards you know. Their lives aren’t fun. And how much better off wouldn’t we be without the dairy business?
Just google it and you’ll see. Cutting of rainforest, deforestation in general, desertation, a lot of it is to accommodate idiotically staring cows. Naw, cabbage I say. Because at the same time I didn’t much feel like eating meat anymore, I also discovered the world of flavours. Cabbage fried with some chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, spring onions and a sprinkling of vinegar? Di-bloody-vine!
got your point. and i discovered the world of flavours too in china. In germany, and i believe in the western world, is getting a “standard taste” of everything. ( the famous story that kids don’t like to eat strwberrys because it doesn’t taste like the strawberry yoghurt they eat every day from the supermarket.
I am happy that i choose china for my place to live
Just remember ah-Sin, what goes in, always come out (albeit in a reprocessed form).
I wonder how things would have turned out if you were say born blind?
Would you feel the same way about such foods?I guess you could always feel the chcickens face if you were blind. But then you might perhaps mistake it for something else other than a chicken
What, you mean like a penis?
Excellent point! I think.
Penis doesn’t have an eye. No, hold on… All right, I am wrong.
Ciao!