I was desperate for a snack. I bought some candies (no English on them of course). They looked like dried fruit covered with sugar. Yum! Such fine powdery sugar...wait...no...salt....PTOOEEY. Score one for Team Disgusting Foods. On to another store. Crackers! Skip the ones with shrimp and onions on them, perfect...green cover plain crackers. Mmmm...savory....crunchy...fishy?!...BLUCK...Seaweed flavor!!! Score two for Team Disgusting Flavors. OK, ice cream. Dodge the pea flavored ice cream bar clearly labeled with peas. Chocolate covered vanilla...perfect. Bite one...cold...chocolaty...purple?...TARO?! Struck out by Team Disgusting Flavors. I grabbed some water and went to bed.
(Strange flavors are not only to be found in China, these are Thai Lays potato chips and Hong Kong cheese that was found in the aisle beside the Abalone flavored peanuts)
(Strange flavors are not only to be found in China, these are Thai Lays potato chips and Hong Kong cheese that was found in the aisle beside the Abalone flavored peanuts)
If you are not allergic to peanuts, do try the bagged Lao Nai Nai (Old grandma) peanuts! Or the flavored Qia Qia sunflower seeds. They are probably more to the liking of Americans as well as Chinese.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, there are all kinds of weird-tasting food items in China that even a lot of Chinese people find them impossible to eat... For the sake of your readers' appetite, I would not name them here...
ReplyDeleteI've heard about the "impossibilities." Pass, pass, pass. G.
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