04-13-2006, 03:48 PM
Do you remember that scene in Indiana Jones where everyone is eating monkey brains and eyeball soup? Well, it's not like that, but the food is freakin' phenomenal. If there's one thing you can do in Beijing, it's eat like an emperor, and on very few yuan a day.
The only thing that Beijing lacks is beef. American beef is cornfed and shot plump full of steriods and such, which makes it tastier and more tender. Chinese beef is tough and not nearly as fatty. Chinese cows work for a living. There was this huge controversy with McD's when it tried to import cornfed beef. Now they have special farms in China just so you can enjoy your big mac in Tiananmen.
On the flip side, Chinese chicken is really good. If you're used to American chicken, which has been factory farmed to nuggets, you're in for a real treat. Even the KFC chicken in China is tastier, or so I'm told.
The pork is super fresh, sometimes you can even hear it being slaughtered out back. The fish - my god - fish in China is un-freakin-beleiveable. If there's one thing the Chinese can really cook, it's fish. And the experience of real Peking duck in Peking (Beijing) is absolutely orgasmic.
But if you're Greg and you're travelling with me, nevermind all that, all you're going to get is scorpions.
The only thing that Beijing lacks is beef. American beef is cornfed and shot plump full of steriods and such, which makes it tastier and more tender. Chinese beef is tough and not nearly as fatty. Chinese cows work for a living. There was this huge controversy with McD's when it tried to import cornfed beef. Now they have special farms in China just so you can enjoy your big mac in Tiananmen.
On the flip side, Chinese chicken is really good. If you're used to American chicken, which has been factory farmed to nuggets, you're in for a real treat. Even the KFC chicken in China is tastier, or so I'm told.
The pork is super fresh, sometimes you can even hear it being slaughtered out back. The fish - my god - fish in China is un-freakin-beleiveable. If there's one thing the Chinese can really cook, it's fish. And the experience of real Peking duck in Peking (Beijing) is absolutely orgasmic.
But if you're Greg and you're travelling with me, nevermind all that, all you're going to get is scorpions.
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