Strange food on a Chinese market

A colorful food market in Lijiang, China

For a photographer who likes good food, Chinese markets are the places to be.

But - and one should never forget that - foreign cultures have foreign habits. They might eat things we usually do not eat. On Chinese food markets one should no be embraced to rats, cats, dogs, singing birds, frogs, and other living creatures either ready to eat or still alive to be prepared fresh. There is a saying about Chinese food that seems to hot the point: In China they eat everything having four legs apart from the table and everything that flies apart from the airplane. Well visiting a Chinese food market one gets the impression that this is very true.

But still eating in a Chinese restaurant is an adventure not to be compared to what the Chinese restaurants in the western world serve. I never liked to know exactly how it was called, what I found on the table. As long as it tasted well it was OK with me. Only with fish I was rather reluctant: the water in the rivers in China a so polluted that eating fish from those rivers seemed to me be so unhealthy that I either played the vegetarian or ate meat only. But never ask me what meat it was. It just tasted wonderful …

Have a nice day!