Recently, Italian police seized a batch of "unfit for human consumption" food - preserved eggs in a Chinese shop. This kind of special food, which is very common in China, is not recognized abroad. Let's get to know it.
The store is located in misterbianco, Catania Province, Sicily. Police seized a total of 800 eggs, including preserved eggs and preserved duck eggs. Police said that although the eggs are special food in China, they are banned in Italy and the source is unknown. Two Chinese were also reported to the health authorities for disposal.
Songhua egg, as a delicious food that Chinese people have loved for centuries, its amber like appearance, crystal clear, special taste and unique taste are even more irresistible.
However, it is so delicious that it has been rated as one of the most disgusting 'delicacies' in the world by CNN and many other media in the United States. Crooked nuts also call Songhua egg' devil egg ',' century egg 'or' thousand and year egg '.
Even the man at the top of the food chain, who dares to eat anything, master Bei, the host of survival in the wilderness, trembles in front of the egg.
The Chinese food that makes the crooked nuts look confused
Chinese cuisine is broad and profound, but there are many delicious foreigners who may not be able to get it. Many Chinese dishes that we think are very normal are very 'exotic' in the eyes of foreigners.
Tofu milk: it's said that it smells good and tastes good?
Two days ago, a Chinese mother-in-law let a foreign son-in-law eat Wotou dipped in tofu milk.
Ms. Yang's mother, a British Chinese, is a "typical old Beijing". Recently, she was picked up by her daughter to live in the UK. In her spare time, she likes to order authentic Chinese snacks. Two days ago, she steamed a pot of wowowotou with honey dates, coated it with bean curd, and expectantly handed it to her foreign son-in-law.
Under the persuasion of his wife and mother-in-law, the foreign son-in-law tasted it, but it made his intestines almost blue, and the ferocious son-in-law's heart was miserable with convulsions;
In fact, many foreigners simply can't understand the stinky tofu, tofu milk, which in our view 'smell stinky, eat fragrant' food, in their view, smell stinky, eat more stinky.
Bacon: take these animal stumps away from the balcony!
Chinese people have the habit of pickling bacon on New Year's day, but Ms. Li, who has lived in the United States for many years, has been in trouble. Two days after the cured chicken, cured duck and sausage came out, Ms. Li's family constantly had neighbors come to complain and asked her to remove these animal stumps.
How can a good preserved meat become a remnant of an animal? Ms. Li argued with her neighbor and was in a stalemate. Finally, the neighbor called the police. After being warned and persuaded by the police, Ms. Li reluctantly removed the preserved meat.
Animal viscera and head organs: EMM?
Fat intestines, chicken hearts, duck gizzards, tripe, duck head, fish head, rabbit head, pig ears, duck neck & hellip; & hellip; these are very popular in China, but in the eyes of most Westerners, they are unacceptable in any case.
The taste of animal viscera is too peculiar, too strong and unhygienic, and it is impossible to judge which organ to eat from its appearance. The animal's head is more bone and less meat, so it makes me feel flustered.
Chicken feet: tell me where to start?
Chicken feet in China will be used in various ways to make crisp and delicious dishes, snacks, but Westerners can not understand the Chinese obsession with chicken feet. In their view, the animal's paws not only often 'intimate contact' with the ground, but also frightening like eating human hands.
In a group of foreigners eating strange Chinese food, the expression of the two crooked nuts after eating chicken feet is like this & hellip; & hellip;
Others say: 'it's not food. 'well, I can feel that my heart is broken.
Bird's Nest: isn't it swallow's saliva?
The bird's nest, which is listed as the top nutrition in China, is also incomprehensible to foreign friends.
In an article introducing China's tonic marketing industry, the mirror expressed the confusion of most foreigners about bird's Nest: isn't bird's nest the saliva of swift? Why is it praised by Chinese people?
In fact, foreigners do not eat bird's nest, not only because of cultural differences, swallows are more common in Southeast Asia, other places have little research on swallows, so naturally they seldom eat bird's nest.
Hard core foreigners who love exotic Chinese food
Most foreigners can't accept the above, but it can't be ruled out that some 'hard core' foreigners not only love to eat 'exotic' Chinese food, but also can eat it.
Xiao'an, a French cook, has created a new style of stinky tofu. Xiao'an has opened a regular restaurant in China. Its signature dish is stinky tofu cream pasta. Stinky tofu is fully mixed with cream sauce. Add noodles that are moderately hard and soft, and take the juice out of the pot. A combination of Chinese and Western stinky tofu cream pasta is ready.
This was originally a classic French dish. Xiao an tried to replace the European Stinky Cheese with stinky tofu, but he didn't expect a different flavor. 'I think stinky tofu stinks on the outside, but it smells of milk on the inside. 'said xiao'an.
Stinky tofu has also captured some Malaysian food. There is a "super stinky tofu" in Jiadong satellite city, Kuala Lumpur. The shopkeeper integrates the characteristics of Malaysian food into it to produce stinky tofu that is acceptable to all ethnic groups and belongs to Malaysian taste. Special flavors include cheese, Thai chutney, Italian, United, American ketchup and rojak. It seems to be a strange match, but it is very popular with Malaysian diners.
Jeo norvill is an Englishman who is curious about Chinese food culture. Although he has only been in Chengdu for two months, he has traveled all over the streets of Chengdu to explore the most authentic Chengdu food. He even has the courage to try some dishes that are not accepted by many foreign friends, such as rabbit head and viscera. When it comes to hot pot in Chengdu, he says his favorite side dish is naohua.
LAN LAN, a mixed race girl from Iran and Canada, once studied in China, but now she stays in China for development. She is not only a "grade 10 scholar" in Chinese, but also a "grade 10 scholar" in Chinese cuisine. She loves not only boiled fish, Dongpo meat and fish flavored shredded pork, but also cicada pupae and stinky tofu, which are called "dark ingredients" by netizens. She said with a smile, "since I came to China, I have gained more than 20 jin, because there are so many delicious things in China. '
Chinese food is well-known in the world and well received. However, due to the cultural differences between China and the west, some Chinese people's favorite food is a nightmare for foreigners.
Nowadays, Chinese food has integrated Chinese and Western cooking skills in the process of going overseas, taking in the local atmosphere, making some foreigners begin to accept 'exotic' Chinese food such as stinky tofu.
It's easy to go out, but difficult to go in. In the process of going out, we need to seek resonance and recognition. Only by innovating the way of communication, can Chinese food culture really go out.