Chinese cuisine !!! Bon Appetit !!!

Now let`s take a culinary break and see what delicacies you can expect when visiting China ;) (when visiting me in China - sounds even better :)

My top 5 of "I`m ready to eat it whenever wherever" :)

1. Xiaolongbao otherwise know as steamed BUNs ;)...there is one secret place in Shanghai...and buns are soo good there!!!

2. Hot pot or cook-it-yourself-experience :) You basically get a pot of regular or spicy (or both) soup and order raw ingredents that you dip into soup and cook as you eat...real fun & real tasty & real dangerous cause you always eat more than you want ;)

3. Seafood!!! no comment...yammm :)!!!!!



4. Street food! All sorts of meet/veggie/seafood barbecue!

5. Tea (in this picture LongJing tea) & water melon


Now let`s look at some delicacies that I find a bit more challenging to try ;)

Don`t ask me what that is... all I know - that`s seafood! Didn`t dare to try ;)

Now this one is called elephant nose! It was served raw... yet somehow I still prefer raw salmon ;)

Elephant noses in action :)))

Another mystic sea creature...haven`t tried yet :)))


Other "hot must-try" food items :)

Hairy crab! Cute crab prepared for winter ;) Real popular here in autumn season...actually still sold all around... even saw them sold alive in tax-free of Shanghai airport :))

Megabun...that`s how I call it :) Delicacy filled with gravy!

Fish,frogs, snakes, turtles... in a traditional Chinese restaurant you will see them alive (live interactive menu ;) and then pick... Still haven`t tried snakes & turtles

Zongzi - traditional food for Dragon boat festival in May. Look cool, but that`s the only cool thing about it to me ;)

Dumplings: all kind os shapaes, fillings, etc...

Smoked stuff (ducks, for example): haven`t figured out how to eat that stuff exactly, but sure looks impressive and seems to be very popular among locals!

The typical Chinese round table: every meal is like a feast and according to Chinese tradition it`s polite to leave some food as to show that is was good and you had enough...cause if you eat it all they might think it wasn`t enough and you are still hungry!

and...it`s important to feed the Gods, of course :)



And latest discovery in Shanghai is "ALL YOU CAN EAT & DRINK" offer in some restaurants!
There are some barbecue places for true meat lovers: for around 19 Euros (per person) you get unlimited amount of different kinds of meats and unlimited salad & dessert bar. Now this is real dangerous...cause the food keeps coming...and the food is good!
And there are many Japanese teppanyaki places offering ALL YOU CAN EAT & DRINK for 10to 20 Euros (depending on the restaurant) which includes all sorts of teppanyaki, sushi and yeah...sake, plum wine and other nice stuff :) Feast guaranteed ;)

See you for my next post ;) Hungry yet?:)