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Snacks

June 2nd, 2004 by Roy Berman		 Mutantfrog


Treats in a Beijing market.
March 6 2004

I’ve done a closeup as well so you can clearly see the seahorses. There was another stall later on that had actual whole starfish on a stick as a snack food, one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen. When I tried to take a picture the stall owner blocked my shot, so I just went on.

Interestingly there are two different kinds of similar food stalls on this street in the market. One is like this, with a variety of meats and … things that you could charitably call meat. The other is stalls run by Uyghur, the Muslim minority of the Western Xinjiang province of China. As muslims they would never eat or sell something as un-halal as a seahorse. I can’t say I blame them.

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    • 4 Responses to 'Snacks'

    1. ro mo blog Says:
      March 23rd, 2005 at 5:25 pm

      Bizarre cultural foods, AKA we are what we eat

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    3. romoblog » Blog Archive » Bizarre cultural foods, AKA we are what we eat Says:
      November 13th, 2005 at 11:27 am

      [...] I was checking out Mutant Frog Travelogue and found a post about some fascinating Chinese delicacies: scorpion, starfish and seahorse snacks. Reading it made me simultaneously cringe and ponder, “What would that taste like?” I’ll have to find out for myself. This is one of those things I would be willing to do when I launch my “pay me to travel and blog” phase of this blog. Need some more pictures for proof? I found more references here | here | here | here | here [...]

    4. Laura Says:
      September 24th, 2006 at 9:26 pm

      This is absolutely discusting!! That’s the most horrifying thing I’ve ever seen!! Seahorses are my favoritw animals and I can’t believe this is what is happening to them!