Censored in China

I am now in Suzhou and I still can't view my blog. Smarda is here with me at the internet cafe so I will be brief. In my next post I will go back and take you through our last day in Beijing and the first couple here in Suzhou. But first, lets go through the foods I have eaten. Our tour guide in Beijing said that the chinese will eat anything that flies except a boeing and anything with four legs except a table. Meant to be humorous, it is closer to the truth than you realize as I list out the foods I have had in 3 days of Suzhou...

Wanton Soup, Xiaolong Bao (soupy buns), Pig Thigh, Cow Tongue, Chinese vegetables with no english names, Fish, Chicken Tofu, Roast Duck, Mushrooms (wood ears), Blood Soup, Fried Chicken, Crystal Shrimp, Sardine type fish, Rye bread filled with vegetables, Warter mellon (red and yellow), Lotus Root stuffed with sweet rice, Turnips, Snails (fresh and salt water), Silver fish, Fresh water fish, chicken soup, meat & brown hardboiled eggs, chinese zuchinni, chicken feet, Pig stomach, lima beans, jelly fish, sauteed enochi mushroom, cowfu (braised gluten), dead shrimp, scallops, chinese eggplant, beef, harvest platter, pickeled vegetables, tofu w/ crab meat, gao - sticky rice cake, mushroom soup, eel

So far the only food I outright refused to eat was drunken shrimp which are fresh water shrimp put into a wine sauce. The catch is that they are put in the wine alive and drink themselves to death. However, you see them moving in the bowl. Some people enjoy eating these because they like the jump on their tongue. And some that appear dead still have a last sump in them when you bite down. Proper technique is to chomp their head off first. Then while it has been murdered in your mouth, squeeze the meat out of the shrimp and spit the shell out.

I hope to be in an internet cafe again on Friday when I will go into detail about my 2 coming out parties...