{"id":4890,"date":"2010-03-21T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2010-03-21T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:08:06","slug":"authentic-chinese-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/authentic-chinese-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Chinese food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Upon arrival at my hotel in Zhengzhou I was very hungry. I had a piece of bread for breakfast at 5 a.m., portions of a light, airline meal (which wasn’t good) on my first flight to Beijing, and nothing was offered on the flight from Beijing to Zhengzhou. I would have eaten in the Beijing airport<\/a>, but I couldn’t get Chinese Yuan out of the ATM in the airport as planned.<\/p>\n

So after checking into my hotel I went to the hotel’s restaurant hoping for some Sweet and Sour Pork or Kung Pao Chicken. I soon realized that authentic Chinese food is nothing like the Chinese food in the United States (or Japan for that matter).<\/p>\n

My choices were limited to things like pig’s knuckles, … <\/p>\n

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… chicken, with more body parts than I want to see on my plate,<\/p>\n

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crocodile (at least that’s what it says…),<\/p>\n

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camel hump???<\/p>\n

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sea bowel (I’m not a seafood fan, and bowel, of any kind, isn’t something I want to see on my plate so I passed on this one),<\/p>\n

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and the name “five year sentence” was enough to turn me off to this dish.<\/p>\n

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I could tell from the Chinese characters that this one had some kind of old chicken in it. But does anyone find a description like exploding, old, adopted mother appetizing?<\/p>\n

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I thought about ordering a plate of broccoli, sans the cow hoof. However, I can’t speak Chinese and no one at the hotel or restaurant could speak English or Japanese so I was worried that I would end up with a cow hoof, without the broccoli. <\/p>\n

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Like I said, I was hungry, but not hungry enough for a big turtle (or even a little one).<\/p>\n

At this point I knew it was going to be a long two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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