Chinese people are known for eating weird foods, such as eggs baked out of children’s pee, scorpions, fried spider, chicken eggs that are hatched halfway, duck heads, tofu that smells like diarrhea, monkey brains, and even cows’ and sheep’s wiener. Chinese people are decomposers of animals. Me being a person that does not try anomalies does not have the experience of eating exotic food that I do not like. However, me being Chinese does somewhat mean that there are Chinese exotic foods that I like.
Chicken fingers is one of my favorite Chinese dishes. Although it might not seem like an exotic dish, since most readers reading this is Chinese, it is a very weird and exotic dish to the world. It is rubber bands, giving the dish chewiness. The sour and savor sauce make it slurpy like noodles. This is absolutely one of my favorites.
Also, an interesting thought: why are chicken fingers called “chicken fingers”, despite the fact that they are actually the feet of chickens. Isn’t chicken fingers just the tip of chicken tenders? In fact, chicken fingers should be called as “chicken foot fingers.” BIG BRAIN
However, there was this experience when I tried an exotic food that I did not like at all (Just remembered :)). There was this time when I went on a vacation to Guangzhou. My friends decided to go to get barbecue, which was great. We were enjoying our time, until some weird person decided to order friend grasshoppers. I was seriously considering on whether I should try it or not, but then decided to try it. When I first put it in my mouth, it was crispy like fried chicken, and tasted pretty good. However, after chewing it for 10 seconds, the grasshopper started to have a fishy smell. The fried grasshoppers turned into a dead fish in an abandoned fish market. It was truly an awful experience that I had, and I would never ever try it again.
Beautiful.
A short description going from the exotic taste of the Chinese to chicken fingers, which you like according to your writing.
Is the grasshoppers part off topic to your title “Chicken Foot Fingers”? You can perhaps change your title to “Chinese exotic dishes: Chicken foot fingers and fried grasshoppers”(something like that).
As for the ending “Beautiful.”, I can’t seem to understand what you mean by that. Did you want to say that the chicken claws tasted well, or maybe sarcasm to the idea of eating grasshoppers? I cannot tell if it is a clarity issue or something else.
I might share the link to this blog post with other Chinese students in the future so they can get an idea bout perspective thanks to this important line: “Although it might not seem like an exotic dish, since most readers reading this is Chinese, it is a very weird and exotic dish to the world.” (But do pay attention to the obvious grammar error there 😉 )
Even after over 20 years here, it’s still a complete mystery to me why anybody would want to eat chicken’s claws.
I ate grasshoppers once too. The ones I had were smaller than those in your picture and were like spicy crisps. Turns out I’m allergic to them so I shan’t be eating them again.
Yeah you can still edit other people’s comments dr terret