The Most Unusual Foods that Only Exist in China

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The Most Unusual Foods that Only Exist in China
When is food not food? Well, when they look like any of these. China is a huge country with a deep
culture that dates back thousands of years. And apparently, part of that culture is eating anything and
everything. China’s traditional cuisine is filled with the weird and the wonderful, ones that you’ll never
see on a western dinner plate.
Why would someone intentionally make a food item rotten before you eat it? Find out the answer by
sticking till the end. Here are the most unusual foods that only exist in China.

Number 10. Rabbit Heads
We’ve all heard that a rabbit’s foot is lucky, and maybe that’s because this is the only rabbit body part
yet to be eaten in Chinese food markets. All else appears to be fair game as far as food goes. Even down
to serving up actual rabbit heads as a tasty snack. Believe it or not, these gruesome decapitated snacks
are now a rare delicacy in the food markets of China. There was once a time you could find these dotted
all over the streets of Beijing food stalls, but today, cooked rabbit head can be found mainly in the
southwestern city of Chengdu where these so-called ‘treats’ are a specialty.
Because severed rabbit head on a stick isn’t quite gross enough as it is, street cooks in Chengdu like to,
quite literally, spice this snack up a little by marinating the heads in a choice of five spice powder or
either stewed in chili and Sichuan pepper. You’d assume stewing the rabbit heads in such strong stuff
was to disguise the revolting flavor, but it doesn’t look like there’s much meat to be eaten here in the
first place. The price for one greased-up chili rabbit head? About $1.25, pretty good deal if you ask me.

Number 9. Starfish on a Stick
For those of you who grew up watching SpongeBob, look away now as this will probably be the most
disturbing thing you’ll ever see. Of all the fish in the sea, the humble starfish is not exactly the first thing
that springs to mind when you picture a tasty seafood dish. Putting the adorable image of Patrick Starr
aside for a minute, real-life starfish don’t seem as if they’d be all that nice to eat.
If you’re traveling through the Northern parts of China though, expect to see lots of locals tucking into
some starfish on a stick. The street food stalls in Wangfujing’s night market in Beijing offer up skewered
starfish for just $3.75. And if you’ve ever wanted to know what they taste like? Well, according to crazy
travel foodies, they can range from creamy, salty, bitter, and crunchy. Nice. As for a more detailed
review, the FoodFunTravel blogger has previously described starfish innards as “a texture in between
toothpaste and ground beef.” Exactly like what I imagined a peppermint burger would be.

Number 8. Grilled Bee Pupa
We’re not quite sure what it is with Chinese cuisine and insects, but it seems to us that their motto is “if
it flies, you can eat it,” because another disgusting food item on our list is deeply fried bees or, to be
more specific, bee pupae.

Pupae are the stage in between larvae and adulthood in insects, so essentially, this dish should be called
teenage bees in batter. Whether you want to sample deep-fried bee pupae in the form of skewered
snacks or in bowls of the stuff, food stalls in the Chinese province of Yunnan is the best place for them.
As odd as it might seem, battered bee pupae don’t taste half as bad as they look according to tourists
who have frequented the insect snack stalls. Since they are so heavily fried in batter during the cooking
process, the end result is fairly tasteless other than a salty flavor with a crispy texture. In other words,
quite similar to popcorn, but don’t expect to see these being served in your local cinema soon.

Number 7. Tuna Eyeballs
Say what you want about the oddities of Chinese cuisine, you can’t deny thay they’re resourceful. When
it comes to animal body parts, almost any leftovers are considered fair game, as evidenced by this
appetizing dish of tuna eyeballs. Second, only to perhaps animal genitals in the contest for ‘weirdest
leftover', we can make edible fish eyes seem to be a popular weird dish on the streets of Beijing, and
tuna eyeballs in particular are considered a delicacy in both China and Japan.
Tuna eyeballs are normally served on a bed of fish fat and severed muscles from around the eye, so for
both gross factor and value for money, an adventurous foodie tourist can really get their money’s worth.