dancingupastorm: Guang Zhou Pt 2, Hold your Stomachs

Ok so, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, this was the only ENGRISH i managed to find!~!

I dont even think it's that bad.

You will find many of these eateries serving noodles behind a glass. Unlike local hawker centers, you have to pay at a designated cashier, collect a receipt and then pass it to this girl. troublesome.

Xiao Long Bao - i would eat Singapore's ones any time, over this.

There a quite a number of these people selling their local items such as raisins and that bread thingy. I cant remember where they are from exactly..somewhere from the north, maybe from Tibet!?!?!

Damn, wish i could remember.

Shangxia Jiu Lu Pedestrian Street. GZ is a very modernized city. Everywhere you go, there are huge shopping centers. Mainly filled with 100 shops selling the same thing.

Their durians are only SGD2 a piece and they are monolithic compared to the size of the durians found here.

Your random roadside butcher...

WAIT A MINUTE...

random???

Let's zoom in.

Ladies and Gentleman, you've heard of it, but have you ever seen it??

That's right, it's DOG MEAT. the cheapest one on the table too.

This butcher was somewhere around our hotel and we saw it on the first day of our trip there. Surfing around on the Internet, many sites were recommending QingPing Market for a taste of some 'REAL' Guang Zhou Culture. i'm not sure if we ever made it to Qing Ping, or if we went to the wrong area, but we saw some interesting things anyway...

if you look a little closer at the picture, you will see that 3 animals have their head facing up, while 1 has its head facing down.

You will also notice that 3 of them have a slightly brownish tinge to their body while the other 1 is a milky pink

the milky pink ones are actually goats, or maybe they are lambs. Ultimately they become mutton - which i do not eat.

Which means, the other 3 bodies are....DEAD DOGS.

So if you remember, i left off my last post asking you to guess what this was. I must say the 'feet' were a DEAD GIVEAWAY.

i stumbled across this eatery. These pieces of meat were hanging at the window like how char siew and chicken are hung at the hawker center but their heads were chopped off. There was a sign which said, "this is our specialty". they never really said what it was and i thought it was pork at first because...culture shock maybe.

and it took me a long time to finally believe, that it was once again, DOG MEAT.

THEY ARE PAWS. LOOK AT THE PAWS.