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Sehr Gut!
Today we entered a bakery called: “Das Gute”. I don’t know if the ‘e’ is supposed to exist at the end there, but this is Hong Kong and anything that’s in the alphabet goes, whether it makes sense or not.
A few minutes later and I’m eating the lightest, fluffiest bun (slightly sweet), with a crater in the centre. The centre is filled with a bed of tuna topped with some fried fish, covered in a creamy onion sauce with cheese. Das ist Gut!
A sure fire way of becoming vegetarian, in fact: A sure fire way of never eating again.
We then embark on what can only be called: “The Dry Foods Expedition”. It is what Chinese people buy for their soups, stews, general meals and what nots. What you see is what you get: yes that really is a box of dried scorpions, yes that is a box of geckos with their skin stretched out on sticks and my that is a big bag of dead giant flies. The shops and stalls I came across smelled overpoweringly of dried herbs, dried fish and dried animals. My goodness they dry everything, such is the power of preservation.
I spy a crate of deer tails selling for $14 each, they’re stripped of hairs and look like little buns. Then there was the testicle stand, if I buy more than one I can barter for discounts. So do you like them spotty or nobbly? Can I tempt you with a discount for the more blemished ones?
Next was the ginseng and seafood stand. I am left standing for 55 minutes while my relatives decide on which fungus they want: “Take them all!” I cry in my head. I try to amuse myself by trying to spot as many things as possible, it’s amazing how things just don’t look the same without hydration. Shark fins, deer antlers, sea slugs (and boy were there a lot of slugs).
Suddenly, the recipe for pest control hit me: We can eat them all!
The author deems this not suitable for the faint of heart.
