See Food, Seafood!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to some more adventures in China. I went to the southern region, Guangzhou, this week. After checking into my hotel under the company name of "Rocker well", I met up with Jim, my counterpart from the US who is doing a short term assignment in Shanghai. A self proclaimed 'meat & potatoes' guy, I had to share some of the photos that he took at a sea food restaurant we went to one night this week. Fish moving around in a tank is enough to make him squirm, just wait till he feasted his eyes on our soon to be sustenance swimming around!

Now, to set the scene, this restaurant is huge and located on the river in Guangzhou. There are a hundred of fish tanks with different things in them and after you get sat at your table, you get up and walk over to the tanks and point to what you want to order and how you want it prepared. Doesn't get much fresher than that!

The front page of the menu alone was enough to send Jim into gross out mode. Probably shouldn't have taken him to the see food seafood restaurant : )

Wonder where they get the alligator from listed on the menu? Right here of course, head and all. Notice the fish heads on ice in the background... Yum!

I wish there was something in the background that could give you a perspective as to how big this fish actually was...enough to feed the entire state of Wyoming. Glad he swam over for a smile, glub glub.

Calamari anyone? A very large squid, ripe for the picking, using your hands of course.

So what did we wind up choosing? Well, my favorite thing was a bamboo basket (which you don't eat silly goose!) which held shrimp, garlic, green peppers, and black tea, all of which was fried together - you don't eat the tea either by the way! It was very sweet and savory all at once. And we got my fav scallops with garlic and vermicelli, which our very cute sales engineer loves also.

And Jim, he got pork and fried rice. I think he did try a shrimp though! Even I was grossed out by the other things they had there....jars of snakes! All coiled up soaking a a red liquid. Vomit! And then in a separate jar, just the snake heads.

Oh well, just another week in China. Happy eating!