Monday, October 25, 2010

Mormon Crickets - Lunchables

Silk Worm Larve on the side. Fast Food Lunch in China is a cultural exchange program for westerners. We found some delicious oblong cantalope (crunchy) and decided to indulge in some fast food today. Fruit is so good here in China. This snack on a stick cost 1 yuan, about $.14 cents, each. Here is Dana, Jay and Joseph snackin...and loving it. It is the fruit currently in season and it is so crunchy good.

We have enjoyed having Tiffany and Joseph Lowe visit us for a week here in Jinan. They stayed at our house with the written permission of the Police Department, so they were legal.
Now this is it. We found these oh so interesting barbeque items in the fast food section of the outdoor market. Yes, Mormon Crickets who found their way to China...and ended up in the roasting oven and on the barbi. They go well with just a few of the adjacent roasted silk worm larve. Ya gotta try them. Actually, I still have to do that too, as we all passed on these because we were not that hungry at that particular time. We took a picture which was enough for us to remember to go back when were were starving. The early Utah pioneers probably should have thought this protein food source through a little more thoroughly, now don't ya think? This type of daily barbeque would have solved more than one problem for them.
There are lots of variety of drinks and ice cream bars here and they are very inexpensive and great tasting.

We were searching the area and fell upon some fast foods that were unique and looked oh so tasty. These are some more.... What are they? Guess on the ones you do not recognize in your comments.

Chinese Pizza wannabe...
Guess what this snack is...Little baby squid snack packs in glutinous rice ball packages...kind of like a complete Chinese Happy Meal.

These will make your mouth water if you look at them close up, so click on the photo and take a closer look.
Steamed Bread or Bouzi...are always delicious.

Whatever...you want, they have in fast food. These are a wide variety of items threaded on Chinese Barbeque sticks which are placed over some wood charcoal and roasted to taste....Yum, Yum.

These boiled snacks are everywhere at night for the late night date.
???? I don't know... Do you?

Shrimp on a stick, plus some tofu or bread on a stick for barbequing Chinese style.
Crawdads on a stick....Everything in China as far as fast food seems to be on a stick.

These little crabs are not yet on a stick but may be any minute. Good Luck Guys.

Chicken parts on a stick. These are edible and even palatable when they are warm. Chinese food is so good when you are hungry you know. Please comment so I know who is reading these rambling oppinionated remarks and real life original photos. Thanks.

6 comments:

beverly said...

I can't wait to try all the fast food they look so tasty. Especially the shrimp ones.Thanks for the blog.

Janae said...

Mmmmm. Delicious!

gdad said...

I miss good Chinese fast food!

SBrooks said...

Awesome! Always an adventure for you two! Love ya!

Tiffany said...

I remember when we saw those, yucko!!!
Thanks for the pictures, my battery died during that time so I did not have them until now.

Frank and Julie said...

Some of those foods looked kinda good and others I wouldn't touch! Thanks for the close up pictures. They were awesome.