A couple of years ago, my parents took my kids to the Chinese New Year in downtown San Francisco. My kids like the Chinese food we eat here, so they were expecting the same in Frisco. Boy were they surprised to find out that native Chinese, even in America, eat chicken feet, shrimp, not deveined, and still sporting the head, whole fish, complete with eyeballs, eel, etc... they tried it, but it took us like 2 months to get them to eat chinese food here again and convince them that it wasn't fish heads or chicken feet. My parents absolutely love it, though.
True, there are some bizarre foods (I personally don't eat them unless someone ordered it) but that's just one small part of the spectrum. There's lots of great authentic food that includes pork, beef, chicken, seafood, dumplings, and duck.
I have a friend that came here from China about 25 years ago. He was telling me that in China they eat dog and rat. It is pretty much a staple food to them, like beef and chicken are to us. I just can't fathom that people could eat such things, but then he reminded me about the fact that they don't use pesticides, so everything would be natural. The rat was raised to be eaten, unlike here where it is a pest, and nasty. I don't care what he says though, I'm not eating any rat!! The guy I'm speaking of is the one my parents and kids went to the Chinese New Year with and he was ordering all the food.
Depends on which part of China he came from. If it's rural or the Asian ghettos, might be reasonable. Not a lot of money to eat other things with. They eat pigeons too. Cheaper to raise mostly.
I'm not sure what part of china andy came from...his family didn't have much money. they all live here now, and doing pretty well. he works for a realty corp with my brother in frisco.
The typical Chinese-American story right there. Almost made my app essay another cliche save for a little wrinkle in it (really the illegitimate descendants of a Portuguese merchant-sailor and a Chinese woman and it gets more complicated after that).
