chicken feet

the chinese love their chicken feet. i have been told by several people that i needed to try it, so finally my chinese teacher brought me a chicken foot to try. it was a pickled one, which is supposed to be pretty tasty.


i tried to eat a little bit of it but it was really hard for many reasons- of the little meat that there was, it was stringy, tough and hard to get at. the palm looked like it had the most meat on it but how are you supposed to eat a concave surface? if you'll notice, i took a little bite out of the tip of the thumb, hehe. i also ate some of the wrist.

after that i took a look at the little hand with finger nails and couldn't fathom eating it. it just looked too close to its natural form, and eerily, it even looked a bit human. i wasted that poor chicken's lil foot :(

i still contend though that the chinese have some of the worst snack ever. especially at the rest stops they have on the highways, your choices are like chicken feet and other pickled things, nasty little eggs, nasty little 'meat' sausages, chinese bread (which for some reason is ALWAYS sweet), nuts and yogurt. i've had them all, but i usually go for the last 2. they have a few western items, but there is always a strange twist to it. the oreos here come in like 50 different flavors (i accidentally got vanilla milkshake one time and it was gross) and the chips also come in strange flavors like tomato, meat bbq, prawn, crab and cheese, etc. the meat bbq ones aren't so bad ythough :)