Re: ramblinginsomniac “What were you shooting in China? Least favorite meal?”

Answer: Short answer: anything and everything. I’ll elaborate in more detail later since someone else asked a similar question.

OKAY, here’s the fun part. Least favorite meal in China? Actually that’s a whole other entry that’s coming up (this vegetarian place in Dali where I got sick) but I’ll post my least liked dishes up until Kunming. Interesting how the least yummy dishes also don’t photograph well. Connection?

1. Some cold noodle dish my friend got here. My knife cut noodles were so bad I didn’t even take a photo of it. Hers was just as bad, but visually more appealing. Way too salty!
2 and 3. By all accounts, these two should have been delicious, but they were just wayyy too greasy. #2 looked like brains and #3 was impossible to eat with chopsticks.
4. Okay, I know this is an expensive restaurant ($200 USD per person) but wtf dish is this? In the eight courses this was third. Dried fish and a pancake. OOOk.
5. Same restaurant as #4, course number five. Too many hot peppers and sauce and not enough abalone. Did I mention too many hot peppers?
6. I’m not even sure what this appetizer was. It tasted just like it looks. Disgusting.
7. Too much sauce on the fish. I’m sure it would’ve been tasty but I couldn’t get at any of the meat without a gallon of sauce drenched all over it. Also, sweet & sour? really?
8. This black chicken soup was way too oily and msg-y. Also, the chicken was overcooked.
9. Some kind of mashed potatoes and peppers. Consistency was like wet toilet paper.
10. I had high hopes for this since I pretty much love anything wrapped in bamboo leaves but this was disgusting. I remember discretely trying to spit it out into a napkin.

This was fun :]