Not sure about the Chinese comment though maybe the real rural food- like rotten tofu- is nasty.
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Weird, I visited my girlfriends family in the countryside once, and I thought the food is awesome, especially the tofu. I eat that shit nearly every day.
What were you doing in Shanghai?
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Short vacation- I live in Hiroshima and we have direct daily flights. I was with a friend married to a local and they took us to a pretty down and dirty Yunnan restaurant and everything was palatable- quite good really. It's ridiculous to generalize about Chinese cuisine, obviously, and there could be quite a bit of weird foodstuffs like dog or insects. Anyhow, the tofu I'm talking about I saw on Anthony Bourdain's show- it was covered in white fuzz but he said it was quite tasty. I shouldn't have said rotten- it's really just fermented or whatever.