I've
become obsessed with food and can't stop thinking about it. I wake up
hungry, but don't eat anything until lunchtime. At lunch we'll either
go for a McDonald's (which probably isn't a real McDonald's –
everything is fake here) or for Chinese food. Chinese food here means
lots of fat and lard. I had cabbage last night, which was cooked in
lard. I had pork that had a 3:1 fat to meat ratio. Rice is safe, but
the water they wash it in isn't. They had a real problem over here a
while back with fake baby milk formula. A lot of babies died and now
it's even illegal to import baby milk from Hong Kong to China –
You're limited to how much you can bring over, much like you are in
the Western world with cigarettes or alcohol, but this is because the
Chinese are desperate for baby milk formula that isn't harmful and (I
believe) the Chinese government want to crack down on illegal sales
of the good stuff. Pretty messed up, eh.
For
dinner most of this week and last I've had Chinese food, which
despite the above sounding like it's horrendous, is the safest bet
really. The worst I've experienced is when the restaurants attempt to
make Western food: Spaghetti Bolognaise swimming in grease or a club
sandwich with florescent pink ham that would probably glow in the
dark (I ended up with two slices of toast that time after taking out
the tomatoes because of the chemicals they spray them with, the eggs
because of the carcinogenics they inject to make the yolks yellow and
the aforementioned nuclear ham).
Each
time I've come back here over the last few years, the food has gotten
marginally better though. There's even a new restaurant/bar called
“JR's” which has not-too-bad food. It also had pictures of London
dotted around (which was nice) and a Christmas tree in the corner
(which was even nicer).
Anyway,
off the the market in Shenzen tomorrow morning before heading back to
Honkers for the National Holiday.
Almost
there...
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