The information that the Chinese eat the meat of babies has already excited the minds of the public more than once. Hong Kong's monthly Next Magazine recently published an article revealing how dead babies and fetuses are the most prized delicacy among the Chinese. The article also described all the details of storing and preparing this “delicacy”

The reason for the article was the revelations of Liu's maid at a banquet of a Taiwanese businessman. Liu, who lives in Liaolin Province, said that dead bodies of babies, as well as fetuses obtained as a result of abortions, serve as a way for the Chinese to improve their health and beauty. The young human body, according to her, has much more beneficial properties than the placenta. However, such a delicacy is not available to everyone. Those without specific connections have to sign up on long lists waiting for a human body. Male embryos are considered the most valuable.

At the request of the magazine staff, Liu showed the place where the embryos are prepared. In front of astonished journalists, she cut the fetus into pieces and made soup from it.
“Don’t worry, it’s just meat, and nothing more than a highly developed animal,” she said during the process.

According to the customs of the region, the germs are fired in forges before being cooked. The Chinese's passion for cannibalism is terrifying. In 2000, in Guangxi province, police detained a group of smugglers transporting babies in a truck, the oldest of whom was 3 months old. The children were stuffed three or four into bags and were practically dying. Neither of them had a missing persons report from their parents. In 2004, a resident of the city of Shuangchengzi found a bag of dismembered babies in a landfill. The package contained 2 heads, 3 torsos, 4 arms and 6 legs. This and other terrifying information appears from time to time on the pages of publications and television screens in China.

To increase tolerance towards different peoples, it is useful to learn about their customs. About their national cuisine, for example. Are you already used to eating raw fish the Japanese way? We need to get used to eating premature babies the Chinese way.
It must be said that there was a great outcry on the Chinese Internet quite recently, as they tried to attribute the eating of children to the entire Guangdong province.
The Chinese eat human embryos, but in most cases, eating the placenta is healthy, they say. This is not the case in large cities, but it is practiced in small villages. The law in China has abolished many things, but they still continue in remote places, they also still use the brains of monkeys, and they cut them alive and eat them while they are screaming.
The Chinese government is trying to combat this phenomenon, as well as the publicity of this custom outside the country.
Despite the prohibitions that the government of the republic imposes on the content of web pages, the shocking ins and outs still penetrate the country's cordons.

The text and photographs translated below belong to the journalist Juan Treminio, he visited a family of cannibals, where he was told and shown all the cannibal cuisine in every detail.
The text and photos are given with large abbreviations, but the remaining part is STRICTLY PROHIBITED to be viewed by persons with a weakened psyche.

You need to have a psyche like the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to take a knife, stab a person, take out the entrails, boil them and eat them, - begins Juan Treminio, - a normal person under normal conditions would never think about eating his own kind.

I thought so too, until I visited a Chinese family of cannibals. That's right, the proud citizens of China still eat each other. More precisely, not exactly each other (I have not seen adults eating adults) - adults eat babies. Even more precisely - only girls.

I believe population policy is partly to blame here, because in China you can only have one child without persecution by the law.

Women are generally treated as second class, and every time a newborn girl appears in a poor family, the husband and wife are faced with a choice: either kill themselves, or kill the child, or sell the girl on the black market as food. But such a market exists in China.

When I was collecting material for the article, of course, I wondered what human meat tastes like. To stop bleeding from a small wound on your finger, you need to suck out the blood - it tastes salty.

Since blood is in almost every part of our body, I thought that human flesh was salty. However, this is not true. Cannibals from China claim: we taste like beef, in addition, the younger the person, the softer the meat.

The rest of the report is made in an illustrative style and is NOT INTENDED FOR PEOPLE WITH WEAK NERVES!
Juan Treminio tells how he visited a cannibal kitchen.

Chinese G., personal cook of one of the Chinese cannibals. Since 2002, he claims, he has prepared about 60-70 babies for the owner.

G. says that he doesn’t see anything indecent in cooking a child, because if you don’t eat it, the meat will be thrown away anyway, and why throw away good meat?

However, some Chinese cannibals prefer placenta rather than newborn children; it is more accessible and sells for only $10 ($10).

The photo above shows a ready-to-use placenta. The photo below shows the colorful box in which it is sold.

Ready placenta dish

And here is the family at dinner, it consists mainly of men, placenta soup is one of the most popular dishes among cannibals, in the soup it becomes softer and is easy to eat.

(Although in the top photo the fuckers are blurred out, the shape of the ear of the cannibal closest to us is clearly visible. It is typically pronounced Jewish. The Chinese are also not a homogeneous nation. In any nation there are always two nations - Jews and goyim.)
Other Chinese cannibals believe that the placenta is not nutritiously enough and add...

Add a small child when cooking.

The most popular method for a cook to kill food before cooking it is to:

This is to immerse the baby in a container of alcohol.
After the baby is dead, the cook makes a small cut to drain the blood.

Chef G. says that you need to cook wisely, that is, using the recommendations of Chinese medicine.

Completely prepared dish

Chinese man bites into meat

As for evidence for all of this, there is a lot of evidence on this issue, but linguistic differences, along with the characteristic Chinese suspicion of strangers, do present certain difficulties in collecting evidence. For this reason, we will limit our evidence to a Chinese source in English, the Hong Kong newspaper Eastern Express. All excerpts quoted are taken from a long article that appeared in the April 12, 1995 issue of the Eastern Express. A newspaper reporter visited several clinics in mainland China looking for aborted fetuses to eat and found them freely offered.

Quote from the Eastern Express: Reports that dead fetuses are used as a dietary supplement began circulating early last year with reports that doctors at clinics in Shenzhen were eating dead fetuses after performing abortions. Doctors defended their actions, arguing that the fetuses were beneficial for skin conditions and overall health.

Soon it was said in the city that doctors in the city recommended uterine fruits as a tonic. Cleaners at the clinic reportedly fought with each other over who could take home valuable human scraps. Last month, reporters from Eastern Express affiliate East Week traveled to Shenjiang to check out the rumors. On March 7, the reporter came to the Shenjiang State Women's and Children's Health Center and pretended to be sick and asked the doctor for a fetus. The doctor said that they had run out of them in their department and asked to come another time.

The next day the reporter came in during his lunch break. When the doctor finally emerged from the operating room, she was holding a glass bottle filled with thumb-sized embryos. The doctor said: “There are 10 fetuses here, all aborted this morning. You can take them. We are a public clinic and give them away for free.”...

The reporter found that fetuses currently sell for $10 each, but when supply is tight, the price could rise to $20. But this money is a pittance compared to the prices at private clinics, which reportedly make a lot of money from fetuses. The clinic on Bong Men Lao Street charges $300 for one embryo. The director of the clinic is a man about 60 years old. When he saw an ailing reporter, he offered him 9-month-old fetuses, which he claimed had the best healing properties. When a female doctor named Yang... from the Xing Hua Clinic was asked whether fetuses were edible, she heatedly declared, “Well, of course. They're even better than placenta. They can make your skin smoother, your body stronger, and they are good for your kidneys. When I was in the military hospital in Jiangti Province, I often brought fetuses home."

A Mr. Cheng from Hong Kong claims that he ate fetal soup for over six months. He is in his 40s and often travels to Shenjiang for business. Friends introduced him to fetuses. He says he met a number of professors and doctors at public hospitals who helped with the purchase of embryos. “I felt uneasy at first, but doctors told me that the substances contained in fetuses would help me get rid of my asthma. I started taking them, and gradually the asthma disappeared,” Cheng said...

Zou Kin, a 32-year-old woman with fine skin for her age, attributes her well-preserved appearance to a diet of fetuses. As a doctor at the Long Hu Clinic, Zou performed abortions on several hundred patients. She finds the fetuses to be very nutritious and claims she has eaten more than 100 in the last six months. She holds up a sample of the fetus in front of a reporter and explains the selection criteria. “Usually, people prefer the fetuses of young women; the best fetus to eat is the first-born boy. They will go to waste if we don't eat them. The women we abort don't want these fetuses. Besides, the embryos are already dead when we eat them. We don't perform abortions just to eat fetuses..."

Dr Warren Lee, president of the Hong Kong Nutrition Association, is aware of these unfortunate rumors. “Eating fetuses is a form of traditional Chinese medicine and has deep roots in Chinese folklore...” he says.

The Chinese also ate children in Russia (1918-1937)

In foreign film and newspaper chronicles of the times of the Russian Civil War, as well as in the memoirs of eyewitnesses of that time, there is a mention that in the restaurants of “Bolshevik Russia” they could offer dishes from freshly prepared... babies. This has always amazed me. I thought: slander, the machinations of ideological opponents of the communists. But after I read the article by the modern American publicist William Pierce “Shocking Differences” (see the collection Revisionist History: View from the Right. M., 2003; In the newspaper “Hidden” No. 1/18, 2003 there was a reprint entitled “We different, and this is forever!”) my opinion changed dramatically.

V. Pierce describes the gastronomic cannibalistic tastes of the Chinese and cites as confirmation of the above a photograph of a young Chinese devouring an aborted, freshly prepared late-term human fetus in a restaurant. I understood why the Western press, describing the horrors of the revolution and civil war, periodically mentioned roasted babies in the restaurants of “Bolshevik Russia.” The phenomenon took place! Unfortunately, there was no clarification necessary in such cases that these culinary preferences concern only the Chinese, since in China an aborted human fetus, especially one late in pregnancy, is considered a culinary delicacy.

And the fact that during the period of the revolution and civil war these dishes OPENLY appeared on the menu of some restaurants in “Bolshevik Russia” is explained by this. that 50,000 young Chinese served as punitive mercenaries in parts of the Cheka. Apparently, quite a few of them at that time were simply enriching themselves in Russia. The Chinese punitive units of the Cheka were significantly superior in their cruelty to representatives of any other nationality who were in the service of the new government. The leadership of the new government was openly satanic and criminal; At first, the Jewish-Bolsheviks even depicted their main symbol, the five-pointed star, with two rays upward. In addition, the leadership of the new government officially declared criminals to be “socially close elements.”

It is clear that regarding the Chinese, the authorities happily met them halfway in their culinary preferences and allowed the Chinese to eat Russian babies. Moreover, she advised us to do this openly, and not hiding, as during the tsarist regime. The goal is to exert frighteningly overwhelming moral pressure on the population of Russia, they say, these are the people who serve us. Be afraid, normal people, and those with mental disabilities come serve us. See WHAT we allow!

Guided by high benevolence, the Chinese began, without hiding from anyone, to eat not only aborted fetuses, but, obviously, just born babies. Only an experienced expert can distinguish them after heat treatment. Getting both during the revolution and civil war was as easy as shelling pears due to the mass destruction by the Bolsheviks and their mercenary servants, in particular the same Chinese, of all those who did not accept the power of the Jewish commissars, including a large number of women. If they were pregnant, then at the request of the Chinese, they were given a forced abortion before being shot, or babies born behind barbed wire were given to the Chinese.

In addition, aborted fetuses were taken from hospitals, where women were lured into abortion in various ways. For example, a bribed or intimidated doctor during an examination could tell a woman that her fetus was dead, or complicate a woman’s pregnancy by prescribing her a poisonous “medicine” and thereby provoking for an abortion. If the child was still born, then bribed or intimidated doctors could say that the child was born dead. The “dead” children were then sent to those restaurants where the Chinese worked as cooks.

All the horror ended only in 1937 after I.V. Stalin convinced the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks that, due to the end of the civil war, military units of hired foreigners were no longer needed in the Red Army. This is how the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks No. 1428-326 of August 21, 1937 appeared, according to which the Chinese were deported to their historical homeland.

But the current officials from the democratic government, apparently, either have not studied history, or are quite intelligently carrying out someone’s satanic order to populate Rus' with the Chinese (for example, to build a “China town” in St. Petersburg), not realizing that the Chinese foreign evil with In time it will get to them. Or will they manage to escape abroad? For us, Russia is the only Motherland - and we have nowhere to run. In St. Petersburg restaurants, Slavic babies were already included in the menu. Didn't know?

What do the Chinese eat? An ordinary resident of Russia will shudder at this question and imagine cockroaches, dogs or human embryos. However, those who have been to China know that these are just stereotypes. Although, there is still some truth in them.

Features of Chinese food

It is worth noting that the Chinese food is particularly diverse and is, one might say, a way of life of the people. A special distinguishing feature of Chinese food is its spiciness. For example, chili pepper is added to almost all dishes. This is done not only for the sake of unusual taste sensations, in this way the Chinese protect their body from infections, since the products from which the dishes are prepared may not always be fresh due to the heat.

The true love of the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom is street food. On city streets you will find many kiosks and mobile tents, the food in which amazes the imagination of the ordinary Russian person with its “exoticism”. Here you will find everything from rice balls on sticks to crispy chicken legs.

Typical Chinese diet

What do the Chinese eat every day? Frequent “guests” of the Chinese table for breakfast, lunch and dinner are dishes of rice, noodles, eggs, meat, fish and vegetables. Nothing unusual yet. But there is also something that distinguishes the basic diet of the Chinese from the Russian one.

Soybeans

Soybeans have a special place in Chinese cuisine. After all, it is from them that soy milk, soy sauce and soy curd are prepared - tofu, which is rich in protein, calcium and iron.

Chinese noodles

Noodles are one of the favorite dishes for the Chinese. They eat it a lot, prepare it from rice or wheat flour and believe that it promotes longevity.

Sweets

Chinese sweets will most likely seem unusual to a Russian. But for all local residents they are already familiar. For example, corn ice cream or moon cookies.

Surely everyone has heard about Chinese tea at least once. China is the first country to begin cultivating tea. Now you will find many types of this drink: green, yellow, red, etc.

Chopsticks vs fork, what do the Chinese eat?

There is a common belief that the Chinese eat exclusively with chopsticks. But this is not entirely true. Yes, chopsticks are the most common cutlery in the Middle Kingdom, however, if you go to a restaurant, they will bring you the cutlery we are used to. Street food is usually eaten with disposable forks or chopsticks, or with your hands.

What can Russians eat in China?

A Russian should try Chinese food only based on his preferences and body characteristics. But if you are not a fan of exotic things, then Chinese cuisine has very familiar dishes for you.

Chinese dumplings are slightly different from those prepared in Russia. In China they are flatter and are sometimes served with broth. The difference between the Chinese counterpart and ours is the variety of fillings. There you will find vegetable dumplings and even shrimp dumplings.

Baozi

Baozi is a very popular dish in China. Simply put, steamed pies. Usually they are prepared with meat filling, but there are other options.

China is rich in traditions and rituals. Food for the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom is also a ritual. It is varied and can surprise even an experienced cook. However, everyone will find something to their liking in Chinese cuisine, you just have to try it.

Chinese cuisine is one of the most diverse and popular in the world. Sushi, rolls, dishes using soy, rice and noodles - these are just a small part of what defines Chinese cuisine and what is enjoyed with pleasure in our country. In fact, food is of great importance in Chinese culture and for a true Chinese, not only the taste of food is important, but also its appearance, as well as proper presentation. We invite you to experience Chinese food culture and take a look at the menu of one of the restaurants on Hainan Island.

Breakfast

Youtiao with soy milk

Price - 2 yuan

Pieces of dough fried in oil, the Chinese equivalent of churros. This dish originated from a historical figure, the great official of Chin Hui. He was an envious and greedy man, received a large bribe and conspired against the people's beloved general Yu Fei. All the Chinese hated the vile official, and one day, while talking with each other, two bakers, in the heat of the moment and anger, tore up pieces of dough and threw them into boiling oil, imagining that it was Chin Hui himself. It turned out so tasty that soon everyone began to “punish” the villain this way.

Bao luo fen

Price - 10 yuan

Rice noodles are the basis of all bases and most dishes on the island. Local housewives cook it with vegetables, chicken, seafood and whatever comes to their mind (with the inevitable sauces - some of them are very spicy) or throw it into soup like vermicelli. A common feature of all rice noodle dishes is that you should not count on al dente readiness: the bao lo fen will be slightly boiled, soft and in a juicy broth.

Yu Tang

Price - 50 yuan

Fish soup is the common name for a favorite dish of Hainanese people. Any fish (or seafood) is boiled, and either shrimp, or noodles, or vegetables and onions are added to the soup - in short, whatever is in the refrigerator and whatever the cook’s imagination allows for.

Dong gua hai luo tan

Price - 30 yuan

Mussel broth with gourd pumpkin.

Dinner

Zicai dan hua tang

Price - 30 yuan

Seaweed soup. Hainanese are distinguished by the fact that they always eat soup - for breakfast, lunch and dinner - and explain their extraordinary longevity to this habit.

Baozi and Jiaozi

Price - 30 yuan

Classic Chinese manti and dumplings. They can be served with anything that the hostess’s imagination allows: wild garlic, shrimp and celery, meat, vegetables, a sweet egg.

Wenchang ji

Price - 20 yuan

Chicken. One of the main Hainanese dishes. The bird for this dish must be very fresh: it is immersed in boiling water for only three minutes - the meat is already ready, but the blood is still flowing from the carcass. It is then carelessly chopped with a knife and served with the head and feet on so that it can be seen that it was a fresh and whole chicken.

Jiaji I

Price - 40 yuan

Boiled or steamed duck, which has previously been given extra nutrition, like birds for foie gras. For jia ji ya, they are supposed to be fed with tofu and cereals - this makes the meat very tender.

He le se

Price - 60 yuan

Yellow crab meat that melts in your mouth, delicious in itself, aromatic and slightly oily. The crabs are steamed and then served with a garlic, ginger and vinegar sauce.

Xian Yu

Price - 40 yuan

Salted fish. There are two ways to prepare it. First: actually, rub it with salt before frying, but this is condemned by adherents of a healthy diet. Second (and this is what many island residents do): gut and cook the fish for frying, and then briefly dip it in the sea to make it salty. Fish and seafood are eaten almost more often than meat due to their proximity to the ocean. For example, there are floating fish farms where all kinds of shrimp, crabs, octopus, mussels and scallops are grown (and then cooked in floating restaurants). Most often, such farms are run by representatives of the Dan Jia Yu Min people, who traditionally live on the water and rarely go down to solid land.

Snacks

Yu zha hua sheng

Price - 10 yuan

An important characteristic of Hainanese is that they respect snacking between meals, and roasted peanuts are their favorite snack.

Zongzi

Price - 4 yuan

Rice with meat in bamboo leaves. In the north of Hainan they grow their own rice - very tasty - and also serve it as a side dish. Hainan is generally very proud of the fact that it is almost completely self-sufficient: here, thanks to the climate, almost everything grows. True, due to the heat, the livestock here is lean and very thin, so local meat may seem tough to some.

Di gua e

Price - 15 yuan

New sweet potato leaves stewed with garlic and butter.

Si jiao dou

Price - 20 yuan

Beans of the "four corners" variety. It is served as a side dish - slightly fried with soy sauce.

Soft drinks

Tea

Price - from 20 to 200 yuan

The tea ceremony for the island residents is not an empty phrase. For them, a tea house is like a modern coffee shop: a place where they can gather, discuss news, sit leisurely and drink tea. The most popular varieties here are oolong, cutin, pu-erh, “Emperor's Concubine” (with ginseng) and “Scarlet East” (with tropical fruits). There is also tea made by hand - just like on the continent: flowers tied to a tea ball. After pouring boiling water over them, you can watch for a long time in a transparent teapot as the flowers “bloom” and sway. Only here they don’t consider it real tea - rather, they recommend it as a beautiful and affordable souvenir.

Coffee

Price - from 30 to 300 yuan

On the island, unlike mainland China, coffee is loved and grown, for example in the Xinglong Botanical Garden.

Cocoa

Price - 30 yuan

Cocoa beans are also grown here, which are then mixed with coconut milk to produce very tasty cocoa - but this is also unusual for a typical Hainanese; he would rather brew himself a thermos of tea.

Desserts

Tsy ba

Price - 8 yuan

Steamed glutinous rice cakes made into an elastic paste, wrapped in lightly poached bamboo leaves.

Qing Bu Liang

Price - 12 yuan

A popular sweet that is eaten instead of ice cream. Fruits, beans, noodles - all in ice-cold coconut milk. Locals laugh: not every tourist can try this.

Alcohol

No mi jiu

Price - 30 yuan

Rice tincture. If the Chinese drink, they are supposed to say: “Ganbei!” when you clink glasses (that is, “bottom up!”). And if someone does not drain the glass completely, they ask him: “What do you have in there, live fish?!”

Original taken from griphon in How not to starve in China

Chinese cuisine is a whole vast world! Besides the fact that it itself is extremely multifaceted and diverse, it can differ radically in different parts of the country! It is known that each province is, in some ways, its own planet. Well, this is exactly the same in food.

In China, of course, there are many different types of food for completely different budgets. There are taverns for peasants and taverns for truckers, and cafes for office plankton, and fast food, and even pretentious restaurants. Let's briefly look at what you can eat in China, how to order dishes, etc. If you've already finished your New Year's salads, then get ready to drool from hunger. :)

(Prices, if anything, are in yuan, multiply by 10 to get rubles, or divide by 6 to get dollars)

So, one of the most popular dishes is noodles. It can be pure noodles, it can be in the form of a soup, it can be with additives and much more. You can find noodles almost everywhere! This is one of the most budget-friendly food options. 6-10 yuan.

There are instant noodles, and there are slow ones. Sometimes it’s spicy, sometimes it’s not so spicy. But it’s a fact that in China you can’t live without noodles!

Rice dishes are also popular for obvious reasons. Rice is made, and all sorts of additives are poured into it: meat, chicken, fish, vegetables, or whatever you can think of. This dish will cost you from 8 to 15 yuan.

These are the two foundations of all cuisine: rice and noodles! Potatoes, popular in Europe, are rarely found here. Every time you find a potato it will be a holiday for you! And you will eat it with rice too!

Soups. If it comes with meat, it’s a little more expensive - 15-20 yuan.

Another quite popular food is boza or “Chinese dumplings”. At first I was wary of ordering them, but then I tried them once and loved them with all my heart. They are really tasty! They cost 2-4 yuan per boz.

In general, I must say right away about all Chinese food - it’s a lottery! You will never know if it tastes good or if you can even eat it before you try it. And it doesn’t matter which one - street or store. So, for example, in Urumqi, tired of surprises, we bought sausages in the supermarket to cook in the hostel, and they turned out to be... sweet. They pushed the couple inside, choking, but couldn’t do it anymore.

A typical simple Chinese folk food looks something like this. It’s clear that we ate mainly in such establishments.

Because something more civilized will be more expensive than in Russia, and it’s not a fact that it’s also tasty. And here, closer to the people.

Simple cafes also differ in their type and in how and what they sell. Most of them have a standard menu, which includes various dishes from noodles, rice, meat, and vegetables.

Often, however, there may be a dish on the menu like “lamb with vegetables” and it will be expensive. This dish is usually taken for 2-3 people and can be accompanied with unlimited quantities of rice for free! This is a consumable item in China!

There are, however, buffets too. These are very cool eateries. You come to them, pay “per plate” (15-20 yuan), and then you can serve what’s in the trays yourself. And you don’t have to experience any torment from fear of naming the wrong dish.

The best part is that with all this you can give yourself unlimited amounts of rice. This is such an endless consumable substance that no one counts!

In general, rice is the head of everything!

Sometimes there are buffets of soups.

Quite a street look. I was scared to eat here at first, given the hot weather. But then he took a risk and was right.

It looks so simple. You sit and eat at a table right on the sidewalk. Less complexes!

With all this, even though China is a tea country, for some reason there is no tea in most restaurants. The best they can offer you is purchased water, or just boiling water (of course, free of charge, like clean rice).

Another interesting type of “cook it yourself” cafe!

Each table has its own fryer, they bring you a raw dish, and you fry it yourself on the spot.

On my last visit to China in 2009, I was so screwed. I ordered what I saw on my neighbors table. They bring me a plate of raw meat. “Hmm, strange,” I thought. “Okay, this is probably the kind of food they have, so,” and he began to eat this raw meat. The waiters, seeing this with horror, began to tear pieces of raw meat out of my mouth and show me what to do with it.

The Chinese love to eat in public catering in large groups or families. In this connection, such a phenomenon as a “rotating table” is popular here. The bottom line is that there are a lot of expensive dishes that every person cannot afford. But they take several of these dishes for everyone, and everyone, by rotating the top level of the table, can put in whatever they want. So they exchange dishes in a circle.

Sometimes, instead of cafes, there are simply tables on the streets at which people are fed something. This is usually done for the poorest public; here you can eat very cheaply.

For many traveling to China, an important question arises - how can they order food here? The hieroglyphs are incomprehensible; you can’t explain them in words, since you don’t know Chinese. Fortunately, it's not all that scary. There are several proven ways to order the food you need in China and not be poisoned by it.
1. The easiest way is to come to a cafe where there is a menu with pictures. From them you will immediately see what is what. In many food stores these pictures hang right on the wall. So you choose what you want, poke it, and wait for it to be brought to you.

2. Go up and see what the Chinese are eating at the next table and say, “I’d like the same.”

3. Learn basic characters (rice, noodles, meat, beef, potatoes, chicken), etc. And show them to the seller.

Potatoes, as I said, can be found. But this dish is extremely rare and atypical for China. It's usually very spicy!

Let's talk now about street fast food. It is comprehensive and diverse!

This is where you can find all sorts of French fries, kebabs, shrimp, sausages and other crap. It is often very acute.

Flatbread

To celebrate that we found potatoes in the Chengdu passage, we bought more of them. It turned out it was impossible to eat it. Spicy-spicy!

All kinds of lollipops

Who knows what's with the spices.

Sausages on a stick are very popular. They are coated in spices, but the spices are delicious. 1-2 yuan per skewer.

But these are kebabs, mussels, and other horrors

Guess what it is. I did not dare to experiment on my own stomach. Chinese food caused me constant stress during the first weeks...

Burnt corn is sold in the northern regions of the country

All kinds of bakery and confectionery products are also popular in China.

Goodies

Tibet has its own baked goods

If we are already talking about regional characteristics, then we can start with Tibet. This is such a strangely cooked potato with rice.

Pizza in Shanghai

Many areas of the country love to eat donkeys.

Rice with donkey meat. Yunnan.

Donkey burger. Beijing

Meat plates. These are sold in large quantities in Macau, but this photo was taken in Shanghai. These plates are very tasty, but incredibly expensive (you can see the price tag for 100 grams). The only thing that gives me joy is that they are given to taste for free. If you walk back and forth past the shops for a long time, you can, in theory, get enough to eat.

And, of course, Peking duck! Where would we be without her?

Indeed, a very popular dish in the capital. Sold both in the tourist center and in ordinary residential areas

The duck is really tasty and inexpensive (8 yuan).

When you travel on a train, you traditionally take grilled chicken on board. And when you take the train from Beijing, you take grilled duck on it.

By the way, in the Canton region, and specifically in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, I also saw ducks!

Well, what would China be without tea?

Tea shops abound in Beijing and in Pu'er's homeland - Yunnan (including in the city with the corresponding name).

Tea ceremonies in parks are simply popular in Chengdu.

If you find yourself in Beijing, I highly recommend the tea market on Malingdao Street (Wan Zi metro station, line 7).

In any tea shop you can taste different types of tea, even if you don’t want to buy anything.

There is a ceremony for the sake of ceremony, for the sake of communication, like everything in the east! Beware of spending too much time shopping, you might end up wasting your time drinking tea :)

Student canteen. Chengdu.

We tried to eat here, it seemed to be cheap, but nothing impressed us.

Another funny thing is that in more pretentious cafes you can find the following innovations: a conveyor belt with moving cakes. You can grab something to eat while he passes by you.

Uyguria is also unique in its cuisine. Since this is pure Central Asia, the cuisine here is appropriate. Flatbreads familiar to everyone who has been to Uzbekistan. Lagman is also popular.

What a barbecue!

Regarding food in stores. I have already talked about sweet sausages. It is interesting that in such a large country as China, supermarkets are extremely underdeveloped. Even in big cities there are few of them, but in medium and small cities (all by Chinese standards) there may be almost none at all.
Mostly shops are small shops with 1-2 halls. Most of them do not have refrigerators, so it is impossible to buy perishable food there. The main assortment, in addition to all sorts of muffins and water, is various types of instant noodles and freeze-dried sausages. Once we decided to cook on a burner, standing with a tent in nature. We bought these sausages (each of which is in a separate cellophane package). Well, you understand what can be in sausages that can be stored for weeks without refrigeration, and how pleasant it is to eat them. All in all, another negative experience.

In supermarkets, sometimes you can find different interesting things. For example, canned panda.

You can also shop at markets. Cheap fruits and vegetables! Delicious and fresh. But keep in mind that the price is usually for 0.5 kilos!

Of course, as we have seen, it is quite possible to eat in China, and you can even enjoy it. However, from this constant stress, from not knowing what they will bring you, from continuous noodles and rice, you eventually get tired. Therefore, when, after several weeks of wandering around the expanses of China, we saw a McDonald's in Chengdu, we looked at each other and ran there without hesitation :) “Ugh, how can you go to a McDonald's in a country with such a unique cuisine,” gourmets, aesthetes and some will say? some anti-globalists. “But this is how it is possible” - we go wherever we want, I will answer. And I don’t care what anyone thinks about it. Since I want to go to McDuck, why not do it?

There is also an intra-Chinese chain called Dicos, which sells chicken fast food. I've been there a couple of times - I didn't like it, it was very expensive. McDuck is better and more proven - everything you need: potatoes, hamburgers, cola - it's there. When you want to take a break from ducks, donkeys, disposable noodles, you won’t find a better place. :)