Finger lickin' good!

One of the best things about living in China is the food. Chinese food in America is nothing like the real stuff. The food here can be so delicious. It is usually very fresh. The green vegetables we ate at lunch could have still been in the field the day before. The roasted chicken might still have been clucking this morning.
Real Chinese food is also very diverse. There is a huge variety. Since actually living here, American Chinese food tends to taste all the same and be somewhat bland.
I like the fact that the kids are being exposed to new and interesting things. I try not to let my food prejudices rub off on them. Usually if they want to try something, we let them and even encourage it.
The Chinese people will eat things that we wouldn’t dream of eating. They eat all kinds of creatures and all parts of those creatures.
Last Sunday after our meeting, we went to a place that serves food from the North west part of china. The specialty of this restaurant is barbequed lamb and Chicken. It is delicious. This time the chicken came with not only the head (it is typical), but its feet too!. Chicken feet are a much enjoyed snack here in China. I have heard that Tyson sends all the chicken feet from its birds to China.
I was really just joking when I asked Liam if he wanted to eat a chicken foot, but when he readily agreed, who was I to discourage it? I got Jon to take pictures!

I helped hin a little


Then he did it himeself!

Not to be out done, Hallie tried one too.

If she doesn't eat it, she could talk it to death!

The chicken only had two feet, so Eryn did not get to try one.

A foot note to this story:

Hallie showed these pictures to our housekeeper and she fixed Chicken feet for the kids while Jon and Jen went shopping today.