This one isn't THAT big of a deal, but I've never seen YELLOW watermelon before. The taste? Exactly like red watermelon.
These are four of my university students who wanted to treat me to a nice Chinese dinner. We went to a "chuan" restaurant (pronounced "chuar" in Beijing). Chuar is basically BBQ. In a nutshell you stab hunks of meat with a stick and grill it. We had "niu rou" (beef), "yang rou" (lamb), and chicken wings (I don't know the Chinese for that), along with other vegetables such as chopped tomatoes covered in sugar and "hei mu er" (a black squishy fungus with no taste by itself, but the vinaigrette they put on it is awesome). All in all, a delicious meal!
This is a picture from when I went out with Micah and his Korean friend to a Korean grill restaurant. We again had chuar, only this time it was squid chuar! We also had soup that I believe was called "Army soup" because it was eaten by U.S. Army soldiers when they were in Korea. It consisted of cut-up hotdogs and ramen noodles in a spicy red broth. We also ate an awesome egg-bake, which you can see under the chuar.
And this one may have been the strangest thing I have eaten so far, simply because it boggles my mind why anyone would want to eat it outside of losing a bet. This dish is 100-year-old eggs. Yep, eggs that have been around for so long that they have turned black. And you eat them. 100-year-old eggs. Eating 100-year-old eggs.
So, those are some quick, random foods I've eaten in this crazy city called Beijing.
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