Food (Part 2): The locals

Sensitive folks may want to avert your eyes.  Things get a little, um, vivid, towards the end of this post so be warned.  I will put an alert before the particularly "cultural" pictures.

I love street food vendors.  I don't care if it's a NY hot dog, a jacket potato in the UK, or cantaloupe sold from the back of a bike in Shanghai.

We did have the opportunity to go to 2 different local food markets.  I only wish we didn't walk through the market on the way to lunch, and then get excitedly told that the ingredients for our lunch came from that particular market, that very morning.  I much prefer the shrink-wrapped, sanitized American supermarket.  But the veggies looked good!

There was a street vendor row which comes alive at night.  They serve everything imaginable, and then some things you can't even imagine.  We were informed by our guide to not eat or touch anything.  So naturally, we had some in our group who decided to purchase and consume the offerings.  No less than 3 of our party ate snake from a street vendor.  Then to add insult to potential injury, the one guy then LICKED HIS FINGERS!  Ew, do you have any idea what kind of crap we were touching all day?  That's just asking to bring home some sort of enterovirus as a souvenir.

,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-LOCAL CUISINE BELOW-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸

,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(That means dead animals & parts which might be too much for Americans)-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸

,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-You Have Been WARNED-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸

Anyway, as much as I'm a fan of street food, I also enjoy food on a stick.  But somehow I found the inner strength to resist...

Grubs & Shrimp? Bubba from Forrest Gump never mentioned that.

I have no idea what is on the left side of this picture.  Scorpion maybe? Then a frog (lower left, looks blackish), snake in the middle, more unidentifiables, and a seahorse in the lower right! 

Calamari, anyone?

 

This is from the market, but I opted to slap it below the warning line: pig snouts & chicken feet.