One thing that we like about China is the abundance of unique foods available. A “flower cake” bakery recently opened in our local shopping center. Fresh rose petals are used as filling:
they are baked into small snack cakes (these were a gift to us from some students last week):
How do they taste? Like rose petal pastry.
While walking today, we passed a large street food market:
There was a guy pounding a big lump of white goo,
blackened tofu,
banana cakes,
dinosaur bone soup (maybe),
and some cowboys selling antelope shaokao (maybe):
Some of the more interesting things had multiple legs:
Those were some very large centipedes: 
I’ve always heard that the small scorpions have the strongest poison, but assume it is negated by frying in recycled grease:
How do they taste? You’ll have to come and visit us in order to find out!
What?!?! You ate that??? Without being on a reality show that would pay you to do so? NO WAY.
Hahaha… it’s good to see you’re still an adventurous eater! Jessica clearly would not try that.
I bet it tastes like shrimp!
The rose petals are so pretty! Roses are so expensive here, I can’t imagine they would make them into a pastry. The only thing I would eat on this post would be the bananas 🙂
Actually, I decided not to chew up the scorpion and swallow it (I know – Bear Grylls would be disappointed). It probably would’ve tasted like grasshoppers (which we’ve eaten before), but I began wondering if it was wise to eat something poisonous…