Real Chinese Food

English menus in Chinese restaurants were very nice including the name and a picture of the food.  I took pictures of the ones that were most different from what we get at home.  One huge difference between Chinese food and American food is that generally Americans don't want to know what animal they are eating while the Chinese don't see any reason to hide it and often consider the parts we wouldn't eat as delicacies.

The Fungus sounded a little weird, but it was by far my favorite food.

I'm wondering if the vegetarian part  of this 'vegetarian duck' meant that it didn't look like the animal of origin.

This one was just an interesting typo.  I wonder if God Fish has more sole.

Goose Webfoot with mushroom

Only the turtle and sea cucumber are different.

Green Vegetarian Food aka broccoli

Shark's fin is becoming a controversial food because of the toll it takes on the shark population according to one article I read in a Chinese newspaper.

Fish lips was an amusing idea.

He looks sad...

I was too chicken to try this one.

Chicken Tendons with vegetables.

Can't escape goats even in China.  This is goat tripe.

More fish lips this time in soup

chicken.

and more chicken.

Our hotel generally included a Chinese/ American breakfast:
*Always congee but  the toppings for it varied.  Congee is a rice porridge served with various toppings.  None of the toppings were sweet; most of them seemed to be some kind of pickle.   One of them looked like brown sugar  but didn’t taste like it at all.    I tried it a couple of times, but my brain seems to expect sweet in my
porridge rather than pickled.  It  probably tasted as good to us as sugar on porridge would taste to a person used to eating congee with pickle.
*Fried rice—daily although the vegetables varied somewhat.
*Fried noodle—again daily but with different vegetable.
*A variety of cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce
*Sausage: generally weisswurst which tasted very German.  It seems to have been steamed rather than roasted.
*Eggs:  each day one or two varieties:  fried, hard boiled, or preserved
*Vegetable:  baby bok choy,napa cabbage or steamed cucumber. The baby bok choy with soy sauce was especially good.
*2 kinds of cereal—chocolate flakes and plain flakes.  The chocolate ones were sweet.  They were next to the hot milk; cold milk was on the other side of the coffee.
*toast—I observed the proper way to eat toast using chopsticks but didn't take a picture.  It’s roughly the same as eating the sausage:  pick up the whole thing in the middle and nibble away around the edges.  Bottom line is that Chinese people don't seem to eat anything with their fingers--it's much more sanitary.