Fresh vegetables
2 min readHowever, what i am interested in discussing is not the sacrificial ritual for food but some of the methods the chinese use to eat meat as fresh as possible and what these methods involve. We are all agreed that the idea is to eat meat fresh but not raw, and this is generally the case for all world cultures ever since the discovery of fire Still less do these cultures eat animals live. So, why is it that society in China, and especially in the south of China, and even more specifically in the region of Canton, has managed to come to terms with the ultimate culinary contradiction that is, eating half-cooked food One of the most obvious examples of this halfcooked food is a certain way of preparing fish. It is so fresh that when it comes to be served at the table. it is still alive. the skill of the cook lies in the fact that the body is properl cooked, ready for eating while the head is not. This part has remained intact during the cooking process and, while it is being eaten, the fish by moving its mouth and gills, shows that it is still living this is the attraction of the dish This being the case, if the spanish refer to it as pez’ (a fish) when it is alive and when it is not pescado (fish as food), what would they call this hybrid? Perhaps they would have to name what the Chinese eat a ‘ pezcado'(a live cooked fish).
It really affected me to watch, in a fish market, how the fishmonger scaled ye fish so that the customer could take it home alive but clean As far as culinary practices are concerned,the Cantonese are a special case within Chinese society as a whole.In the north,where Beijing is,they tend to say sardonically that their southern neighbours will eat anything with legs,except for tables,anything that flies,except for aeroplanes and anything that swims,except for boats of course given that the human species is omnivorous the problem is not what they eat,but how they prepare it In the capital,in the tourist street Wangfujing,they sell scorpion snacksYou choose one and they fry it for you while you wait.