did you know in china they eat placenta, yes placenta. They take it right from a fresh pregnancy, put it in a cooler, take it home satee it, cook it and eat it. That only leaves me with one question. Would you do the same? and does it taste good?

I hate it when restaurants change the taste of some foreign foods. For example, Chinese food.

AH, yes, how interesting. I would do the same, alas I do not live in China and here it is frowned upon I should assume; so that would make the ingredients harder to come by. It is not only the placenta that I would be willing to eat, but the flesh of another person. I am fascinated by cannibalism. I find it stimulating.

I'm eating Chinese right now...

I ate Chinese food yesterday, Curry chicken chow mein.

I am also super jelouse because my sister gets to go to China next year.

Rice is easy to eat if it would just stick together. *looks at chopsticks* Mine aren't that thin, I guess they're Japanese, though I've seen thicker. *ponders* Though Thai food is my favourite. If only I remembered how to navigate Portland better. There was an awesome Thai place there...somewhere.

The problem with chinese chopsticks is that they're round and the ends are thin, japanese chopsticks are flat and wider, thus it's much easier to eat rice with them

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Darn it. Now I really want Chinese food...

I'll come to detroit and we'll hit a good place

The trick is to get sticky rice and scoop it up with the chopsticks instead of pinching it.

Darn it. Now I really want Chinese food...

depsite the joke below I'm okay with chop sticks, the secret to rice as passed on by my asian best friend is "bring plate to face, move rice in to mouth with chop sticks, lower plate, chew, repeat"

I love chopsticks; they're the only way to eat Chinese food.

If you can eat with chopsticks, you will always impress someone with your skills. We went to this tiny little Chinese restaurant in Toronto and my delegation thought it was so cool that I was able to eat chicken fried rice with chopsticks...

I ate a peacock egg once. Those are HUGE omletes.

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Originally posted by speed:
Why make freaks of other countries eating habbits when we have the highest obesity rate on the planet.

Because it's not freakish for humans to want to eat large quantities of calorie-rich foods.

I love chopsticks; Even though I end up sharpening them with my pocket knife and using them as tiny spears.

Why make freaks of other countries eating habbits when we have the highest obesity rate on the planet.
Placenta is actually extremely nutritive, it does sound rather disgusting but it's definitly healthy.

One of these days, I'm going to eat a balut egg. They look scrumptious.

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Originally posted by artyjames:
In my anthro class, my professor was telling us about this tribe of people in the Amazon that creamate their ancestors and make a soup out of their ashes and bananas and drink it to keep them close.

He left out the part where they let the body rot for a few days before they slow roast it and eat it. They aren't supposed to enjoy the experience.

I heard some people put placenta on their hair because it makes it healthier and glossier?

Yuck.

In my anthro class, my professor was telling us about this tribe of people in the Amazon that creamate their ancestors and make a soup out of their ashes and bananas and drink it to keep them close.

Might I mention that SAUTEEing is cooking?