Chinese Food?

I made the decision to avoid eating any sort of Chinese Food in America during summer before I got to Shanghai. This proved to be an excellent decision because the majority of the time the only things available to eat are dumplings, beef noodles, or kung pow chicken. Yes, you heard me right, kung pow chicken. It turns out that it exists outside of the United Sates and it's actually very similar to what you find in the United States. That being said it hasn't been too difficult to find things to eat. There are always American staples to fall back on if it becomes too much. And although things like chicken feet and pigs hoof are available on every menu, they are easily avoidable.

Probably some of the strangest foods I've seen haven't been found on menus in restaurants or at street food stalls, but inside my local French turned Chinese supermarket Carrefour.

 Green Tea Oreos. They're...interesting.

 Hong Kong Fish Ball Pringles which I did not personally try.

 Giant pile of chicken feet at my supermarket. Available right next to the pig hoofs!

 I almost want to buy this just to see what it looks like inside the package.

Blueberry chips? I'll pass. 

Aside from these gems the labeling in restaurants can be misleading and sometimes you don't know what you're going to get. I went on a field trip with my Chinese class yesterday and saw a food item labeled "Cooked Salamanders" I wasn't planning on ordering this but it turned out to have nothing to do with salamanders at all; they were chicken feet! This same menu had another item that was labeled "Marajuana Bread" the look on our teacher's face when we told him what it meant was priceless and he quickly told the owner about the bad translation.

I'm hoping to get out to a food market soon to see some of the really crazy stuff they have here like fried honey bees! Not looking forward to possibly running into dog meat, but I've actually been told it's not in season, apparently winter is the season for dog. 

Yikes!