China has five thousand years of culture, and food culture is one of the important components of Chinese culture. Every place has its own customs and food. However, the food in some places is difficult for outsiders to accept or even resist. Let’s take a look at some of the more bizarre delicacies from various places and see which ones you can accept.

Sanzhier - Fujian Food

Sanzhier (pictures from the Internet)

Sanzhier, a famous Fujian dish, is actually named after a newborn baby A local dish that uses mice as its main ingredient. Of course, this kind of mouse is not the ordinary house mouse we see, but a kind of artificially raised and edible mouse. Why is this dish called Sanzhier? It's because when eating this dish, the newborn mouse will bark three times a day, when the baby mouse is picked up with chopsticks, when it is dipped in the seasoning, and when it is put into the mouth. Regarding the origin of Sanzhi'er, it can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty's "Chao Ye Qian Zai", which records that "the people of Lingnan like to be honey rats, that is, rats whose fetuses are not yet born, and whose whole body is red and crawling. They feed them with honey and nail them." At the banquet, people slurp and bite with chopsticks, making a chirping sound, so they are called honey chirps."

Live beads - Jiangsu delicacies

Live beads (picture) Sourced from the Internet)

Live beads are a famous specialty of Nanjing and are a snack in Jinling. A live bead is when an egg is about to hatch into a chick, but there is no fully formed hatch. This kind of hatchling already has traces of a head, wings, and feet, but it is not fully hatched. Because the developing blastocyst looks like a moving pearl under perspective, it is called "living pearl". Live beads have extremely high nutritional value. They not only contain amino acids needed by the human body, but also contain a large amount of calcium, but their fat content is only one-half of ordinary eggs. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, live beads were commonly eaten in various places in Nanjing. The Compendium of Materia Medica also recorded a passage: "Chicken embryonated eggs have the function of curing headaches, migraines, headaches and miasma of the limbs."

Blood mixed pork - Yunnan cuisine

Blood mixed pork is a delicacy of the Lahu ethnic group in Yunnan and a local specialty in Yunnan. It uses fresh tenderloin, heart-protecting blood and pepper as ingredients. Raw materials, plus ginger, pepper, olive skin and other auxiliary ingredients, make a bloody delicacy. Meat mixed with blood is a delicacy that the Lahu people must eat during the Lahu New Year. In the eyes of the locals, it is a rare delicacy. However, in the eyes of outsiders, a plate of bloody meat in front of them is really unacceptable. . As for the origin and efficacy of blood mixed meat, it is difficult to verify the details because it is a relatively niche delicacy.