A delicacy that makes your mouth water just looking at it, locals call it a taste of heaven
Dish name: Mouse pups steeped in liquor
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★★
Legend has it there is a drink called "three-squeak liquor": the first squeak is the sound of chopsticks picking up a mouse pup, the second squeak is the sound of the mouse pup being dipped into the liquor, and the third squeak is the sound of the liquor-soaked mouse pup being swallowed down the throat. With those three squeaks, the mouse pup bids farewell to the mouse world, and the person then drinks the liquor it was steeped in and is said to become tireless and extraordinarily vigorous, a dead cat turning into a tiger, think whatever you like, but they say its effects are truly formidable!
Dish name: Goat bie soup
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★★★
Actually "goat bie" is not goat dung, but the food remaining in a goat's stomach, including gastric juices and the undigested grass in the stomach. Goats are herbivores, so there isn't the slightest abnormal odour in the stomach, only the fragrance of green grass. It is a delicacy that came from Guangxi.
Dish name: Rice-field worm
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★★
People around Zhongshan and Jiangmen are very fond of eating rice-field worms. Rice-field worms are generally found in the surface soil and mud of rice paddies where salt water and fresh water meet in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, and they only come out of the mud when they breed. Rice-field worms generally eat rather tender rice leaves or other fresh tender grasses, so you don't need to worry that they are very dirty, and moreover they are quite demanding about their living environment, surviving only in unpolluted places.
Dish name: Sipunculid worm
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★
The sipunculid worm, whose scientific name is Sipunculus nudus, looks very much like an intestine, is long and tubular in shape, and is completely bare and hairless. Although the sipunculid worm is not as prized as sea cucumber, shark fin or abalone, its flavour is fresh and its texture crisp and tender, beyond what sea cucumber or shark fin can match. It grows on coastal mudflats, and because it is very sensitive to the quality of its growing environment and cannot survive once there is pollution, it is known as an "environmental indicator organism".
Dish name: Toad
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★★
When having hot pot, once a plate is brought to the table, the waiter will usually say, "this is a toad", and at first glance it really looks very much like a frog. If you knew it was a toad, would you still dare to eat it? Hahaha. But undeniably, several jin of toad, plus a green-headed duck, and then some pork rib pieces, tsk tsk, the final soup, that really is clear, sweet and delicious! The finest thing in the world!
Dish name: Fried pig brain
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★★
As for an ingredient like pig brain, people basically have two attitudes towards it: love it to death! Hate it to the bone! Those who love it say pig brain has a texture like tofu, but is even more fresh, tender and delicate than tofu! Those who hate it say the fishy smell of pig brain is completely unbearable!
Dish name: Dou dan
Adventurous-eater rating: ★★★★★
There is an insect commonly known as dou dan. Its scientific name is Clanis bilineata, and it is an insect that lives by eating bean leaves and drinking sweet dew, growing in a natural, non-toxic, pollution-free state. It is the city treasure of a certain city in northern Jiangsu! Don't ask me! Ya ya ya, just looking at the photo is unbearable! Do you dare to take up the challenge?