Photo of the Day – Snacks at the Donghuamen Night Market – Beijing, China

This amazing market in Beijing was a real surprise (and treat) all in one. The market is located in downtown Beijing on one of the major streets and is heavily focused on what I would call ‘exotic foods’. From the picture, you can see they offered starfish, bee cocoons, silk worms, long horn beetles, centipedes, and snake. And trust me, there were lots of other ‘snacks’ such as snake skin and scorpions.

How would I know? Well, because we tried several of them!

Brad and I tested our taste buds out on snake skin, snake meat, scorpions, and a silk worm. Yummy. The snake skin was absolutely revolting in taste and the silk worm almost triggered an ‘auto-diet’ due to its texture. Moving on to the better snacks the snake meat was okay thanks to the spicy sauce it was coated in while the scorpions crunched, tasted, and went down like potato chips!

What’s the most exotic food you have tried and where was it?