Have any of you read J. Maarten Troost's Lost on Planet China? This new book (2008) has a subtitle of "Or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid".
This is one adventurous guy! His previous books are entitled "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" and "Getting Stoned with Savages", so you can see he really gets around.
His books are not travel books, but a recounting of the things that befell him while he lived in different cultures.
He had a receptive attitude to all things Chinese (well, mostly) and managed to do well while getting around this enormous country, despite not speaking the language (s).
It's a good fun book, and I'll be looking for more of his writing.
And yes, he really did eat not one, but several.
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Live squid!!! Yikes. Sounds like a excellent diet food... makes it easy to just say no.
Read the other two and tell us about them! Sounds like fun.p
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