Stinky tofu and other treats

So my first day in Wuhan, one of my co-workers, Daisy, took me and Freddie to Wuchang (part of Wuhan) to a walking street with all sorts of different little food venders. We were able to sample lots of different foodstuffs, the most notable being “stinky tofu.”

Stinky tofu is the real Chinese name translated, I shit you not, and with good reason. Stinky tofu is really just deep-fried tofu, but the aroma of deep-frying this tofu is pungent at best. It legitimately smells like the tofu is being deep-fried in shit. There is no way to accurately describe how disgusting the smell is without experiencing it first hand, but here’s a picture of the stinky tofu:



And this is what you do after you take a bite of this stinky ass tofu:



We also tried some deep-fried bananas. FYI, regular bananas are better than deep-fried bananas.



Daisy and Freddie had some octopus, but I couldn’t stomach it. You can see the little tentacles hanging off the skewers, and that’s just a little too much for me.

We did have some garlic-y clams and oysters which, for anyone who knows me, is very adventurous for me in terms of food. Neither were very good, but China is good at putting an abundance of seasoning on their food to cover up the taste, so it could’ve been worse. It wasn’t fishy, though, and that’s my main complaint with seafood.