Plenty of interesting food experiences to be had in Beijing at the Olympics. I want to read an interview with the guy who eats nothing but Pizza Hut and McDonalds while he’s there. Pictured above are seahorses on skewers, which are mentioned in this Yahoo! article that hasn’t hopefully already been displayed on their sickeningly influential top stories bar on the home page.
The Guolizhuang restaurant specialises in animal penises while there are several donkey restaurants.
Stalls along Snack Street in the Wangfujing shopping district sell a range of delicacies on sticks such as seahorses for 30 yuan (2.26 pounds) and cicadas for five yuan.
The Chinese traditionally believe certain animals or their organs have medicinal properties.
“The seahorses are good for men’s kidneys and their virility. Those (crustacea) are for the girls to improve their skin and looks, and these (lizards) are for both the boys and the girls, they boost your virility,” said food vendor Sun Hainan.
Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah. That’s what happens when you eat dog too. Unfortunately for men in search of a harder penis you won’t be finding dog meat at the Olympics. Why? Well it was banned by the government several weeks ago. Don’t worry, dog eating will resume in China at the conclusion of the games. Surely Chinese women all across the country will be looking forward to that day.
Korea also hid many of its dog meat restaurants prior to the 1988 games in Seoul.

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1 Simon Currie // Aug 9, 2008 at 2:06 am
If seahorses on sticks are crunchy, I can see the potential of it being good beer food (anything fried and crunchy is usually good with beer).
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