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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
I've been to China and would have no problem with any family member going there. You really have to step out of line to get into problems. And the food WAS horrible. Worst Mongolian beef I ever had was within 50 miles of Mongolia! That's what they serve at hotels and restaurants catering to tourists, and charge $20 per meal. On the other hand, if you wander into one of the local street markets, the food is fabulous---We got a bowl of stir fried pork that was huge, virtually all meat----fed 8 people, for 40 cents. The vendor wouldn't even take $1 for it---kept saying "too much".
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Coincidentally and just by chance, last night I watched an Anthony Bourdain episode filmed in Shanghai, it was exceptionally interesting. If you did not know they were filming in China you could have thought it was one of the major capital cities in any other country. Personally, I had no idea they were now so advanced. But Bourdain is all about food and he ate off the street vendors and in the restaurants and he thought the food was excellent. When they gave a list of ingredients it was sort of stomach turning, but the Chinese probably think we eat awful food!!!
He had quite a long conversation with a Chinese/American University Professor who has chosen to return to China. Their discussion was about the speed of technology taking over China and what they were going to do with the billions of under-educated Chinese who will never be able to find work and enjoy the new "good life". Many of the people Bourdain spoke to had been educated here in the USA and returned to China. Very interesting ........... Now I want to see China!