i'm still not quite done with my eating adventures in china so bear with me! one of the last nights we were in guangzhou, my cousin treated the whole family to a new way of eating in the huangsha area that i had yet to experience! if you don't like seafood, then this isn't for you (and what's wrong with you?? i kid, i kid!).
in huangsha there are a few restaurants around that allow you to go to the seafood market below, purchase the seafood that you want, and then they'll cook it for you! i can see how it is fun every once in a while, but for the most part when i go to a restaurant, it's cause i want to pick out something i want to eat, and then not do any work for it.
so after seeing our HUGE 22-seater table (with the largest lazy susan i've ever seen) equipped with our own couches and television, we headed down to the market to get some grub for dinner.
there was SO MUCH food that night we didn't know what to do with ourselves. this included a lot of supplemental veggie dishes that i didn't snap pics of. having the huge lazy susan for 22 people didn't work out so well either. essentially if the food passed in front of you, you exercised those ninja chopstick skills and grabbed what you wanted or waited for it to make the rounds in front of everyone else and hoped there would be something left on the plate the next time it came by you. you can bet that i grabbed a piece of raw salmon every time!
in huangsha there are a few restaurants around that allow you to go to the seafood market below, purchase the seafood that you want, and then they'll cook it for you! i can see how it is fun every once in a while, but for the most part when i go to a restaurant, it's cause i want to pick out something i want to eat, and then not do any work for it.
so after seeing our HUGE 22-seater table (with the largest lazy susan i've ever seen) equipped with our own couches and television, we headed down to the market to get some grub for dinner.
see. baller room.
snapshot of the market
sashimi grade salmon we purchased
geoducks! we didn't purchase...but i had to snap a photo
flower crab
mantis shrimp (aka 'peeing shrimp' in cantonese) and yes, the chinese have a different standard of cleanliness in their 'markets'
more crab
the goods for dinner! the waitress took note of everything we bought
the end result!! the best green onion crab i've ever had
scallops--one of my favorite kinds of seafood ever!
shrimp
HUGE table
the cooked flower crabs
raw salmon. SO good. oh, and this was 1 of 3 trays...
pissing shrimp--probably least favorite dish of the night
there was SO MUCH food that night we didn't know what to do with ourselves. this included a lot of supplemental veggie dishes that i didn't snap pics of. having the huge lazy susan for 22 people didn't work out so well either. essentially if the food passed in front of you, you exercised those ninja chopstick skills and grabbed what you wanted or waited for it to make the rounds in front of everyone else and hoped there would be something left on the plate the next time it came by you. you can bet that i grabbed a piece of raw salmon every time!
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