An ancient Cantonese saying goes

An ancient Cantonese saying goes, ‘Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies is edible‘. Even if we could, in theory, agree with this mantra, all too often we’re told tales of Chinese eating habits that strike us as downright freaky, at least by our Western standards. Silkworms, duck feet, fish eyes, soft-shell turtles, scorpions: all kinds of weird Chinese foods that we, as foreigners, may have stumbled upon in China. We often dismiss them as too bizarre, and rarely stop to