There is another odd thing on Chinese menus....
Birds' nest soup. They actually harvest the nests of swifts, and cook them. (in US birds nest soup is usually noodles).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%27s_nest_soup
I am not going to go further with this but the Chinese in China also eat other things we would find very repulsive here.
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