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Fair question. Easiest answer is "China is a big country" but that isn't the best answer. Raw seafood is pretty popular in coastal areas of Shandong and Liaon

by zhte415 10y ago

Fair question. Easiest answer is "China is a big country" but that isn't the best answer. Raw seafood is pretty popular in coastal areas of Shandong and Liaoning. Cold seas and pretty easy to identify as fresh or not. Raw veg in the Northeast in general is fine depending on what it is. Spinach should be cooked because of the way its grown (nightsoil not uncommon) but peppers/radishes OK raw (hanging fruit). Simply pragmatic food culture responses to how food is sourced, and habits of what's OK or not. A Guangzhou person is unlikely to be OK with raw crawling shrimp in a salad in Panjin, and a Panjin person complains about how seafood in Guangdong is tasteless as the sea is too hot so the seafood grows too fast (despite these conditions making it plentiful).

logfromblammo 10y ago
Did you mean to classify radishes as a hanging fruit? They are very clearly root vegetables, and you should literally wash the shit out of them before even thinking about eating one raw.
- DanBC 10y ago
  Some radishes are grown for their seedpods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radish#Seed_pod_varieties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radish#Seed_pod_varieties > The seeds of radishes grow in siliques (widely referred to as "pods"), following flowering that happens when left to grow past their normal harvesting period. The seeds are edible, and are sometimes used as a crunchy, sharp addition to salads.[13] Some varieties are grown specifically for their seeds or seed pods, rather than their roots. The rat-tailed radish, an old European variety thought to have come from East Asia centuries ago, has long, thin, curly pods which can exceed 20 cm (8 in) in length. In the 17th century, the pods were often pickled and served with meat.[13] The 'München Bier' variety supplies seed pods that are sometimes served raw as an accompaniment to beer in Germany.[22] (I hadn't heard of this until I looked. I firmly think of radishes as root vegetables.)

by zhte415 10y ago

logfromblammo 10y ago

Did you mean to classify radishes as a hanging fruit? They are very clearly root vegetables, and you should literally wash the shit out of them before even thinking about eating one raw.

DanBC 10y ago
Some radishes are grown for their seedpods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radish#Seed_pod_varieties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radish#Seed_pod_varieties > The seeds of radishes grow in siliques (widely referred to as "pods"), following flowering that happens when left to grow past their normal harvesting period. The seeds are edible, and are sometimes used as a crunchy, sharp addition to salads.[13] Some varieties are grown specifically for their seeds or seed pods, rather than their roots. The rat-tailed radish, an old European variety thought to have come from East Asia centuries ago, has long, thin, curly pods which can exceed 20 cm (8 in) in length. In the 17th century, the pods were often pickled and served with meat.[13] The 'München Bier' variety supplies seed pods that are sometimes served raw as an accompaniment to beer in Germany.[22] (I hadn't heard of this until I looked. I firmly think of radishes as root vegetables.)