"If your eyelids are sweating..."
September 4th 2010 "...then it's spicy." This quote from tonights dinner near Lao (Old) Beijing was followed by a short walk to a busy alleyway where some of us tried various animal kebabs. I actually only ate some sort of fried cocoon while my more adventurous comrades had scorpions, a lizard, and a tarantula -like spider. It really was the first scorpions I saw wriggling on their skewers that put me off the animal
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