Cultures vary on what may be considered food. Chinese cuisine features "vegetables with duck's blood," "Entrails of ox with bean curd," and my favorite, "beef with fungus," by which they mean mushrooms. Once at lunch, an older Chinese colleague picked up his chopsticks and showed me respect by piling wormy food on Joe's plate. "Eels!" he said proudly. Out of politeness, Joe managed to swallow a few and the man gave him more.
Standards of cleanliness and food disposal also vary. I am told that restaurant food left in common bowls is recycled. Above, a woman selling live eels in an open market.
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