We had some lovely meals while on holiday on Hainan Island, China. The choices were many with fresh vegetables and rice dishes to accompany the seafood, pork, lamb, chicken, and assorted other choices.
I am not very adventurous with my meal choices but some of us were keen to try the frogs, and assorted other unmentionable choices considered a delicacy in China.
Some of our menu choices were the source of amusement to us as the conversion to English was a bit disconcerting EG: "Fried Screw with Pepper"; Pan Fried Cowboy Bone"; Fresh Drew Cattle Bone"; "Shredded Tripe with fried Insect Flower"; Clay Pot mushrooms & Pork Stomach"; "Tasty Boiled Frogs with spicy"; "Sauteed Pig Kidney"; "Wind Duck Soup with Duncheon herbs"; "Fungal Infection of Hand of Goose"; "Wild Bacteria"; "Crab Overies" "Pig Intestines" - just to name a few!!!!!
Fortunately the food looked a lot better than it sounded and none of us got sick.
We visited some very nice places and the food was plentiful and not expensive. The cost was mainly with the wine and spirits.
Our Chinese Guide accompanied us for many of our meals which was very useful when trying to identify exactly what the meals were.
Eating at the hotel restaurants were convenient and they did offer some good Western choices. The Chinese Restaurants outside the hotels offered the traditional Chinese Meals including everything that the Chinese people consider a delicacy including choosing your own food from a live tank of seafood & it would be cooked fresh for you.
Our lunches at the golf resorts were more Western styled with lunches such as "toasted sandwiches and chips" being offered among other more sophisticated meal choices.
None of us went hungry with buffet breakfasts being offered at the resorts and hotels that would rival any hotel in Australia.
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