Five of My Own: Lori Eats a Scorpion

Our guide Kelly offered a tour of the markets and Dart and I and just one other from our group took her up-wow are we glad we did! We went through the food and medicine markets. It is so interesting how central food, herbs, roots, etc are to health here. I swear it is like every cook must also have a pharmacy degree. It seems every aliment could be cured by some root or herb or snake! Towards the end of our tour we walked down a road flanked by vendors selling "snacks" as Kelly called them. She told us that the TV show the Amazing Race had their contestants come here where they had to eat a scorpion as a challenge. OK I'm game! Actually I've joked forever that when I got to China I was going to eat a scorpion on a stick and so I did. Actually they weren't too bad. ..sort of nutty and crunchy. (Check out the video at the end.)