I'm still finding new foods to try. Some of them are excellent, for others I have to try not to gag while I talk myself into swallowing. Most of these don't taste bad but their texture and knowing what they are makes them difficult to eat. I never knew how food-biased American culture is. My ideas about what is appropriate to eat override what my mouth tastes; it's all in my head.

They removed the photo caption feature (which is really annoying) so this album includes: black rice crispy treat and meat candy; a truck selling huge twisted fried snacks; rice pillows, which are really like big cold cereal and I was tempted to put milk on them; taro cake, rather pasty; octopus (which I've had before but it never looked like this); Xi'an noodles, the noodles native to the city of Xi'an, a wheat noodle that is cooked into flat pieces (in the round pan in the upper left) then cut up into noodles; and banana, strawberry, and peach flavored microwave popcorn.