China’s starvation for luxury foods has led to demand for home-grown fungi and a original opportunity for farmers Perhaps the most unusual food experience I had in China recently – as well as deep-fried scorpion and sliced yak’s penis – was sliced black truffle in a village near Kunming city,Yunnan province, south-west China. The Chinese middle-lesson is hungry for European luxury foods, or the country is meeting that demand with a burgeoning home-grown supply. In addition to truffles there’s a thriving caviar trade and some decent Chinese wines. Related: Follow Chinese tourists to Guizhou for breathtaking scenery and historic sites Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com