[QUOTE=sfbarry]Did it taste like chicken?? They said the cuy I ordered in Cusco would....but they lied...

Wow, i've never had the guts to order cuy (fyi guniea pig). I'm a pretty adventerous eater, but just can't in this case. The restaurant that served cuy in Lima served it whole, with head on.

Back to China. You do have to becareful when eating out at street vendors. I never do as you don't know what you're getting. At least when I was in France and Italy, I knew I was getting horse or breaded cow brains in tomato sauce.

Another thing that I realized when in Beijing was NEVER to get water from individual vendors. Apparantely, they'll send kids out to collect the empty bottles and refill them with tap water. That's how people get sick as you can't drink the tap in China.