MADE IN CHINA-Guangzhou

From charming Yangshuo we are going to the Delta of Pearl River in Guandong Province. The Delta is probably the biggest industrial zone in the world. Several cities like Guangzhou, Dongguang, Macau, Shenzhen (cluster) surrounded by the never ending factories and grey, concrete block of flats for labourers. Every stupid cheap plastic object you have in your home was probably made here. Big modern cities like 12 million Guangzhou are the international trade centers.

But Guandong province is not only famous from trade and industry. It is a kingdom of strange food. People from Guandong eat everything what can move even if it is poisonous like scorpion or snake.

Modern world is coming so quickly that old customs are being removed from the downtowns. We had to visit some dodgy places, back streets and old markets searching for the best snacks.

international trade center

beggar or poet?

A butcher’s shop in old Guangzhou.

A girl in front of the butchery.

In the labyrinth of the back narrow streets.

Student dorm.


The best choice of pressed duck in the city.

Young guy selling snakes from the cage fastened to the bicycle. It is illegal business. If police come he has to go away very fast.

Cut the head off by scissors, take the skin off, remove the intestines and give still moving snake in the plastic bag to a customer.

The bowl with snake and frog remains.

Yellow scorpions, the most poisonous species. The best stuff to make a soup.

The scorpio vendor.