Here’s a website that’s a lot of fun: typical Chinese food fare available from stands near the Olympics. The page is from the Daily Mail of London:

Laid out in trays and boiling in cauldrons are everything from goat lungs with red peppers to scorpion brochettes, seahorses on skewers, iguana tails, dung beetles and silk worms on a stick, by way of fried sparrows, grilled snake and turkey vulture schnitzels.

The locals insist that Western visitors shouldn’t be put off the food on sale on this street - after all, it is mostly ‘conventional’ Chinese cuisine and great for lunch or dinner.

Indeed, even though dog meat is off the menu for competitors during the Games - they’ll be filling themselves up with high-protein drinks and masses of carbohydrates - tourists can still sample dog brain soup or dog liver with vegetables.

Geoffrey Wansell provides excellent commentary. Barbara and Harry sent the photos via e-mail but I tracked them down in Wansell’s story.