China is well-known for its technological accomplishments, but it also generates news for its people's odd eating habits. In a weird culinary twist from the neighbouring country, a viral video has appeared online depicting 'golgappas', a popular Indian street meal, packed with live zig-zag eels rather than usual ingredients like potato and gram.?
The video, provided by Instagram user Meg Koh, aka @megkoh, shows a Chinese woman struggling to eat the strange cuisine. Instead of the usual potato and gram filling, the 'golgappas' are served with a live eel wrapped around a tomato.?
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The video catches the woman's reactions as she fights to consume the eel, which appears resistant to chewing.
This latest culinary variation has inspired both intrigue and repulsion online in China, a country known for its adventurous palette, which includes delicacies like snakes and scorpions.?
The video has received more than 6.6 million views, with emotions ranging from surprise to disgust. More than 33,000 Instagram users have liked the video, and over 3,000 comments have been left.
Social media users have voiced both shock and criticism. While some referred to the woman in the video as a vampire, few questioned why she couldn't simply eat a 'roti' instead.?
A user called Ashwini Gond wrote that these people would eat anything and then manufacture a new ailment, while Zaira Zidane suggested that God create something similar in their future life for someone else to eat.
The viral sensation exposes the huge variations in worldwide culinary preferences, and it continues to elicit passionate reactions across multiple platforms.?
For those unfamiliar with such extreme culinary experiments, the sight of 'golgappas' filled with live eels pushes the bounds of gastronomic standards, eliciting reactions ranging from astonishment to outrage. Check the viral video here.
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