Fantastic post but you wrote one thing that was waaaay off. 18th century hygiene? WTF man! ??? They have more like Sea Peoples (1000 BC) hygiene habits.
I don't think you can bring down the entire Bronze Age civilized world if you're spending all your time slurping raw bats, which is to say, you haven't gone back far enough. And if you go further back still, you're going to reach tribal nomads with a rich oral legacy of survival wisdom; I don't think they were boiling toilet grease stew, either.
Basically, modern China--the product of dozens of apocalyptic events, starvation heaped on starvation--is presumably without, or nearly without, precedent with regard to their "unique culinary/hygienic traditions". I sympathize, but also, what the fuck guys get your shit together and stop rubbing raw offal garbage on your faces.
China is the dirtiest place I've ever seen. Sure air pollution, but all the waterways in the town I stayed in were green, trash everywhere, people hack massive loogies all the time, infants wear pants with a split in them rather than a diaper and just drop shit and piss whenever, they piss on everything and shit in the street. No wonder the Wuhan Flu is so bad there.
The big WTF moment for me is that they give you boiled water at restaurants. Not tea, just the hot water. It's because there's no guarantee water from the tap is potable. They told me not to accidentally drink shower water.
Fantastic post but you wrote one thing that was waaaay off. 18th century hygiene? WTF man! ??? They have more like Sea Peoples (1000 BC) hygiene habits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
I don't think you can bring down the entire Bronze Age civilized world if you're spending all your time slurping raw bats, which is to say, you haven't gone back far enough. And if you go further back still, you're going to reach tribal nomads with a rich oral legacy of survival wisdom; I don't think they were boiling toilet grease stew, either.
Basically, modern China--the product of dozens of apocalyptic events, starvation heaped on starvation--is presumably without, or nearly without, precedent with regard to their "unique culinary/hygienic traditions". I sympathize, but also, what the fuck guys get your shit together and stop rubbing raw offal garbage on your faces.
China is the dirtiest place I've ever seen. Sure air pollution, but all the waterways in the town I stayed in were green, trash everywhere, people hack massive loogies all the time, infants wear pants with a split in them rather than a diaper and just drop shit and piss whenever, they piss on everything and shit in the street. No wonder the Wuhan Flu is so bad there.
My bro said every restaurant had flus and roaches!
The big WTF moment for me is that they give you boiled water at restaurants. Not tea, just the hot water. It's because there's no guarantee water from the tap is potable. They told me not to accidentally drink shower water.