Food market- how much is the doggy in the window?

on Tuesday, after I got back from the forbidden city, I decided to go with a few people to the "bar Strip". I don't know which of them to count as the under-estimation of the week- the "bar" part or the "strip"- it's like 5 crappy places with very expensive beer.
later we went to a dance club. I felt I was raising the age average, and Zohar (an Israeli girl I met here) and me kept mocking drunk western girls dancing. Also some kind of fun.
Yesterday I decided I am going to get lost in Beijing- I just left with no map or guide and walked- and ended up going to a really cool shopping mall and an awesome food court that had things that I actually eat. Now that doesn't happen very often. So cool...
Later I decided to go to an acrobat show with a couple of Israelis- only we got there too late and the rates were so high we decided to skip and get back. So I guess I can say I spent the afternoon "exploring". Yeah right.
At the evening a bunch of us went to the food market. Oy Gevult. There are booths all over the place with stuff like worms, scorpions, snakes, cow stomach, sea horse, star fish, octopus and many more of the little mermaid's gang... as well as stuff like chicken, pork and i'm pretty sure I spotted a dog, which gives a whole new connotation to the song "how much is the Doggy in the window". EEEWWWW!!!! the smell at the place is just delightful.....
One of te gang was a dutch guy who ate a grasshopper- now that's wrong- Pinocchio's with be very mad... he said it actually tasted rather good, only a few minutes after he started to have an allergic reaction to it. Lesson to be learned kids- make sure you are not allergic to grasshopper Before eating it.