Scorpions on a stick update: NBC
Here’s an update on my “scorpions on a stick” media monitoring project (for full details, see: On a stick? In Beijing? No way!).
Category: I would have put the scorpions at number 6
Candidate: Alan Paul, NBC
Clip:
After dark, Wangfujing, the busy commercial street located just Northeast of Tiananmen Square, becomes a bustling, wild and wooly food market, populated by individual vendors selling everything from deep fried scorpions and sparrows on a stick to lamb kebabs. And that’s not to mention cicadas, grasshoppers, stinky tofu, quail’s eggs and strawberry kebabs.
Comment: The story is titled, “Beijing after dark: Five things to do at night in China’s capital.” It begins, “Open any guidebook and you can pretty quickly find the main tourist sites in China’s capital city. But dig a little deeper, and you can find plenty of experiences that will make your visit truly memorable.”
Thanks Buddha that NBC is here to “dig a little deeper” and let us know that, in addition to eating scorpions on a stick, visitors can also: get a massage, go to an acrobatic show, visit Houhai, and take a pedicab ride around The Forbidden City. Ha, you pesky guidebook writers, you just got owned (not really)!
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