As you know, China has everything! So of course there’s also a little Spain inside of Wuhan. They are currently also building Italy and Germany next to the Spanish area what’s in the last stop of the second metro line Optics Valley square station.
We entered to the Spanish street through massive shopping mall. Of course it was full of Chinese and hundreds of shops. Once we got out from the shopping mall we discovered lovely western style houses what were situated between skyscrapers. It really looked like Europe! They also had some fountains and sculptures like bulls, flamenco dancers etc.
It was extremely nice to walk around there. There were many boutiques, cafes and restaurants and an area called “Spanish cuisine” … well that’s another joke. Actually they are offering korean and chinese food in “Spanish cuisine area” and when we asked from one of the workers where could we find spanish food then he said that actually there’s no restaurants with Spanish food. So here’s a small business idea.. go and open an actual Spanish restaurant there 😉
Since we failed with getting any Spanish food, we decided to crab some fresh watermelon juice and headed to the shopping mall to a Hong Kong restaurant. And that’s how I stopped being a vegetarian in China! Ignasi insisted me to try chicken feet and I just couldn’t refuse the challenge.. so of course I tasted those and believe me or not but it was actually super yummy! I definitely recommend to try!
And all of you who miss Europe in Wuhan… go to the Spanish street! I’m sad that the Italian and German area were not opened yet but seems like they are building a little Europe there.
Liina Travels 
the guy from ‘spanish cuisine sign’ comes from pixar cartoon 😀 or it was dreamworks… but anyway, it’s from the movie about rat who has been a cook 😀 chicken feet are not scary, but I just hate the texture and taste 😀
Hahaaa oh yes 😀 It’s Ratatouille!!! Weird that I didn’t notice that before 😀
I actually really liked the taste.. I guess I have in general some mental block for trying things like frog/dog/rat meat etc.. but I’m happy I at least tried the chicken feet finally 😀
for me it’s more like texture, not the taste – everything gummy or bouncy is bad to me (unless gummy bear :D)
good you’ve done that – being in China/HK and not trying chicken feet is a shame 🙂 you also should try tofu century egg to make the list done 🙂
Well yeah I agree with you that the texture of chicken feet is a bit weird.
Hmm… let’s see about that 😀 I’m a bit afraid of trying this. Have you tried it? How was it?
I should probably try it my eyes closed because else it looks too disgusting 😀
you know, I’ve never tried it by itself but first time I ate it in hot pot – I didn’t even notice until my husband told me haha second time was the same – I ate at his aunt’s place a mix of soft tofu, century egg and a bit of soy sauce – it was my favourite dish until the moment he asked me do I know what I’m eating hah 🙂 it’s actually pretty tasteless 🙂
Hahaa 😀 wow, I would like to try it without knowing as well 😀
If it’s quite tasteless then it doesn’t sound like it could be very horrible experience.. I guess I should give it a try 😉
I think it’s just myth created by gwailos 😀 or maybe the one freshly taken from box really smells, but for me it was literally tasteless 🙂 I’m only sure that I will never eat a stinky tofu. never, ever – even after my dead body 😀
Hahaa 😀 why don’t you wanna eat the stinky tofu?
I mean yeah the smell is horrible and taste is also not the best but I still feel like it’s easier to taste the stinky tofu than those weird eggs 😀
just bad memories – we looked for wedding ring, it was almost 40C outside, so hot and we had to look for any kind of shadow and aircon and we stand there in Mong Kok argue for few minutes because we got annoyed and there was a stinky tofu in the backgroud 😀 so just avoiding it 🙂
Auch.. yeah then I understand 😀
That is too funny… Europe in China. Too bad there wasn’t any Spanish restaurants there. There are a few in Shanghai so maybe they will expand and go there too one day.
Yeah I hope they will 🙂 I was really interested in how would the Spanish food taste in China.. probably quite different from the one in Spain.
It depends on the chef… We have a lot of western places here in Shanghai and some are bad, OK or great. It sometimes can vary at the same location, but that is not always the case.