Comments on: Friday food fight: Scorpions on a stick https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/ Wine and the World's Biggest Market Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marc https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1367 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:34:16 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1367 I had the scorpion on a stick in Beijing last month just because I was there and so were the scorpions. This is the one time I would recommend Bai Jiu in a very large plastic cup prior to chomping on these critters!

]]> By: Grape Wall of China » Friday food fight: Beijing duck https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1341 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:10:32 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1341 […] week’s candidate: that tourist-friendly treat scorpions on a stick. The wine recommendations: a French red (Rhone Valley Costieres de Nimes), an Italian Pinot Grigio […]

]]> By: Beijing Boyce » Grape Wall: Friday food fight, fire and ice wine, the wine word https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1339 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:21:08 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1339 […] Friday food fight […]

]]> By: admin https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1322 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:14:47 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1322 @ Frederick,

If that wine tastes like soil, then I bet even the scorpions would like it.

@ Simon,

That’s what I was thinking – something to cut that Scorpion grease!

@ Adam,

Or both?

Cheers, Jim

]]> By: Adam https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1313 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:19:05 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1313 I would match them with a Venetian Pinot Grigio or Pinot Bianco from MASI

]]> By: Simon Zhou https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1308 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:21:03 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1308 Nice picture, I have had scorpions on a stick few times around different parts of China. I have to say other than the crunchy texture, it does not have much taste. So I will pair it with a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
Reasons
High acidity to cut the oil (mostly deep fried)
Lovely aromatics and intense fruit concentrations to complement the lack in flavors of the scorpions

]]> By: Frederic Choux https://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1307 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:14:06 +0000 http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2008/07/04/friday-food-fight-scorpions-on-a-stick/#comment-1307 I think I have a good pairing for scorpions, a pairing that I experimented myself not a long time ago! I ate 5 delicious scorpions, very crunchy, they tasted like roasted chicken…My best proposed pairing for them is a French wine, a red Costieres de Nimes (extreme south of Rhone Valley), with 90% Syrah and 10% Black Grenache. The name of the wine is: Terre des Chardons Marginal. It is a bio wine (organic wine), with very strange flavours and aromas, completly different from any other Syrah. It has earthy, smoky and animal notes (leather), it tastes like soil, really like if you were putting your nose on the winemaker soil! I believe that the “animal” taste of this unusual wine makes it a very good friend of the scorpions and so a very good pairing! Santé!

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