The Chinese are infamous for eating "everything," and there are plenty of unusual foods on offer in their capital city. Curious visitors love the night market just off central Wangfujing, where you can buy deep-fried scorpions and other creepy-crawlies. Some of the old snack shops in the lanes to the east of the Forbidden City serve lu zhu huo shao (a soup of pork offal and pieces of flatbread) and other gutsy local dishes. Environmentally dubious exotica such as shark's fin, served in high-class restaurants, are best avoided.