The Chinese penchant for eating anything on four legs that moves has been well documented. What was a little surprising during a recent visit to Hymall, one of the mid-sized supermarket chain-stores found around Shanghai that consistantly offers a reasonably pleasant shopping experience (a modest variety of western foods and refrideration standards simply a world apart from the open-air markets scattered around Shanghai that display the unrefriderated chunks of raw meat they are selling on wooden tables), was the open glass display of live bullfrogs - rather large ones.
The question immediately sprang to mind, why weren't these guys jumping all around the supermarket? One could speculate that perhaps their legs had been broken... The store clerks found it amusing that a westerner could find the live bullfrog display amusing, even if communicating the source of this westerner's amusement proved impossible.
