Fake Duck

Chinese people are the kings and queens of vegetarian food, no joke. Most of the vegetarian dishes they make are really inventive and tasty, probably because they have so many buddhist feast thingies where meat isn't allowed and Chinese people aren't content to eat some gross tofu stir fry thing like our dining hall makes.

However, sometimes they take things too far.

Check this out: my mom bought this fake duck in a can and we had it with dinner one night. I've seen some "fake duck" stuff that vaguely resembled sliced, skinned duck, and was cooked in the same flavoring that duck is usually cooked in. This fake duck, though, really looked like duck.





The part that really gets me is the "skin." From far away, it looks really realistic. Also, as you can see from the second picture, the "skin" looks like it's a separate layer from the "meat."
Fortunately or unfortunately enough, this tasted nothing like duck. It tasted like almost every other vegetarian thing made of wheat gluten tasted like, only it was a bigger piece of it. Overall not that bad!