Game of the week- what in the world is that???

What ?????

Ok, so I have been collecting pictures on my cell phone for months & today was the day that I decided to sit down and share them.  The first one I came to was this picture I took in the grocery store a few months ago.  Since we live in such an enormous city we rarely go to market- there are a gig-gazillion grocery stores within 5 minutes of our house (we can talk the pros and cons of that another time).  Anyhow, despite it being a grocery store there are still items in ours that you might expect to see at market but would most likely not see in the grocery stores in America.  This one is from the meat section- obviously.  I'm sure some of you won't take long figuring out what piece of meat this is- but I thought I'd ask since a few that received the picture in a text from me were a bit stumped.  Leave your guesses in the comments section. :)

While uploading the above picture I remembered a video I took of the kids in the grocery store over a year ago (look how much they've changed).  The kids love this part of the grocery store.  It's like visiting the pet store and the grocery store in one stop.  They are incredibly curious when butchering time comes but I'm not sure if they have ever stuck around to see the deed completed.  * Take note in the video how I catch myself... EW (I mean) yummy?!

During the process of posting this I recall when we first moved to China 6+ years ago when CJ wasn't even three years old.  At the time we lived in a much smaller city on the sea where fish markets were plentiful.  CJ would love to go to market and check out the daily catches.  One day he saw a patron choose her fish and someone prepare it- knock it with a bat and skin it (is that what it's called?).  A little later he saw the beginnings of a chicken getting a similar fate (I made him turn around for that "preparation").  He had a very sad face and I asked him what was wrong.  He told me "I don't want to go to a Chinese persons' house.  They will cut me up and eat me for dinner".  I quickly told him that Chinese people are very loving and don't eat children.  I told him that people, including our family, all around the world eat animals but he just never saw the preparation process before.  He understood and was a lot more at east.  Poor fella!  I'll never forget that day or his reaction.