Spotted at ShangXiaJiu, Guangzhou (上下九）:
the famed Exploding Pissing Beef Balls (爆浆撒尿牛丸)
Cost: RMB10/bowl
Number of Balls: 6 with accompanying soup
Taste: 3.5/5
Novelty: 4/5
Explosive impact: mild
Explosive Pissing Beef Balls were first featured in Stephen Chow’s (周星驰)
God of Cookery (食神) movie in 1996.
*At this point, I wonder how many of you readers pause, reflect and sigh with me.
Yes it’s been 13 years*
A short synopsis of the movie:
… gang warfare to see which vendor could sell the two best-selling dishes: beef balls and “pissing” shrimp. Chow manages to unite the two rival vendors by combining the two dishes into a new dish, “Pissing Beef Balls”, which the three of them could sell together. It becomes a huge success, and the vendors convince Chow to enroll in a culinary school in order to reclaim the title he lost, but not before he discovers that Turkey idolized Chow as the “God of Cookery”, and received her scarred appearance due to her devotion.
The success of the “Pissing Beef Balls” alarms Bull, the new “God of Cookery”, who arranges for Chow to be assassinated on the way to culinary school…
Excerpts of the relevant, explosive and pissing part of the movie here:
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i took some pics of snacks i eating in shang xia jiu,i can remember their delicious taste ,but don’t remember their cost. it could be a review in here?
ok.
here i am!~~
i ate scorpion there last friday…
taste like cheap patato chips….lol
This was the movie that got me hooked on Stephen Chow. I remember watching it on VCD on my notebook in the basement of my then-girlfriend’s house in Toronto. Afterwards, I made her take me to a Hong Kong movie rental place and rented all his movies I could find. Curiously enough, it was also on that trip that I discovered Japanese people made some crazy porn.
very funny! but i will never buy it.
@ Dear Junde,
Quoted: *At this point, I wonder how many of you readers pause, reflect and sigh with me. Yes it’s been 11 years*
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I am afraid to ask if you wrote this blog 2 years ago.. How come you said it’s been 11years, not 2009-1996=13 years???
@Dear Jay,
Did you mean that you were corrupted by Stephen Chow indirectly? ha..
Rgds,
JOJOarez
is it very famous? how come i never heard of it?
can i see my face here now?
ummm…..爆漿牛丸???可以打卓球嗎??ooops….Must i write in English here?
Candy Carol, I can only see your vest here..
@jojoarez, yes. haha, 13 years. thanks for the correction. you are old and wise ;p
@Junde,
I just wanted to prove that I still have sharp eyes.
They are not degenerating as what Jay said.
P.S: The OLD is not a compliment. I would rather you say jojoarez you ar e mature and wise.
Where is my sexy cartoon head? Not connected automatically?
i think such meat balls deeply routed in many Chinese food critics’ minds and hence set the benchmark of the taste of meat ball, it should be like a bouncing table tennis
great find! gotta check it out, i loved the movie.
omg the mandarin dub is just frikin awful!