That's great. My father's father was a Missionary in China in the '20's, and my Dad remembers having to eat some weird things, 1,000 year eggs, pickled eel and so on. He had to eat them, but his older sister didn't. because she was a girl. I
remember as a kid my father always said how he wished he had some candied ginger, it was absolutely great. Well his best friend "Uncle Hamm" went to visit China and brought Dad back some candied ginger and he gave us some(all seven of us) my gosh, that was the most awful stuff I had ever tasted, it tasted like soap. Dad would have a piece of that every day after dinner, and with a smile on his face he would ask us if we wanted some. Needless to say we never tried it again. Nevertheless, he was probably the healthier for it.