Floating Market

1. A floating market is a market where goods are sold from boats. Originating in times and places where water transport played an important role in daily life, most floating markets operating today mainly serve as tourist attractions, and are chiefly found in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

 
The floating market usually sells many types of tropical vegetables, fruits,etc. from a small boat. Produce sold can include Malacca grape, Chinese grapefruit, mangoes, bananas, and coconut. This is also the costliest market.

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What is Shufa

 Chinese calligraphy, also called Chinese brush calligraphy or “shufa”, is a high art form unique to China. Many Asian cultures have originated their own calligraphy styles, but China’s is unequaled because of its beauty, grace, and history. The artistic value of the calligraphy is found in the rhythm and lines. It is an outlet for the artist to practice self-discipline and concentration as well as release his innermost thoughts and emotions. Many Chinese regard it on a level above music, paintings, and statues, and equal to poetry as a form of self-expression.

Today Chinese calligraphy is once again a countrywide discipline and art-form highly appreciated and sought across the world. Anyone can practice it and all that is required is a simple set including: brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Calligraphy is often combined with landscape paintings. Artists paint beautiful backgrounds of mountains, lakes, trees, and bamboo and then write proverbs, sayings, or poems in calligraphy in the foreground. This is where the term "calligraphy painting" comes from. 

Hinamatsuri (Girl's Day or Dolls Day)

Hinamatsuri is celebrated each year on March 3. Platforms covered with a red carpet are used to display a set of ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian Period. 

The top tier holds two dolls, known as imperial dolls. These are the Emperor holding a ritual baton and Empress holding a fan. The second tier holds three court ladies. The third tier holds five male musicians. Each holds a musical instrument except the singer, who holds a fan. Two ministers may be displayed on the fourth tier. The fifth tier, between the plants, holds three helpers or samurai as the protectors of the Emperor and Empress. 

Families generally start to display the dolls in February and take them down immediately after the festival. Superstition says that leaving the dolls past March 4 will result in a late marriage for the daughter

Some bizarre Asian Foods

1. Chicken Feet

Chicken feet are a part of the chicken that is cooked in many Asian countries such are China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam. Most of the edible tissue on the feet consists of skin and tendons, with no muscle. This gives the feet a distinct texture different from the rest of the chicken's meat. 

2. Fugu

"Fugu" (blowfish) is famous even among the Japanese as a high class food item. Because it contains poison in its internal organs, only chefs with a special license are allowed to prepare it. 
3. Sannakji (live octopus tentacles)

Sannakji is a a small octopus that has been cut into small pieces and served immediately, usually lightly seasoned with sesame and sesame oil. The nakji pieces are usually still squirming on the plate. It can also be served whole.
4. Blood Pudding

Blood Pudding ot tiết canh  is a traditional dish of blood and cooked meat in northernVietnamese cuisine. The most popular is tiết canh vịt,made from raw duck blood and duck meat. The dish is made from fresh blood from pork, chicken or duck that mixed with meat and herbs. Also, blood pudding is usually served cold with a texture like jelly in order to reduce the strong smell of the fresh blood.