Street Sushi: Would You Dare to Eat It?

Beijing's roving street eats are at best cheap, satisfying and unhealthy. At worst you might encounter fake oil, rancid ingredients ... followed by a crisis summit at the "oval office". But most of us will wolf-down a couple of chuan'r or a jianbing from time to time - Sanlitun at 2am, for example. But would you eat crab roe sushi rolls from this lady?

OK, I bottled it and went for the kimchee rolls (RMB 6) - a hefty portion and the rice wasn't too bad. She has roast duck, ham, eel, tuna, (from a can I think) and a few other ingredients in a polystyrene cooler.

She told me folks can find her at the corner of Xisi Nandajie and Yangrou Hutong (that's just south of Xisi subway station on Line 4) every day in the morning and afternoon, and that she is indeed a local Beijing ren. Before I got to pose any radiation-related questions, and enquire if she sources her wares from Tokyo's Tsukiji Market, she got spooked and cycled away, fearing the the dreaded chuan ban on patrol. So ... a welcome addition to Beijing's street food scene? I say you go girl.