A Christmas Story in China

Today we all went down to the cafeteria to see what was for dinner. There was rice (no surprise there) and cooked cabbage. At first I thought that was all there was when the chef (we always call him Spencer) pulled out this whole cooked chicken. You could see it's legs, wings, body, and head. We weren't sure what he was doing at first but then he pulls out this HUGE butcher knife, grabs the chicken's head, and chops it off! Right before our poor innocent eyes. He thought it was so funny that these little while American girls were freaking out over a chicken head. We were more freaking out at the poor decapitated chicken. It reminded me of "A Christmas Story" when they go to the Chinese restaurant for dinner and their duck is "smiling" at them. I guess the Chinese take care of "smiling" animals all the same way :). Needless to say, none of us took the head to eat...