Yes, cicadas. The brand new teachers sure were plunged into the deep end of Chinese cuisine from the get go. Beside the cicadas is a container with dried ice, that’s purely decorative.
Next to the pumpkin is, gulp, a chicken’s foot. I went to lunch with my first year students and they ordered. It’s the first time I’ve tried this delicacy. Doubt I’d order them again, but if someone else does, I know I can partake and live to tell the tale.