Corn straight from the farm is a real treat. What surprised me is that my wife's mom just brought us some corn from a farm - this is late November, in a cold weather state - and it's still very good. Not quite the same as September corn, but still worth eating.
Just have to walk outside for fresh galangal.
The only place here where it is actually illegal to have a dog is in a food preparation area, but most restaurant, pub and shop managers still won't let them in. There have been several instances where they won't let guide dogs in either (although they are exempt), and there was one hell of a fuss when our local supermarket ejected an ex-serviceman with his PTSD dog.
I'm pretty certain every cafe or restaurant we went into in Paris had a poodle or two, in the restaurant. Didn't bother me.
Doesn't bother me either, unless they are covered in mud or wet and shaking themselves everywhere. I've only ever once complained about dogs being in a restaurant kitchen because when the waitress came out with our food the dogs followed her and she was stroking them - dog fur flying everywhere.
Confit duck
We once bought a takeaway from a local Chinese restaurant. The beef curry looked strange. I gave it to the GSD I had at the time, and she wouldn't eat it. The restaurant was closed when Food Standards found a GSD their freezer. On another occasion, a friend and his fiancée went to a Chinese for dinner. She choked on a bone and had to be rushed to hospital. The surgeon said it was a cat bone.
The problem is that the Chinese will eat anything that grows. I have eaten horsemeat in Germany and the only time I had meat in the village in Greece the donkey had disappeared. I drew the line at bat meat which a work colleague gave me to try. You can buy all sorts of strange things online in the UK that we wouldn't normally eat, so there must be a market for them.