During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, inspect a tray of live crabs. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.