Hi FloPo!

So, I can deduce that the running through the dilapadated houses are the IC.

The gross food challenge looks like the IC to me.. You can see the Immunity Idol at the bottom right of this picture:

And we got balut and dumplings? Balut is, of course, the duck embryo that we've seen in Palau, and is a common snack here in the Philippines (I myself enjoy the texture of the feathers). But the dumplings?

WOOOHOOOO, Xwraith! You are RIGHT!!! GOOD EYE! That is the ole II, right there next to Jiffy's right! So, that's clear then. I will stand corrected and predict that the FLongs will win the RC, the running through the vacant buildings, while the JHu's will win the Gross Food(once again, thanks Courtney!)

James will be the kidnappee, sharing the scroll with Todd, who in exchange will share all of the clues with him....he will find it at FL and go back to JH and find it there too. I bet he'll give the one at FL to Todd at some time or another.

And we get more clues to what the gross food will be:

Balut from the previews
Dumplings (I'm guessing the gross thing here will be the filling)
Baby turtles

And from the CBS website:
Chicken heart
A thousand-year-old egg (which isn't gross at all, really)

xwraith, thanks for the great info. Don't take this the wrong way but I'd have to decline an invitation for snacks!

Well, being Asian and being raised in a third-world country, I guess I'm just used to eating what a lot of Westerners would call "gross". We have a saying here in the Philippines that here, no part of a chicken goes to waste: meat, feet, guts, blood, and even the "fan" of roosters. We have dishes consisting mostly of pigs' blood, cow tongue, cow eyeballs, etc. And to be really honest, they're not at all that bad!

Ugh and Ewww! Would my pet deer eat that stuff?

LAST EDITED ON 10-20-07 AT 08:50 PM (EST)

Thanks Survivor Phoenix:

ONE CASTAWAY FINDS THE HIDDEN IMMUNITY IDOL BUT A RIVAL TRIBE MATE BECOMES AWARE OF THE DISCOVERY AND CUTS A DEAL TO BENEFIT THEM BOTH, ON "SURVIVOR: CHINA," THURSDAY, OCT. 25,

ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK

"That's Love, Baby! It Makes You Strong!" - One castaway finds the Hidden Immunity Idol at their camp but a rival tribe mate discovers they have it and cuts a deal to benefit them both. At the Reward Challenge, the castaways dine on unusual Chinese delicacies, on SURVIVOR: CHINA, Thursday, Oct. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Regarding the RC, which is the one with the Daws going through the abandoned buildings...

From TDT:

Again, based on the challenge board, the newly shuffled tribes will compete in a challenge called "Search and Decode," with the winners getting something called the "Ultimate Experience." At least we're pretty sure they'll give that to the winners, and not the losers. Hard to say.
A test run for this challenge was shown in one of Probst's YouTube videos. It's a puzzle challenge, in which the contestants have to search through various rooms in a building for clues. As Probst notes, it's essentially a rehash of the first Survivor season's Ep6 RC, "Abandoned Barracks."

From TV Guide Magazine, this week's Survivor:

"Tonight's reward: the "ultimate" bathrooom experience, (which we're guessing means indoor plumbing and two-ply toilet paper - ooh la la!)"

{I added the parentheses since that's not a spoiler}

Thanks to Survivor Fever:

This promo is interestingly all about James. It appears as though Todd has just shared some very good news with James, and he is reaching down to show him something....either a clue, clues, or the actual idol itself. James clearly is elated. Then we have the shots of PG, representing the "head" of JH. Will she see something in James' possession later???

Can he bury the plot against him? Well, that is the question!

LAST EDITED ON 10-22-07 AT 10:02 AM (EST)

The stack of bricks here looks like it's from Zhuan Hu's camp (the ones Dave was building the fire pit from). Does Fei Long also have one, or is Todd the kidnappee instead of James?

That looks like the stairs leading down to the water at the Fei Long camp to me.

I'm not sure who came first hosting games, you or Tribe, but you are both nefarious! - CTGirl

In the clips with James and Todd, there is something in James left hand.

And it appears to me that James is dominating the conversation from the body language. Todd seems to be receiving information or considering something that James is saying.

So this is James showing Todd his newly found ZH HI? and proposing a plan?

After last week, he has to feel like he maybe next, so it would make sense for him to be actively recruiting allies, trying to figure out how best to use his HI (if he has it) to his advantage, and fomenting rebellion against sworn enemies PG and Jaime.

...or perhaps James showing Todd his newly found FeiLong HII...(HII, numero uno for James, perhaps?)...

or perhaps James punching Todd friendly like as in "Thanks Todd you just saved my life in this game, I will be true to you forever!" Todd finds the Fei Long HII and gives it to James in exchange for loyalty and a vote. Todd can't be sure that the ZH idol hasn't been found so he also tells James about that, perhaps Todd makes the deal, save yourself with this one but if you get the other one we share it with the alliance and whoever is the target.

I'm not sure who came first hosting games, you or Tribe, but you are both nefarious! - CTGirl