Thursday, March 22, 2007

Adventurous Eating in China pt 3

Our next eating adventure was at a very nice restaurant, whose name I don't know, in Guangzhou. When our food arrived it all looked very yummy. There was no mistaking the large silkworm pods in one dish, but at this point and with every culinary adventure thereafter, I figured once you've eaten solid blood cakes, there really isn't too much you can do that is worse, so I dug in. We also had another dish of what looked to be just a rice dish, but on closer inspection was actually rice with cooked rice worms. Additional plates contained fish lips, crab eggs, and snails. The fish lips were a bit tricky since they were actually the fish face bones and eyes, not lips as you generally think of them. I admit, I admitted defeat when it came to chomping on a fish eyeball, but Mason ate his with no issue. Mason remarked that the silkworms tasted a lot like peanuts and he was right. They were very good! I couldn't much taste the rice worms, but they were not bad. I would eat it all again, and next time, I would try the fish eyes!

Fish Lips

Rice Worms

Silk Worms

Fish Eyes

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