Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Turtle Soup and Black Bone Chicken Tea

I'm going to skip over a few things that happened and go out of order a tad because I don't have the photos to go along with them at the moment.

The weekend before last I went to this chinese food restaurant that I hadn't previously heard about after I saw their amazing menu online. It was full of a bizarre foodies favorites like duck tongue and feet, goose webs, black boned chicken, sharks fin and birds nest soup, thousand year old eggs, jellyfish, duck chin, turtle soup, conch, live shrimp, geoduck, sea cucumber, ostrich, fried milk, frog, beef tripe, eel and lion fish. Can you imagine my excitement??

I tried to order the black boned chicken, (which if you don't know is a chicken with all white feathers, black meat, black skin, black insides, and black bones) with conch meat soup. The waitress said they were out of that, so I settled for "black boned chicken and ginger soup served in a tea pot". I didn't realize until it was brought to me that it was, indeed, in a tea pot and not a very big one at that. The waitress also gave me a tea cup. You drink the broth of the chicken and ginger in the tea cup and then eat the chicken pieces from out of the pot. Mason ordered a small bowl of turtle soup and some squid. My chicken tea didn't fill me up so i ended up eating some of Mason's food and some of my daughter's fried rice dish. The black boned chicken tasted like, yes, chicken. The turtle was good but fatty, though it may have just been the piece I got and not the whole thing. The tea tasted like chicken broth with ginger flavoring, which is pretty much what it was. I imagine it'd be good for a cold though.



I can't wait to go back and try more things!

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