Monday, September 29, 2008

Eat that?

We've been perfectly delighted with our menus on this trip, even going so far as to comment that we must have very authentic Chinese food at home because so much tastes the same!


Enter the preserved eggs. We came across these little gems yesterday morning at breakfast.


At lunch yesterday, we were introduced to sheep's spine, a local delicacy where you don a plastic glove to literally break the spine in half and suck out the bone marrow. Oh and of course you can also enjoy the shards of flesh hanging off the bones. Yum.


Our last course at lunch was lotus root. It looked scarier than it tasted and was almost like an orange flavored radish.
Yesterday we took 3 pepto bismols.

3 comments:

Lisa and Kim said...

Oh this looks and sound so yummy! Sounds like you are getting the true cultural experience there with the food! I am glad to hear that you aren't starving...and I am so impressed with how you are trying all this interesting stuff. Can't wait to hear more details. Take care! Kimmie and Lisa

Mom said...

You are truly YiaYia's grand daughter!!! A big love and enjoyment for her and her Mother was to suck the bone marrow out of the lamb bones! Amazingly disgusting!!! But it is a delicacy in Greece also. All of this eating....and eating????
When does the shopping come in???!!
Black LV, remember?? :) just kiddin. so glad that you are having such a fun time and trying everything. Keep going with all of the new adventures! Luv u and miss you lots, Mom

Anonymous said...

Wow, what a wonderful cuisine, eh? I've heard that bone marrow is quite nutritious. Hunter-gatherers around 10,000 BCE loved it! lol

Uh oh...don't fall asleep with that pepto bismol in your mouth! You know what happens the morning after. :)
-Anthony