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| Is that a feeder bunny I see on the right? |
On Lily's last night we went out to Taipei's most touristy night market, Snake Alley, where people go to admire and/or eat snakes.
Just like my Uncle Indiana, I'm not a big fan of the snake. But I managed to cowboy up and ingest some.
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| Snakes are about as delicious as they are cute. |
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Lily one-upped me and had two bites. |
The meat was icky. Very chewy. Not flavorful. One bite was enough. Our meal also came with a shot of snake blood, snake bile and snake poison.
The "poison" and the "bile" just tasted like booze, so I suspect there was just a tiny bit, if any, of the actual snake stuff in it.
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| The rest of the table passed on "bile." |
The blood was disgusting, and by far my least favorite part of the meal. It had some sort of herbs in it.
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| Dinner on Display! |
It was a quirky way to top off a great weekend with Lily. She's somewhere over the Pacific now, bound for Los Angeles. I was sad to see her go.
Videos of all the snake-eating tomfoolery are posted on my YouTube.
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2 comments:
Ewww-ewww-ewww!
I've eaten snake - fried rattlesnake to be exact. It was slightly chewy and I think the crunchy-coating is where the flavor came from. I could take it or leave it. BUT SNAKE BLOOD, BILE, AND ... POISON?? No thank you. Silly thrill-seeking Taiwanese.
snake-ah, snake-ah, snake-ah, snake-ah!
Thanks for the hilarity and not the H :)
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