Death Kava by Leslie
February 19th, 2009 9:00 PMHow does one eat uncertainty? By walking through a sketchy neighborhood full of shower shows and live nudes to get lunch at a Dim Sum place in which there are no signs in English and the woman behind the counter only screams at you in Chinese. The experience of being in there is frightening enough, but eating mystery food purposely chosen for its lack of appeal. Well, that took some courage.
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Voted for the integration of Do Not Want into a caption and gratuitously capturing the event on a digital medium.
Whatever those foods were, I hope they came with warning labels.
You know, they mave have. I just couldn't read them!
if you had gone to a Real dim sum restaurant and spat out/gagged on the food I'd have to call you Disrespectful as well as Someone with No Appreciation for probably some of the Best Food on Earth.
However, you clearly found the SHADIEST, MOST HEALTH-CODE DEFYING dim sum restaurant this side of the Pacific. i love dim sum, and i wouldn't touch that dim sum with a ten foot pole. i commend you for both possibly your idiocy and your bravery.
And believe me, as a Chinese person I can tell you there were probably a million more things served there with crazier ingredients that you could have been afraid to eat.
I'm pretty much unable to do this task - when prepared correctly I highly enjoy: frog's legs, jellyfish, chicken feet, fish eyes (they're good luck!), sea urchin, thousand year eggs, and a plethora of other things that and incredible number of people would never agree to eat. and heck, as a Mexican, there are probably a lot more animal parts i could add to that list. however, i've never tried head cheese, and probably wouldn't be too against it anyway.
also, the filling of the pastry you ate was probably sweet red bean, that's its natural color. it is a real joy if you actually find a restaurant that makes it well.
I would just like to point out that I did not spit anything out. I finished the bites I took. No disrespect was intended towards the general category of food. The particular pieces I took were, I think, not exemplary of what dim sum should be. Hence the challenge.
Your list of food makes me feel wimpy! I don't think I could handle chicken feet. And thousand year eggs sound a little scary. Are those the ones you bury for a few months? Eeep! Gah, now there are so many foods I'm mildly afraid of that I think I should do this again.