Finished the list

The list still contained a few less-than-common foods that needed to be consumed. Mission: accomplished!

The Red Pearl had snails and bull frogs in stock, so yes, they have been consumed. Correction. Bull FRAGS! XD


Small, but oh so tasty.


This nice eel also needed a purpose in life, and so, it has been consumed.


And boy, was it fresh. The pic is terrible because I was trying to sneak a shot of the guy behind the counter, and digital zoom sucks, LOL. He wrapped it up all nice and then *WHACK!* It was a very, very fresh eel. (That's someone else's giant squid to the left)


But this wasn't quite enough. There was goat to be had.


And these rose Lassi were umm, interesting!


It was a good food night.

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Mmm, sushi.

Okay so Sushi is not strange food to me. At all. Delicious, yes; but strange, no. But it's strange to a lot of people. I was really proud of my friend from work who went out to eat dinner with me on Friday night because she tried the baby squid! And, she liked it!!



I was also particularly impressed with the smoked salmon. I have never seen a sashmi this thick before.

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Pics

Since I forgot to take a pic of the baby octopus sushi last time, here are some from Thursday night. Unfortunately this time I forgot the pic of the escargo. hehehehe

Okay so the photo quality sucks, but what do you expect from a camera phone at night in a dimly lit restaurnt? It's the content that counts. And it was delicious.

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Chicken & Alligator Soup

So, I decided to try something different today (surprise!!! lol) for lunch. They had "Chicken & Alligator Soup" on the menu at lunch. How could I not try it!? About the most "bizarre" item I've seen on the menu yet. So, I got there and was slightly disappointed: it was actually "Chicken & Alligator Gumbo." So, really it just tasted like gumbo. And I could not discern which meat was alligator and which was chicken since most of it had fallen apart.



All in all, it was still good. Even better left over tonight with my red beans & rice.

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Yay more Asian-inspired food lol

Okay, so David came over today to hang out. We decided to make lunch (and later, dinner) and well, most of what's in my pantry right now came from the Asian market, LOL. I'm sure that's no surprise if you've read any other posts in this blog. I swear, I am in love with that place...

So, for lunch we made a stir-fry. I forgot to take a pic of it! I bought a bunch of canned veggies at the market because they're cheaper to buy a big can there, than a tiny one at the regular grocery store. So it had bamboo, mushrooms, water chestnuts, and fresh onion. Served with some stir-fry noodles boiled on the side. And for the meat: chicken and pork cooked in hoisen/soy/peanut sauce, with a shot of Sriracha (Thai hot sauce). Very tasty! I don't know what all else he put in it. Hey, the man can cook OK?

I was inspired by the idea of something I made for dinner earlier this week. I wanted something to go with my awesome crazy noodles so I took chicken and coated it in hoisen & soy, and cooked it with bacon. This soy is not like the stuff you get at the regular grocery, either. It's thick. It's black soy sauce (wow, 3.25 online. Cost me $1.69 :D). "Black soy sauce contains caramel and sugar so that it has a slightly sweet taste and is darker and thicker then thin soy sauce." I chose it among the many brands because it had a dragonfly on the label.... XD but also because it looked really authentic. And I made a great choice.

Okay, so for dinner we pulled out one of my many soup packets I bought. This one: Hot and Sour. It smelled like ASS. (I am not exaggerating. It literally did!) We added some other things to it. He cooked some chicken with some stuff in the sauce and it really added to the soup flavor, which was surprisingly tasty despite the smell, ROFL. Among the add-ins were Shitake mushrooms (rather ironic considering what the soup smelled like...).


Yes, I take pictures of like, everything lately... I just love camera phones...

Oh... almost forgot. Those strange looking things floating in the soup are wontons, hehehe. Pork filled. ^_^

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Twitter

Hehe, so I decided to start using Twitter.com last week. Yesterday, I actually had something interesting to post to it - it was about my previous post, our Adventurous Foods day. Thought this was pretty cool: the folks who manage the Bizarre Foods show started tracking me on Twitter after posting that. hehe!

So hey, as a result of that, I discovered this, in case anyone else might be interested:
http://twitter.com/bizarrefoods
Updates from Bizarre Foods about upcoming shows, etc., on Twitter. :D

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Strange Food Day

So, I spent the day yesterday hanging out with David and Sarah, and we watched Bizarre Foods for so long that we decided we had to get out and have our very own food adventure. The place we wanted to eat at was closed for another hour & a half, WAH. But we found in the phone book an Asian market & restaurant. Wow, I've never been to an Asian market, so I was totally in heaven for a while as we browsed before going over to eat! We wanted, of course, to order wacky stuff. They were out of a couple things, including snails! We settled on Crispy Squid, and Clams. Okay squid is just like calamari only bigger pieces so that's not too weird, but oh-so-delicious it was!!! I couldn't believe how delicious the clams were either. Wow!!!!! I want more..... We also ordered their Hot-and-Sour soup and it was soooo much better than you would get at a standard Chinese restaurant. The individual ingredients all had such flavor, especially the pork meat. I bought a basket full of goodies from the store afterwards too, hehe. It was hard to not shop at the Hello Kitty stand....

On to the next! We wanted to go by the Indian restaurant and order the goat, but it was further away than another thought: sushi. Again, not too un-standard fare, but we went for the baby octopus. I've had it once before and it was awful, but theirs was simply scrumptious!!! Evidentially we all have a fond spot for foods that make other people cringe. I ordered pickled bamboo just to see what it was like, and actually really loved it... it tasted great with the Katsuo (bonito). Pieces of fish in its own sauce. Extremely fishy, and they don't often have it in. It would have been a bit much alone but blended so great with the bamboo. We also got a couple other rolls to fill up on: their Super Crunch roll is the best I have ever had. And some martinis to wash it all down with, because they had a most delicious Blueberry, made with puree, and I have a thing for blueberries!

We had to end the adventure there because we were too full, lol. But we went home and after a while, we got snacky again. So we decided to try the Shark Fin soup. NOT delicious. I think the cats would eat it, rofl!!! However the Crab Chips we got to eat with it were really good! ^_^ lol they really are chips with crab meat in them. Potato starch is the main ingredient, so I guess it's a potato chip. The texture made me think of a rice cake at first, but it actually tasted good, rofl.

We ended the day with a nice cup of green tea (from the market of course) with honey and amaretto along with some almond Pocky I got. Mmmm, I like Bizarre Food day.

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