Another freaking food post!

You can tell I am a fat man because most of my posts involve eating at some level.

So, to continue that trend. Here is the weird shit I have eaten this week:

Raw hamburger meat




Eaten last Saturday night. Mixed with a raw egg and seasonings. Not that bad. It was like an appetizer. Just enough to split amongst the four people at dinner and everyone have a mouthful.

I liken it to eating raw meatloaf. As if someone were going to make dinner, then was just too lazy to put it in the oven to cook. And, can't you die from eating raw burger meat?

Of course, now that I have eaten raw meat, I have the hunger.






Also that night, chicken bones. No meat, just the bones. Chew on em and eat the marrow out. I feel like a maniac doing that stuff. And you know what, not that tasty. No taste really. Just kind of crunchy and chewy. Eh.

Last night, went to a Korean restaurant. Had tail soup.



Yup, tail soup. Beef tail to be exact. The lady who owns the restaurant said she can't cook pig tail soup, smells too bad. Plus, pig tails, curly, gotta be hard to cook evenly.

Tail soup. The meat tasted pretty close to pot roast. And the soup part was really tasty. I just wish that I didn't know what I was eating here. Japanese (and Korean since that is what we were eating) is damned delicious, but it is made out of some revolting ingredients.

The part of the tail in the picture was pretty big, that must have been the part closest to the cow butt, hence no one eating it.

Here is part of an appetizer for the table. By the time I remembered my phone had a camera it had been pretty well picked over.


On this plate, going counter clockwise starting in the upper left is kimchi, which I thought a co-worker brought to Wells Fargo at one point, but this stuff didn't smell like her food did, so I am not sure what she had. Kimchi, delicious. Spiciest thing I have had in Japan yet, and I was loving it. Man do I miss spices.
Next is the ever yummy potato salad. Unfortunately this potato salad was a bit warm so I didn't partake too much.
Then there is the fish chunk nuggets. These were compacted fish meat, like pureed and mixed back together and pressed down into nugget form. Which means it was leftovers reconstituted to be edible. And they were pretty good too. I ate a bunch of these. I don't know if it was the nuggets or the sauce, or the fact that the alternative was tail soup, but I was going to town on those nuggets.
Top right is fish and beans combination.

Yup, more whole fish that I am eating. And me, a non-fish eater. Crunchy, fishy, beany, and tasty. (I need a thesaurus to find alternative ways to say something tasted good)

Our main course of the night was Pig spine.



There was a burner in the middle of the table and the spine dish was placed on there to keep it warm. That is a big thing in Japan too, big pots of food that is kept warm at the table and just pick from it for the next hour or so. So, pig spine. Or backbone I guess would be more appropriate, but I was told it was called spine. Broken up into two or three vertebrate sections and in a sauce with onions and greens. Yeah, giant pain in the ass. There was basically no meat on the backbone, just what was left on the backbone after the rest of the meat for other dishes was cut away. Thus you had to pick up the bone in one hand and use your chopsticks with the other to scrape the bits of meat off, or just pick it up and chew on the bone as best you can. Either way, giant pain in the ass. It was like eating pork crabs, too much work for too little meat. And I am not the biggest fan of pork either, so definitely not worth the effort for me.

The night was still fun though, especially when the owner kept serving me like I was either a king or a little kid, can't decide which she thought I was. Hey, whatever. Good for me.