China trip cont
Went out to dinner today after leaving work early. First stop is to stop at the hotel to drop off the work bag then catch a cab. Trouble is, how to tell the cabbie where to go? I take pics of buildings so I simply bring it up on the phone and show it to the cab. The food store is sort of located near the center of town so I always end up starting my adventure there.
an interesting vehicle was parked out front today:
Afteward, went for a little walk about. Usually sniffing the air to see where the good food is being cooked.
My walk took me by a very large middle school. Lots of bikes and they're unlocked!
Remember I told you that water runs through the town that starts in the mountain, not too far from our work site. Remember the pics of the broken dam? Well, people use this water to wash their cars with buckets and a wash rag.
As I was walking around, I caught a whiff of something tasty. The place looked disreputable so I had to go in and saw this giant menu on the wall.
Oh s***
I see in that they have skewers in the menu picture so this is a barbque joint. My mouth is watering at the aroma but I don't know what the heck I'm smelling - dog? sheep? cow? chicken? yak?
I'm gesturing to the lady as to what animal are they cooking up. Patrons are mesmerized by this alien who just walked into the joint. Based on the appearance of the joint, I'm guessing it's strictly a local place. Not much tourists come in here I'm guessing.
Me: Woof, woof pointing at the skewer picture on the menu?
Her: no, with a funny look on her face.
Me: clucking like a chicken.
her: no (trying not to laugh at the silly brown American.)
Me: trying to figure out what a Yak sounds like. Oh forget it.
Me: Baaaaaahaaaaaaaaa (goat/lamb/sheep)? They all sounds the same, damn it.
Her: yes
Me: Mooooooooooo (cow)?
Her: yes
Cool, let me have some Baaaaahaaaa yo yo mama and I sit down. A guy comes over and starts talking to me. WTF does he want now? He is pointing at his body - side, stomach, throat?????? Oh s***, he wants to know what part of the Lamb/sheep?
I just put my left hand at his neck and the right hand near his testicles. I want EVERYTHING in between. Did you see the size of those dinky skewers? I'm a hungry American. I saw a cow penis two nights ago and I ain't going there.
As the meat is cooking, he starts to bring me a pot of rice. NOOOOOOOOOO, I'm riced out. Get that thing away from me. I look around and see something that looks like bread so I point to it. He walks over and grabs it from the other table and gives it to me. Well, all righty then, I'm having somebody else's bread then. Right on brotha. It was a wheat bread dough of some sort and it was GOOD.
He pours me a boiling hot pot of something - looks greenish with some floaters in the bottom. I taste it - not really tea like. Dandelion root extract? I dunno, I keep drinking it.
The skewers are showing up and each set look different. I eat it and like it. The texture is different from one set to the next.
So, I'm eating:
Stomach lining on the far left. Kinda chewy. Not super tasty to me.
Kidney in the middle. Kind of soft, fatty and tasty.
Side meat on the right. Usual meaty texture and super tasty.
35 skewers later, I'm outta there and headed back to the hotel. I paid the check of 43 yens and headed out. I flag down a taxi, show her the picture of the front of my hotel and was on my way.
That concludes the events for today.
