Posted by Bone at February 29th, 2008

Here’s a list of unusual (to me) food that I’ve eaten over the past few days:

Abalone (a type of sea snail) - Delicious, even if I get the feeling it was imitation abalone since the restaurant I had it in wasn’t very expensive.

Roasted pigeon - Not bad, tasted a bit too gamey, not the best quality perhaps.

Chicken gizzards (marinated in soy) - A lot better than I expected, reminded me of liver.

Pigs ear (marinated in soy) - I didn’t think I’d like it, but it was actually pretty interesting.

Duck tongue - I couldn’t get a whole one down, the bone in it was too large to break up and swallow, and found the tongue itself to be lacking in flavour and too jelly-like. Fail!

Shredded pork rice sheets - So glutinous Hannah would have probably died walking into the restaurant, rice sheets seem to be rice flour and water (or whatever it is they use to make rice flour noodles) spread out really thinly and steamed and then rolled around shredded barbeque pork. Pretty tasty. Oh, and this was for breakfast?!

Calamari - I got spiced salted calamari at a street stall in Macau for HK$10, it was out of this world, so much better than what you’ll find in the UK.

Spring roll with unidentifiable filling - no idea what was in it (I order food by simply pointing it then holding up a single digit when possible), but man did it taste good!

There’s probably other stuff I’m forgetting like all the little buns and cakes I keep picking up from bakeries between meals (they’re about HK$5.50 for three of them so I get to try lots of different fillings), but since I usually have no idea what it is I’m eating in those cases I can’t really write much about it, as the spring roll instance above proves.