They have rice at every single restaurant here. Rice at Wendy's, rice at KFC, rice at McDonalds. They also have McSpeghetti. And they don't call it McDonalds... they call it McDo. No, not pronounced "Mick Doo"... that's what I thought originally too. It's "Mack Doe", with a very sharp emphasis on the last syllable. Crazy Asians...
Yesterday we made poutine for some of the locals here... to give them a good taste of Canada. You know what I ate in return? Peanut Butter Stew. You know what was in it? Yeah, besides peanut butter. Guess. Nope, you're wrong! It was cow stomach lining. Big old pieces of cow tummy. It's a damn good thing I only had two helpings. Crazy Asians...
What other foods do they have? BBQ'd chick feet, popularly known as Adidas. They also take pig intestines and feed them over a stick, like a sock to one's foot, then BBQ them. Then there's Sisig. Sheila and I both tried this delicacy. It's ground up pork head with pig brain sauce. I, of course, had no idea that's what it was when I tried it. I felt a little sick after... but maybe that was the tequila. Either way, the important thing is Sheila threw it all back up in the cab on the way back to the hotel. Good times.
They actually eat balut here. That's the partially developed duck or chicken egg they make people eat on Fear Factor and Survivor. Most people like it, too. Everyone wants me to try it before I leave, but there is no way in hell. There's this little both in the mall where I work called Balut Eggspress, and what they do there, besides serve balut, is take day old chicks, skewer them, then deep fry the whole thing. That place stinks.
Hungry now?
