Those guys are most definitely nice, and overly generous. The first thing the asked me, apart from "Hey, are you Ronnie?" was "Do you want to eat a horse tonight?"
So we headed to the famed bia hoi via cyclo om (When in Vietnam, do as the Viet do). The menu was fascinating, it had porcupine, dear (note the spelling), rabbit, doves and frogs. However, the clincher was they had weasel on their menu (with citronella!) Ah, my Dilbert instincts were jumping for joy at the thought of skewering weasels.
The following day was no less of a test for my stomach as we had snake. Eww. Snakes definitely rank high (if not the highest) in my Eew list, and eating them definitely sent it off the charts. The skin was gummy (ugh), but the meat was fishy - a muscular one.
That was good, my favorite was the porcupine, while the least ones were the horse, it had a strange racetrack-aftertaste, and the snake. At least there was something that threw me off the safe path for this trip.
5 talkbacks:
hey. snakes? eww.. having one on my shoulders in Residence Inn, Tagaytay (remember those souvenir-photo shoots) already is giving me goosebumps, much more eat it?
say, did you tag along some of the production team of fear factor? :D
Hehehe. Hindi naman. :D But my hosts were the adventurous type, and I was more or less the opposite - so I was very glad that they took me out of my comfort zone.
well, we have this exotic restaurant in San Fernando Pampanga. maybe you should try this dried insects they call "kamaru" as starter. they taste yummy :)
Ah, locusts.... Never tried, but I've heard. My dad's from Pampanga as well.
What's the name of the resto? I drop in SF around once a month.
Everybody's Cafe. Just near the entrance of Unisite Subdivision in San Fernando where my high school alma mater is. :)
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