Yesterday evening saw an impromptu trip to Hua Xi Jie with George and two Canadian friends, Andrea and Lindsay. Both Andrea and Lindsay are leaving soon and are trying to do as many crazy things as possible before they leave! I’ve been to snake alley before, with my parents, but had never fully enjoyed the whole experience of eating snakes and everything entailed with such an endeavor. We scoured the alley trying to search out the best place to eat. Having the wonderful George to make inquiries for us, we decided not to eat at the place which appeared to show no mercy towards decapitating live tortoises with more brute force and malice than anything I have ever seen. Instead, we settled on a place just along from there.
The girls’ intention was to go the whole way and try everything that this damn snake had to offer. This included; the snake’s bile, blood, cum, and obviously the meat too. Thankfully we drew the line at not eating snake venom which is surely wrong on a number of levels.
The snake soup arrived first. This was not much of a challenge as I have tried this before and actually there is not much to eating snake at all. Devouring the soup unscathed it was time for the snake blood and bile filled with cum. When they arrived they looked like two shot glasses of some alcohol, actually it reminded me very much of the aftershock shots of old, the red and green varieties. This image was only compounded when I smelt them, vodka! Yes, vodka was the overriding smell of both of these concoctions.
To cut a long story short, down the hatch they both went (between all four of us of course) There was no taste other than alcohol and a slight taste of iron, which was of some relief. The taste of blood I could have handled, the taste of bile is another story altogether!
After this we went to another restaurant to eat raw shrimp. I must admit I was highly skeptical of the whole thing. Shrimp are cooked for a reason, raw shrimp just seemed wrong! The more humane explanation of what happens is that the shrimp are soaked in alcohol until they become ‘drunk’ then you can peel them and eat them. The more realistic view is that they are poisoned to the point of death in a bath of alcohol then you rip them to shreds whilst apparently still alive (to what extent I couldn’t really make out). Anyway, despite the dubious preparations, the actual taste of raw shrimp was absolutely delicious. In fact, I could have eaten a whole lot more and it is definitely something I would love to try again, good one George! Quite an interesting night all round.
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