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mayoraasei) wrote2009-01-22 10:02 pm
mayoraasei) wrote2009-01-22 10:02 pm
eek
Yumcha is just not the same after you've done anatomy.
I mean I've eaten 牛雜 before (best translated as "Cow Whatevers", although actually referring to innards LOL). See, I have to call them innards, because it wasn't just entrails. I mean I've eaten entrails before...and I used to, once upon a time, quite like cow intestines.
But last Sunday went with parents for Yumcha and gwaah...the 牛雜 that came was like a bowl of specimens from the anatomy lab. It's like...wow, I can see the small intestines...the colon...the stomach (and hey, it even still has its rugae!)...and two giant chunks of cow LUNG. Like what the heck. I mean it might have been liver (it did rather taste like liver) and I'm not quite familiar with cow anatomy to know how big a cow liver is meant to be, but it was bit more lobular than what I'd expect of a liver. And the fact that there seemed to be structures that looked rather like the hilar vessels, just smaller. So they were probably bronchi.
There was even the mesenteric fat. Or maybe it's called peritoneal fat. And is that the peritoneum I'm now eating?
I normally quite like chicken kidneys (giblets) but that's because you can't tell it actually IS a kidney.
Wow...that dish totally turned me off food for the rest of the meal. Do not like the thought of conducting an anatomy lesson while eating. Gwaah.
(Incidentally, I've found myself staring at pork spine and thinking..."hey that looks almost exactly like a human lumbar spine but bigger and thicker and the zygapophyseal joints are at different angles" before I facepalm.)
I mean I've eaten 牛雜 before (best translated as "Cow Whatevers", although actually referring to innards LOL). See, I have to call them innards, because it wasn't just entrails. I mean I've eaten entrails before...and I used to, once upon a time, quite like cow intestines.
But last Sunday went with parents for Yumcha and gwaah...the 牛雜 that came was like a bowl of specimens from the anatomy lab. It's like...wow, I can see the small intestines...the colon...the stomach (and hey, it even still has its rugae!)...and two giant chunks of cow LUNG. Like what the heck. I mean it might have been liver (it did rather taste like liver) and I'm not quite familiar with cow anatomy to know how big a cow liver is meant to be, but it was bit more lobular than what I'd expect of a liver. And the fact that there seemed to be structures that looked rather like the hilar vessels, just smaller. So they were probably bronchi.
There was even the mesenteric fat. Or maybe it's called peritoneal fat. And is that the peritoneum I'm now eating?
I normally quite like chicken kidneys (giblets) but that's because you can't tell it actually IS a kidney.
Wow...that dish totally turned me off food for the rest of the meal. Do not like the thought of conducting an anatomy lesson while eating. Gwaah.
(Incidentally, I've found myself staring at pork spine and thinking..."hey that looks almost exactly like a human lumbar spine but bigger and thicker and the zygapophyseal joints are at different angles" before I facepalm.)
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..but then, I feel disgusted when my dad orders stuff like that, even though I don't know any anatomy, so perhaps it's possible to be turned off anything.. *whimpers*
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So I always eat to about 70% full and leave room for dessert ♥
Incidentally I had mango pudding at yumcha recently and it was quite nice. I also like their mango pancake when they have it. And apricot tofu! Mwehehehe I like my dessert section ♥
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