Thursday, November 15, 2012
Restaurants (Literal) food porn on Buford Highway
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I'm squeamish about eating some body parts - like this skewered ox penis (foreground). I forced myself to eat one recently at Bei Jing Kabobs. I'm not sure it's really ox. As everyone knows, oxtail soup in America is almost always made with a cow tail.
An ox is a castrated bull. I wasn't even sure at first if the penis I was munching on was a section or the whole thing. (A friend suggested it might be "a grower, not a shower.") Of course, it turned out to be a section.
Like the two lamb kabobs in the rear of the photo above, the penis was seasoned with cumin and some hot chili oil. It's pretty amazing how popular the penis of many animals is with dogs and human beings.
I'll explain the reason I had to eat the penis in my next "Grazing" column.
I also ordered this plate of sliced pig ear. Now, I've eaten a good bit of pig ears. Years ago, there was a place on English Avenue downtown that sold fried pig-ear sandwiches. They were way tasty. And I've eaten pig ear that was part of various ethnic cuisines. Bei Jing's menu described its ears as spicy, but they were nothing of the kind. They were tasteless and required a ton of hot sauce. The super-rubbery texture didn't help.
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