the other white meat....

So Amanda and I, and anyone else at work who is interested, go to BBQ every Friday night at the same place. Well, actually, it was one place, but after going every Friday for two months, we showed up to find the place gutted, and now a bakery is in it's place. Anyway... we have a new place now and we have been going for a few weeks. Every time we go, I see people eating this one kind of meat that I could not quite tell what it was. Last time we went, I described it to he waiter/owner (who speaks pretty good English) and we come to learn that it is pig intestines. He told us his restaurant was famous in the area for this dish. I don't know if this is true, but I always see people eating it, so perhaps.
After getting through the language barrier and finding out what this is, he proceeds to bring us some to try... oh dear lord.... it did not look good. It comes as a tube, no less, and he cuts it into bite size pieces with a pair of scissors right over the grill. After grilling that up, he brought out yet another dish to try-cow stomach. I thought I would die.... I tried both. Actually, neither one had too much flavor to it. They both had a very fatty, very chewy consistency. It wasn't gross tasting, just felt gross to chew. I can't say that I would ever want to eat it again. I'll just stick with my grilled beef please!



This is the pig intestine. Notice the round tube... yup, it looks just like your intestines.


The top part of the grill is our beef. The bottom part is the cow stomach and pig intestines grilling away.


ewww......


This is the owner of the restaurant. Very nice guy. After we went one time, he remembered exactly what we wanted to order and he remembered our names!