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January 25, 2003 by Tien Chiu

roasted rat

Tastes like game–very, very, very dark meat. In places, much like chicken gizzard.

And now you know. 😉

Oh yeah, and chicken feet don’t taste like much of anything. Rubbery and chewy on the outside, crunchy on the inside (if you insist on eating the bones). I don’t really understand what people see in them.

(There’s almost no meat on a rat, btw. It’s mostly very rubbery skin stretched over a lean frame. The skin is almost tasteless, not worth bothering with.)

There were also food stands selling duck embryo, but I decided to pass on that for now. There’s a venison steak out there, with my name on it.

(I didn’t see any bats…Maybe tomorrow. I bet the wings are crunchy. 😉 )

Tien

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