In an article published on the BBC website about five years ago, the reporter went to a restaurant in Beijing that specialized in penis. With vivid descriptions, the article describes how penis is served and who eats it. Since I am very interested in food, this article retained a place in my mind. Now that I am in Beijing, I thought that there would be no better time than to follow in the reporter’s footsteps and dine on dick.
Despite sounding truly repulsive, many people that I know were also interested in tasting the delights of penis. I managed to get seven people to join me on this culinary adventure, including two girls!
The restaurant was quite small and did not have a main dining room, but rather four private rooms. Besides our room, there was one room filled with middle-aged Chinese men. No doubt they were interested in the reputed aphrodisiac qualities of penis.
To my great disappointment, only four of us ate anything. The others were merely curious and wanted a look. Our meal began with a cold dish of bull and sheep penis with a delightful vinegary sauce. The bull penis was quite meaty, but the sheep penis had been made into a headcheese type thing and sliced, and was truly repulsive.
Our second course was sheep penis kebabs. It was presented beautifully with a wax sculpture to accompany the dicks. The penises had been sliced in half and lovingly threaded along skewers. Despite reservations, I took a bite and tasted something tough, chewy and disgusting. It was almost gooey like some sort of perverse candy. I nearly gagged on the second bite. By that point everyone had had enough, so we left satisfied that we had tried one of China’s greatest global culinary contributions.
Saturday 15 May 2010
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