Funky Frog Food

I've just got back from dinner with my students and had an experience that has to be shared.

These students, over the past month, have taken great pleasure in shouting me "2nd dinner" after class. They are always ordering stuff they think will make my stomach turn.

So far I have consistently disappointed them, by eating what ever they put in front of me.

The first week it was pig's blood pudding. That was nothing, it tastes a bit like liver.

Photo from Jas

The next week it was "four gods soup". Apparently all four gods take the form of intestines. Bah humbug, I had plenty of that in Thailand. They say it's good for you but it tastes as good as it sounds.

It was served as a side dish to a collection of delicacies including pig skin. I'm quite fond of pig skin - usually roasted and glazed with brown sugar; also known as "crackling". This pig skin however, seemed to have been boiled and reminded me of undercooked crackling. It was fine, the little hairs threw me a little though.

This week though it was frog. The direct translation from Taiwanese is "field chicken" which is pretty accurate, it tasted a lot like chicken.

It was just looking at the leg, dangling from the end of my chopsticks, that made me feel a bit cautious. All I could think of was "Kermit the Frog". The skin had this amazing colour: black with grey spots.

It was so... frog like.
You get that I suppose.

Anyway, it was another string to my culinary bow.
You never know until you give it a go.

Well, I have,
and if you don't want to:
the answer is - it tastes like chicken.

Quite tasty really.


Photo from here