Last night featured a trip to a Seafood restaurant near Temple Street in Jordon (an area in Kowloon, the part of Hong Kong attached to mainland China). Although the meal featured a vast array of seafoods, the most interesting critter on the menu is the Mantis Shrimp. This creature looks like a cross breed between a shrimp, a lobster, a praying mantis, and a demon.
Despite this somewhat horrific appearance, they taste pretty much just like lobster.
After the dinner some of the crew migrated to a place called Ned Kelly's for some Jazz and drinks. We ended up getting a few pitchers of Blackthorne cider, which is a quite dry cider, but still palatable. There was a small jazz group playing there, and the sax player was decent but the singer not so much. Still, we danced in the extremely small aisles, to the seeming delight of the band and the other patrons.
I guess that this blog is probably also going to become a food blog, as food is also one of my great loves in this world: music, dance, food.
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Is that the same shrimp that we had when we were in HK together? When they brought that on on the table, I wasn't quite sure who is supposed to eat who...
ReplyDeleteYep, the same ones. Scary but tasty.
ReplyDeletebtw, you are supposed to eat them...don't get it backwards.
If the evil shrimp tastes like lobster you know I'm interested! Do you remember how sick we felt after eating a lot of lobster two nights in a row when we were in Mass. & Maine. Thanks for the itinerary...very helpful.
ReplyDeleteWell, you see.. if you are that tasty, you have to be at least this much scary or ugly, otherwise you will not survive for very long. There could have been creatures on the earth that are very yummy and also very yummy looking, but we don't see them because they're extinct by now.
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