chai knees 10/12/09

tonight was a big night for me. i expanded my culinary horizons for the first time in at least a few days by eating food that wasn't burritos or pizza. i had chinese food and documented the whole thing:

this is "intestine soup" because that's what i saw when i looked into the bowl and that's what i wanted to evacuate after eating it.

in some parts of the world, these are called potstickers. in my part of the world, these are called tongue-burning heart stoppers. never mind that the amount of oil used to fry these makes potsticking absolutely impossible, but the doughy crevices are perfect hiding places for small puddles of 200-degree oil.

this goes by the menu name "veggie hunan chicken," but i call it "sphincter scorcher." you'll notice that the visible chilies outnumber the chicken pieces and you will not notice the chili nest hiding below the chicken pieces.

this is a szechwan delicacy known as dump noodles.

they are named for the place where their ingredients come from and also the place where i intend on burying the body of the person who came up with this recipe.

this dish, with its thick, greasy nature is lovingly referred to as dago eggplant. it's the national dish of hell.

these are catfish, thusly named because some idiot thought these fish looked like garfield. i did not eat them.

i can't wait for my next culinary adventure.