Saturday, November 3, 2007

Asian food festival

I do enjoy the fall, in the US and in Asia. Here, each October brings a "beautiful food festival" where you can sample any kind of meat-on-a-stick and a variety of other exotic foods. OK, not all of them are exotic, because they had cotton candy, too! About 10 days ago, 5 of us headed there for a night of "eat-at-your-own-risk" fun. By the end of the night, the 5 of us (including Grace) downed deer, ostrich, alligator and shark meat, cotton candy, sesame bread, milk tea, and fruit crepes. Almost as healthy as a night at the state fair! At least I brought some carrot sticks to redeem some nutritional value for Grace. We passed on things such as stinky tofu (yes, real name) and fried insects. And, happy to say, no one got sick.

This guy was so proud of his sesame flat bread.

Keeping the meat really fresh
These guys did a fun dance while trying to sell their barbecued squid-on-a-stick
The pineapple crepes were great!
Kevin's theory is that anything tastes better on a stick (or fried)...He's quite the carnivore.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can almost smell the smells! :) We can hardly wait to be with you again, but hey!--where are the pictures of Grace? Love, Granna

Anonymous said...

Sounds yummy! Those sesame flat breads make for easy pizza's!

kristen lewis said...

You are so much braver than I am. There are some things that just never sound yummy- stick or no stick!

Love you!

ryan said...

Brigitte,
Don't know if you even remember but this is Ryan Polk. I was messing around my email and found one from Amy Goodson that had a link to the blog...so I checked it out.
Great to see and read what is going on with you guys and would love to hear more. You can email me sometime at ryanpolk@hotmail.com.

Take care,
Ryan