Sunday, April 7, 2013

Husband and wife lung...


Seriously, this was on the menu last night at the restaurant we ate dinner.  Husband and wife lung, I'm not sure we will ever be trying this.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about this dish:
Fuqi feipian (Chinese夫妻肺片pinyinfūqī fèipiàn; literally "sliced lung by the married couple") is a popular Sichuan dish, served cold or at room temperature, which is made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal. Common ingredients in the modern version include beef heart, tongue and tripe, and a generous amount of various spices, including Szechuan peppercorns. True to its Sichuan roots, the desired taste should be both spicy and mouth-numbing. Despite its name, actual lung is rarely used.

If you can get past the first page of the menu which also includes chicken feet, offal, the lung and some other liver/kidney type dishes the rest of the food is delicious!   The place is called Bei Jiang and includes a lot of lamb dishes mixed with what we think are traditional Chinese dishes.
We ordered quite a lot of dishes including lettuce with catsup(a peanut type sauce that is actually quite delicious and resembles nothing of what we know as catsup), lotus root, eggplant, string beans, spicy minced lamb with shells, spicy cabbage with beef, and some sweet bread.  Everything was delicious and we only ate about 1/2 of what we ordered.  The good news is they let you take home what you don't eat.





You can tell Bill is assimilating into Chinese culture as he's now eating bread with chopsticks!


1 comment:

  1. OMG girl! This is SO funny! Your whole experience is just amazing! Glad you are getting so many photos!

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