How did we miss this when writing about the Cabbages & Condoms restaurant on Wednesday?
Our expose on the Top 10 Weirdest Restaurants inexplicably and unknowingly left one classic Asian haute cuisine establishment out of the running: Guo-li-zhuang, courtesy of our kooky friends in China. Maybe the list's authors were unable to stomach-- no pun intended-- a restaurant where diners snack on chewy weiners of the non-hot dog variety.
The Times of London has a great and entirely uncomfortable story about some poor bastards who deigned to eat at this vile place. Among the highlights so you don't have to click that link:
- The chef "enters holding aloft an eye-wateringly large yak’s
knob. It’s about 45cm long, but thin, so thin. It’s been boiled gently and -
I can’t believe I’m writing this - peeled, except for a hunk of foreskin
still clinging on to the end. He cuts the thing in half lengthways with a
pair of scissors."
- The meal, which can run you up to 250 British pounds for a fancy dingaling, "costs an average of two months’ wages
for a dumpling-factory worker." Not that even the craziest working-class Chinese person would be caught dead in this place. It's reserved mainly for dignitaries and dumb newspaper reporters with money to burn.
- "We try the water-buffalo penis first, in thin shavings. It started long and
thin..." Uhhh....
- They try the "deer-penis juice, which I’m delighted to
say is the vilest concoction I’ve ever had the privilege to imbibe."
They eat bull, goat, and-- you stereotyping bastards saw it coming-- dog penis. They somehow lived to tell the tale under their real names. And both the diner and his companion speculate on whether this could work for, um, female genitals.
“Don’t be insane,” she says. Then she remembers that she’s heard of a dish of
donkey vulva, but she’s not sure where. She thinks it’s a disgusting idea.
Barf more here.
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