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Looks gross, but it is.

April 14, 2008 at 9:21 am · Filed under Food

(A guest post from Mike Tong, world traveler.)

Lamb bone boiled in dan gway isn’t mainly for meat. Taiwanese suck out the marrow with a straw.

Taste that creamy goodness.

8 Comments »

  jenna wrote @ April 14, 2008 at 10:47 am

i hate you for posting this. gross.

  Charles Jannace wrote @ April 14, 2008 at 11:05 am

Perhaps not so gross. I’m Italian-American (3d generation). We have a popular dish called Osso Buco (veal shanks). Typically, the shank is presented on the dish standing up and the marrow is soft. We don’t suck it out with a straw but we spoon it out (if large enough) or use a fork to pick it out. It’s considered a delicacy. I always eat in first. I’ve never tried lamb bone marrow but we eat lamb regularly so I may give it a shot next time we cook a leg.

  andrea wrote @ April 14, 2008 at 11:42 am

Mike — I thought you said the food there would be good…

  Ben wrote @ April 14, 2008 at 11:48 am

I don’t see what’s so gross here. Bone marrow is extremely good eats.

  stephanie wrote @ April 14, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Oh my! Please tell me we aren’t eating that in China!

  Erin wrote @ April 14, 2008 at 11:50 pm

I feel less Asian with your fam on another continent. And because I cannot sit at the table eating marrow with you.

  Mike Tong wrote @ April 15, 2008 at 9:40 am

Jenna, Andrea and Steph: It really is quite tasty. I had four shanks that night.

Charles and Ben: I have to admit that I didn’t have five cause I became a bit queasy.

Erin: You will always be a half more Asian than Whites, a half more White and Asians, and more Asian and White than half the world’s popluation. So don’t worry.

  Mike Tong wrote @ April 15, 2008 at 9:42 am

Correction: than, not and.

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