Delectible Delights

The latest menu...”Bird in a Blender”. We decided to be adventurous and order “Pheasant Cooked Two Ways”. Sounded fairly benign. We spent the next 30 minutes sorting through cubes of bone, beak, organs and feet trying to find something edible. (From the picture you can see we found its head and put it back together...kind of like a puzzle.) The meal was redeemed when we ordered the “Taro”. If you read “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” (Karen), there is a wonderful description of it. It is something soft and light purple, a root of potato consistency, fried to a very hot temperature then dipped in melted sugar. The cubes are thrown into cool water and the sugar hardens. When you bite into it, it has a hard crunchy shell with a soft doughy inside.