the•truth•shall•set•you•free

some of the exotic (or so i thought) things i ate in taiwan:
1. 炸米血, which comes in cute little squares that look really harmless. as you wonder what the nice-sounding name means and sinks your teeth into the square, you feel gooey stuff meet your tongue. its soft, but not much taste, coz the BBQ sauce covers all traces of the taste of B*L*O*O*D. yes, 炸米血 is pig's blood.
2. 七里香：雨下整夜，我的爱溢出好像雨水... nope, 七里香 is not the jay chou song that we all can sing. as nice-sounding as it may be, its actually chicken ass. by now, you shld realize that nice-sounding food names usually arent that palatable after all, at least to most pple. with all due credit, however, this item is actually quite tasty, juz like normal chicken meat, juz that its very small, as small as... erm.. a chicken ass.
3. 大饼包小饼： this one is interesting. it literally is wat its name suggests. the innermost layer is a biscuit that is deep-fried like popiahs, with certain ingredients inside which, for the life of me, i cldnt make taste of. this is then wrapped in a popiah skin, but not before its spread with whichever flavour you want. (you can choose either sweet or savoury; and they have an array of flavours like yam, pork floss, coconut, peanut, sesame, etc...) the popiah skin is then wrapped ard the innermost biscuit like how you wld a Subway sandwich. i guess its juz the taiwan equivalent of crepes.
4. 豪大鸡扒: its juz very very very big chicken cutlet with lots of salt and chilli powder (and i suspect msg, coz the powders taste very suspiciously like those minuscule packets you get in maggie noodles, or mamee, for that matter) POWDERFUL.
5. 铁蛋: for the linguistically-challenged, this means metal eggs, literally. well, i guess it is so named coz its really hard on the outside, tho everything else tastes exactly like a normal egg. well, i bought 3 packs back, if you want, drop me a line.
6. 臭豆腐. 顾名思义.
7. mashed ice + ice-cream + pudding + coco pops + strawberry = S*H*I*O*K
8. there waz also some snake stuff, but we din try. not that we did not dare to, but we juz din want to. now there's a whole world of difference there. anyway, i tried snake meat prior to this. it tastes rubber. i can think of 1 friend who wouldnt like it - he doesnt like rubbery-tasting stuff - his name starts with S...