Shit Chinese People Eat: Chicken Brain

The only things we can't eat from the air, land, and sea
are planes, cars, and boats.

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So to continue on from last week's discussion, one edible part of a chicken head is the brain. Here's the back of the head with an incision already made into the skull.

When the head has been cooked for a while, the whole bone structure of the head becomes fairly soft so it's easy to peel away parts of the skull, like so:

Easily confused with a mind-controlling alien blob. Yup.

I managed to extract the brain completely intact with the brain stem:

At a certain angle it could look like a monkey's butt.

But it falls apart when I try to pick it up with chopsticks. Like it just naturally parts into left brain, right brain, and brain stem:

Chicken brain tastes as disgusting as it looks. I was expecting it to taste like oysters because it felt mushy but firm when I took it out.

But it tasted very strongly of blood and had the consistency of soft boogers, like the hard yellow ones that have been stewed in snot so that it ends up kind of squishy.

No amount of sauce, dipping or otherwise, is going to block the metallic and tangy bitter taste when the brain hits the back of the tongue. My brain told me not to swallow it, but I did anyway. Fuck, it was traumatizing and I used to fucking like this stuff?!

Oh, God. Seriously, the things I do for this blog.

Don't eat this unless it's life or death and chicken brain is the only available protein that will keep you alive. In case your friends ever wonder what chicken brian taste like, just tell them this little formula:

Brain = Blood + Boogers