Shit Chinese People Eat: Fallopian Tubes

The only things we can't eat from the air, land, and sea

are planes, cars, and boats.

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Remember how I told you that Taiwan isn't Jew-friendly when it comes to food? Well, it's because we shit like this:

What in the nine hells is that thing?! The fallopian tubes of a sow and the necks of geese.

While we were about to finish our meal at a local eatery, one of the cooks/servers brought out from the back this tub of off-white coloured mass of shit, and oh, so casually plopped it down on the table next us. I thought they were a tub of pig intestines; however, I know that intestines are just one long tube of fat and don't actually retain a coiled shape outside of the body. Intrigued, I asked my mom what it was. She didn't know so she asked the server. Then the server told us in Mandarin what they were.

My Mandarin is quite bad so I didn't understand what the server had said and my mom kindly explained in simple Mandarin terms that they were the tube that baby eggs travelled in from the ovaries to the uterus. The English phrase sprang to mind (fallopian tube) and I Googled it to make sure I got it right.

I couldn't keep the manic glee of discovering some new thing that shouldn't-be-food-but-oh-my-god-it-is off of my face and my mom ordered a plate for me. I looked pointedly at our bowls of noodles, and the two large plates of veggies and goose meat.

"We're never going to finish this, nevermind the extra plate," I told her.

She said, "That's okay, we'll just get the rest packed up to go." She grinned, "I want to try the dish too."

I grinned back.

I know it's only February, but hand the woman The Best Mom of the Year Award already (just like every year before, pshaw). I've always wondered where I got my streak of adventurous eating from and now I know.

When the dish arrived, it looked like this:

Yes, it's edible. Fallopian tubes are fucking delicious actually.

So damned pretty and fucking delicious. It was perfectly cooked, not too chewy and not too mushy. The texture is one-of-a-kind, somewhere between pig intestines and jellyfish; soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside. There was an underlying scent of pork, but it was clean and not as heavy as it would be in pig fat or intestines.

Is it nutritional? Maybe, but most likely not since all internal organs are high in cholestrol. In any case, fallopian tubes are now categorized under my list of yummy foods. You should definitely try it.